Exploring the world and reflected in it the mind.

I was born and raised on a wildlife conservation and agriculture farm in Kenya. I schooled in Kenya, Japan and England before attending United World College of Southern Africa in Swaziland and then United World College Atlantic College in Wales. I studied the International Baccalaureate: Biology HL; Chemistry HL; Economics HL; Maths SL; English SL; Spanish SL - an overall 43/45. I read Biomedical Sciences Neuroscience at Edinburgh University and took a study year abroad in UC Berkeley where I found Ethnobotany and Shamanic medicine.

I lived in Peru for a year and left my heart and home in the Sacred Valley of Incas. I live and worked with Shamans and natural medicine. I have applied to University in Florida to study art. Art has been shown to move our emotions more than articles or scientific papers. I will go back to Peru when I'm not at uni and explore more of its beautiful Amazon rainforest. I hope to promote the importance of conservation of the rainforest - which we are cutting down 1 to 2 acres every minute. I hope to bridge the illusion of the perceived gap of efficacy between Shamanic medicine and "patent and pharmacy driven" western medicine and to make a photo-diary to put faces to issues around the world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

One misses out on the essence of places in hotels and hostels as the essence of a place is found in the people. I hope to see the beauty of what I find and not seek what beauty should be there. I enjoy meeting people and the connections one makes. The world is a reflection and a teacher of thyself.

Interests

Travelling
Learning
Great conversations or life's stories
Festivals... ROTOTOM and Rainbows !
Giving back to the earth and repairing it - as life has survived several extinctions...

• wildlife
• festivals
• traveling
• socializing
• painting
• camping
• agriculture
• biology
• chemistry
• communications
• economics
• teaching
• mathematics
• medicine
• neuroscience

Music, Movies, and Books

Trevor Hall
Perota Chingo
Rodriguez
Passenger

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

El Camino de Santiago

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Malta, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Panama, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Swaziland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Kenya, Peru, Swaziland, United Kingdom, United States