I'm Sinead, a Canadian writer who loves nature. I'm currently living in Glenorchy, Otago babysitting, gardening and creating in paradise. Come end of November my New Zealand visa will expire and I'd like to spend my Kiwi days hiking during the day and read the classics by a fire at night.

I'm bubbly but I quite enjoy my time to reflect. I love people and animals, I love cooking and baking equally, though baking gluten-free of late has proved a worthy challenge. I'm a pseudo-intellect, half-introverted half-extroverted. I love great songwriters like Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison; I’ve been told my songs sometimes sound like a smoky glass of wine. I like to ride my bike and move my body. I'll be turning 27 at the end of May, hoping to make the next quarter century of my life a healthy and meaningful one by cultivating mindful habits and surrounding myself with loving people. I’m a bit of a hippie.

Although I’ve studied quite a bit in school, I’m now looking to self-education in the areas of naturopathy, meditation and poetry. I also have a growing interest in plants and their medicinal properties, most recently in the power of tea, a delicious and warming edification to say the least. I hope to further my understanding of food and drink by doing some organic farm work, cooking for my new and old family and sharing a good glass of whiskey, wine or something entirely new.

My friends call me “on-the-verge-vegetarian,” as my conscience seemingly swirls my stomach on the rare occasion I eat meat. Apparently, it’s just a matter of time. I am grain and sugar free at the moment, a feat that wavers from week to week.

I’m currently a nanny; I adore children and am unafraid to get my hands dirty. That said, I’ve also acquired a taste for having things neat and tidy so I can function when I come home. I love gardening and have had a ball planting veggies and herbs here in Glenorchy, though it was a really weird season weather wise.

Let me know if you're interested in having someone like me come live with you. If so, I'd love to have a tea and chat sometime.

Best,
Sinead

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

I've been hitchhiking around the country and find that the random meeting of people just makes my life better. So why not, eh?

Couchsurfing is putting trust out into the world, letting other people guide your journey and going with the flow is the goal, right?

兴趣

Travel: every continent, every possible way
Ride: bike, snow & horses
Write: children’s books, plays & songs
Music: singing, ukulele, harmonica
Dance: Irish & spontaneous busting
Water: surf, paddleboard, canoe
Food: I like to make bellies happy
Trails: blazing my own freedom + leaving something better than I found it.

• stuff
• things
• and such

音乐、电影和书籍

Shakey Graves, Bon Iver, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Alabama Shakes, Fat Freddy's Drop, Tallest Man on Earth, Fleetwood Mac, Joni Mitchell, Arctic Monkeys, Cat Stevens, Eddie Vedder, Led Zeppelin, Mumford & Sons, Neil Young, Otis Redding... to name a small few.

Anything directed by Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino... and everything David Attenborough.

The books I read are random and that's the way I like to learn. Almost all of the books I'm currently reading are my favourite... except the ones that suck. But what I love right now:

Fantasy: Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Poetry: Allen Ginsberg Collection, Walt Whitman, & Bukowski's "On Love" collection
Play: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Children's book: Anything by Roald Dahl
Sci-Fi: Dune by Frank Herbert
Dystopian Future: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Comedy: The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared Jonas Jonasson
Random: Anything Terrence McKenna
Podcasts: Alan Watts

A book I'm struggling to finish: On the Road by Jack Kerouac

On my list to read next:

Ken Kesey's One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Steinbeck's: Tortilla Flat, Sweet Thursday, Cannery Row, The Log from the Sea of Cortez

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro

Other than that, I'm really just a bum.

教，学，和分享

Ukulele
Cooking
Singing
Gardening
Writing stories
Poetry
English

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

My love for the world.

I never quite know what form it will take.

Also chocolate, if that's your thing.

我游览过的国家

Brazil, Croatia, England, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, Tanzania, Turkey, United States, Zambia

我居住过的国家

Australia, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland