こんにちは。はじめまして

I am staying in Tokyo for a few months and want to explore japan and learn things the guide books don't tell me. I want to learn Japanese too and would love to share with you what I can from my countries and culture.

Things that make me feel alive: Sea, rivers, wild spaces, good books, good films, people who pop into my life serendipitously, dancing.

I was born in Namibia, have two sisters, grew up in Cape Town in the arms of a mountain and an ocean. I have been travelling for over a year now and study Neuroscience at Bristol.

The world is delicious and I am thrilled and excited to meet more of the people who have made it the way it is.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

The stories I hear about couchsurfing sound like the start of fairytales, or magical realism, or just like stories about how life should be: filled with lovely, generous people who want to learn and share and meet people. I want to be a part of this movement away from a capitalist lifestyle towards one where people share what they have and listen and communicate.
Thank you for giving my profile some attention. Stay well xxx

Interests

Reading, art, photography, abandoned building searching, Tokyo's liquid neon lights, architecture, space, stars, most sciences, music (I'm in awe of musicians, I can't play anything except a marimba), horses, all animals, dancing, hiking, clambering over rocks and up trees, swimming in large open rushing bodies of water, art galleries (i.e. playgrounds) good films.

• arts
• architecture
• dancing
• cooking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• jazz
• hiking
• swimming
• science
• rock
• techno

Music, Movies, and Books

Books necessary in life:
Ursula le Guinn
Donna Tart- A Secret History
Milan Kundera- The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Pat Barker - Regeneration Trilogy
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
George Orwell - 1984
The Name of the Rose

Music: (ever changing, but the truly good ones stay true)
Nicolas Jaar
Iggy Pop
New Order
Radiohead
Joy Division
Pokey Lafarge
Nirvana
Wytches
Death and Vanilla
Jiony
Other Lives
Temples
Arcade Fire
Marika Hackman
London Grammar
The Clash
John Grant

Movies:
American Beauty
Kings of Summer
Rear Window
Stranger in Paradise
Twin Peaks Series
The Silence of the Lambs
A Fish Called Wanda
Monty Python
Black Adder

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hike to an abandoned Yugoslavian military base.

Teach, Learn, Share

dance your heart out and eat well.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook, play good music (albeit weird music), make art for you, respect your own space and private time, write you stories and a few other things.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Tanzania, Turkey, United States, Wales, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Namibia, South Africa, United States