Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Leaving imprints on sofas, leaving money down the back of them, welcoming weary travellers, showing them around, washing their socks. The world will eventually realise that all their doors could be open.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Always a pleasure

Interests

They change daily.

• dining
• reading
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• surfing
• swimming
• journalism
• languages
• community
• bread
• environmentalism
• vegan cooking
• philosphy

Music, Movies, and Books

1900, Amores Peros, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Quatre-Cents Coups, Jules et Jim, Synedoche New York, Tangerine, Edge of Heaven, Nothing But a Man.

Island-Aldous Huxley. Bonfire of the Vanities -Tom Wolfe. Catch 22 -Joseph Heller. Doris Lessing, Martin Amis, Iris Murdoch, Hemingway, Monica Ali, Steinbeck, John Williams, Borges, Orhan Pamuk.

Kate Bush, Nick Drake, The Slits, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Susumo Yokota, Miriam Makeba, Ani DiFranco, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Stevie Wonder, Nas, Tribe Called Quest, De la Soul, Bille Holiday, Freddie Hubbard Charlie Parker, Coumba Gawlo, Jimmy Cliff....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Keeping a watermelon intact on a rocky journey from Alexandria to Jerusalem.

Teach, Learn, Share

English, French. Will learn anyting the host can teach.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Bad orgigami, 1 magic trick, the misery of British politics, music.

Countries I’ve Visited

Barbados, Egypt, France, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Madagascar, Malaysia, Morocco, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, Palestine, United Kingdom

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