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Overview

  • 23 references 11 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Indonesian
  • 30, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • Writer
  • All sorts
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Enjoying not really having a mission

ABOUT ME

I love to travel and try new things. I've moved so many times in my life that I honestly cannot count them.

I am quite the festival enthusiast I guess, and have been ridiculously lucky enough to work at plenty around Australia and the UK and see and work with some absolutely unbelievable artists. Pretty spesh. I've met some of my now closest friends at festivals just by making eye contact during a crazy dance.

I just got back to Australia after travelling and living in the UK and Europe for the past few years and have my own business where I interview musicians from all over the world.

I live by the beach with three other beautiful women.

PHILOSOPHY

"I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another, nor ask another to live for mine."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfin'... Hostin'... Story tellin'... the lot

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had some great experiences with CouchSurfing.

Interests

Late nights with great people.
Hot salty water.
Buskers.
Meeting new people.
Hip-hop.
Art.
Sharing.
Live music.
Festivals.
Diving.
The cafe lifestyle.
Books and shiz.
Spontaneous jam sessions.
Adventures.
Feeling unique...

  • arts
  • books
  • festivals
  • dancing
  • traveling
  • music
  • live music
  • hiking
  • scuba diving
  • rock climbing
  • business
  • hitchhiking
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

All of the music (mostly hip hop)

Aldous Huxley, Irvine Welsh, Paulo Coelho, George Orwell, Guy Debord, Oscar Wilde, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Hunter S. Thompson, Anthony Burgess...

Hal Ashby, Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, Luc Besson, Sean Penn, Stanley Kubrik, Guy Ritchie...

Harold and Maude, Garden State, Into the Wild, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Angel-A, Fear and Loathing, Leon: the Professional, 12 Monkeys, Snatch, Amelie... etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

There are many.

However, I've noticed that it really is the small and simple things that make an impact upon us; like sleeping on the roof with a good friend, dancing through the streets, having a fire bath under the stars, climbing a volcano in the dead of night, finding shelter in the slums of bizarre cities, hitch-hiking across vast lands...

And I'm sure there are many poignant moments to come.

Teach, Learn, Share

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Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Samoa, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Hungary, Poland, United Kingdom

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