2019: I have just moved to Beijing for 4 months, and am so lost and need to know things like: who can teach me Mandarin? Where can I get decent coffee?How can I make sure there's no surprise meat in my food? How can I get hold of a bicycle? How can I even use those bikeshare bikes? All the usual anxieties...

2014: I am an EFL Teacher in Melbourne since November. Pro-book, anti-exam. I am like Ian Mckaye. In that I am a human being. That is where the similarity ends. In the end I'm like you, just another human living within patriarchy.

Currently I work a regular 9-5 job Mon- Fri. I'll be free, really only in the evenings, so you'll have to be pretty independent! But hey, if you're in Melbourne, theres beaches, museums, gigs, loads of vegan food stuff. Hip bars with hip if vacuous people! So you don't wanna just sit in my gloomy house! And I can give you some 'hot tips' about where you can go!
but when I'm about, we can hang about.

If you're my guest, please eat food that is cruelty free, I.e. no animal products. (apparently some pop icon called murder and I'm impressionable enough to believe them).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Travelled around Spain, Russia, and places in Central Europe.

I like to meet new people! I'm vegan, and I hope you are something like that too.

Interests

diy music: skram, hardcore, punk, pop-punk, acoustic, indie-pop, loads.
Bird watching (extremely amateur)
Cycling. (bike thieves break hearts)
Running (on and off)
wasting time on my phone
Pilates
My job: I wanna do an MA in Education.
Feminism
Veganism
Conservation
Complaining
Playing the bass
power and privilege and discourse
Watching adventure time

Tories. I wish i could eat Tories for breakfast.

Music, Movies, and Books

Treme, Community, Parks and Rec, Friday Night Lights, 6 Feet Under, Generation Kill, The US Office, Forbrydelsen, Richard Herring,

Music-most things DIY (and the Beatles)

Books.. On January 2015, the last 3 books I read were by Philip Roth, China Mieville, and David Attenborough. I now realise I'm reading books exclusively by white men, I'm very culturally relevant.

The last 3 films I saw at the cinema were: Pride, Interstellar, Pride (twice, because it's class),

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I got detained and interviewed by the Russian border police for a few hours, and had very broken Russian conversations with someone who accused me of being a neo-nazi, as I had a small lightning bolt tattoo, which was misconstrued to be half an SS logo.

This wasn't fun at the time, and it's not really amazing, but it's a talking point?

Teach, Learn, Share

yep.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Vegan food
Hospitality
Board Games! (Catan)

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, China, New Zealand, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain

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