CURRENT MISSION

Writing a book :)

ABOUT ME

I write, read, enjoy learning new things, meeting new people and having good conversations. I used to teach children but am concentrating on writing more and hopefully, publishing something in the near future.

PHILOSOPHY

These things are best discussed in a good conversation, I reckon.

Dlaczego jestem na Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Host and surf

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed

Zainteresowania

Creative writing, stories and storytelling, teaching, education, drawing, reading, urban planning, walking/hiking. I enjoy learning new things and geek-out from time to time haha.

• writing
• books
• education
• dining
• coffee
• walking
• shopping
• reading
• blogging
• drawing
• cycling
• hiking
• volleyball
• teaching
• law
• tourism

Muzyka, filmy i książki

Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Alasdair Gray), American Gods (Neil Gaiman), Room (Emma Donoghue),The Open Road (Pico Iyer), Demian (Herman Hesse), The Road (Cormac McCarthy), Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card), Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Wells Tower), Bless Me, Ultima (Rudolfo Anaya), The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Sherman Alexie), The Bartimaeus Trilogy (Jonathan Stroud), The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks), The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein), The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare(G.K. Chesterton), The Hunger Games Trilogy(Suzanne Collins), Paul Goodman.

A bit of everything, really. Current music rotation: TĀLĀ, Ibeyi, Balmorhea, ODESZA, Fatima Al Qadiri, M83, Basenji, Ben Khan, VV Brown, Asgeir Trausti, Years and Years, Sigur Ros, Beyonce, Solange, Mykki Blanco, The Beach Boys, Bjork, Coconut Records, early Destiny's Child, Lauryn Hill, Raury.

Movie-wise, I like watching a lot of different things. Some stuff I like: Monsters, District 9, Mean Girls (Modern classic. You won't be able to convince me otherwise haha), Dogtooth (It's bizarre. So bizarre), Constantine, Pan's Labyrinth, Spirited Away, Big Trouble in Little China, Home Alone 1 and 2, E.T., and most movies directed by Tarsem Singh (for visual goodness).

Jedna niesamowita rzecz, którą zrobiłem(-am)

When I was in Siem Reap, Cambodia, I took a wrong turn at Angkor Wat and found a village where the locals were playing Volleyball. I played Volleyball for years but hadn't in a while, so I was excited about this find! Fortunately, the guys playing let me join in and I ended up playing for hours. I made quick friends with one of the players who goes by the nickname of James Bond. (He earned this moniker because the registration number of his coffee shop at Angkor Wat is 007.) In the afternoon, it started raining pretty hard so James Bond invited me to stay for dinner and hang out at his house until the rain stopped and I could bike home. So, I spent the night drawing pictures with his kids, eating cool local food and talking to him and his brother-in-law 'Tommy Crazy Driver' (see blog post link below for explanation) about the realities of poverty in Cambodia, how tourism affects this, and about how poor Cambodians could improve their situation. It felt good to engage with people in this way; to engage with people in a way that transcends that tourist-local divide. Well, I prefer these types of experiences to more surface ones anyway, but each and every time I feel good to have shared something of myself and it be reciprocated.

I remember thinking afterwards that this experience was, for me, far more worthwhile than seeing temples. I'm glad I chose not to turn my bike around and return to the road I originally planned on taking that day.

http://stufftodddoes.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/bond-james-bond/

Kraje, w których byłem(-am)

Australia, Cambodia, England, Iceland, India, Laos, Samoa, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam