Scottish and big on travelling, I'm currently in South Africa (working in monkey rehabilitation) and am moving onto NZ next! New to couchsurfer, apologies for the lack of references!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm currently studying but love to take time to travel. I spent time travelling after high school and had amazing experiences meeting new people - something I know couchsurfer will allow!

Interests

• animals
• music festivals
• reading
• traveling
• hiking
• nature
• conservation

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Rock... from soft acoustic to hardcore&metal
Movies: Moulin Rouge is a must see
Books: Lolita (Nabokov) and Perfume (Sueskind) will always be two of my favourites

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I was 13 I was lucky enough to spend 10 months travelling the world along with my dad and brothers and saw countless beautiful areas, experienced new cultures and developed a love for travel

Teach, Learn, Share

There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, "What the hell is water?"

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I know that this stuff probably doesn't sound fun and breezy or grandly inspirational. What it is, so far as I can see, is the truth with a whole lot of rhetorical bullshit pared away. Obviously, you can think of it whatever you wish. But please don't dismiss it as some finger-wagging Dr. Laura sermon. None of this is about morality, or religion, or dogma, or big fancy questions of life after death. The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to thirty, or maybe fifty, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It is about simple awareness-awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: "This is water, this is water."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI - 'This is Water' full commencement speech by David Foster Wallace

What I Can Share with Hosts

An ability to drink like the German-Scot I am, and many stories of past travels... there are some strange ones...

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Germany, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom