CURRENT MISSION

to speak English (Australia)

ABOUT ME

I grew up in Sydney, and 200 years later, I am back in London to see how it started.

PHILOSOPHY

adapt.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

specifically.

Interests

Learning about people, touching their noses, hearing their stories, how they interact with eachother, where they came from, where we all came from, and where we are all going. I like swinging on vines in ze jungle; ze ocean; ze moon; caves; falling asleep to the radio and having really strange dreams (in mandarin, especially); falling asleep and waking up on a different planet; broken guitars; barbara streisand album covers; the zoo; frisbee; french accents; french vanilla ice-cream; smell of eucalyptus; smelling like a camp fire (a pine wood one, especially); catching bees and throwing them in spider webs; reading people's minds; decisions that make themselves, reading TIME magazine on aeroplanes; massages; ninja turtles, melodicas; harmonicas; hammocks; hot springs; bean bags; beards (I would grow one if i could); collective nouns; fake moustaches; smiles; spectacles; space lego; stackhats; sand dunes; garden gnomes; tiramisu; ticket stubs; postcards; stencils; pencils; public art; panda bears; spiral stairs; sweet chilli sauce; arms; walking in warm rain; funny foreign characters on funny foreign keyboards like this one öööö; green sneakers; snow; peanut m&m's; ferrero roche; folk festivals; trees that look like old men; old men that look like trees; people I've never met before; pictionary; airports; trampolines; kookaburras; atlases; my video camera; cow poo (it bakes on top and stays wet and smelly underneath, how cool is that!); waterslides; late night bike rides; red hats; rainbow socks; Rubens; Monet; rhodesian ridgebacks; skateboards; snorkels; tapirs; lemurs; winter & summer (equally); company & solitude (equally)

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• arts
• festivals
• walking
• gardening
• reading
• cycling
• camping

Music, Movies, and Books

"Next day when I felt better, I was on the beach sunbathing and suddenly a poem popped into my head. It started out 'I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe, I will tell you things at random' and it went on about how the quality of randomness, spontaneity, surprise, unexpectedness and irrationality in our lives is a very precious thing. And if you suppress that to have a nice orderly life, you kill off what's most important. Whereas in the Penguin Cafe your unconscious can just be. It's acceptable there, and that's how everybody is. There is an acceptance there that has to do with living the present with no fear in ourselves."

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

dinosaurs

Countries I’ve Visited

Nauru

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chad, United Kingdom

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