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Overview

  • 14 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Hebrew (modern)
  • 39, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • studied film and drawing at the school of art, Tasmania,...
  • educated by every single person I have met and will meet.
  • From Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Making the world a more accepting place. LGBTQI :)

ABOUT ME

I don't like putting other people in boxes, so I find it hard to do it to myself... I like waking up and being excited about the fact that I am alive. wild places. adventuring. summer. big trees. making movies which are out of left field.
Community and artistic collaboration.

PHILOSOPHY

Earth without art is just Eh.
I believe that humans have many shared qualities, desires, pleasures and sufferings. I believe that there is less than six degrees of separation and people generally enjoy sharing and understanding others.

I like listening to people and really connecting and understanding their world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have been to a few couch surfing events. I would love to show people around my town and make new friends.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've couch surfed unofficially (ie. not via the website) all around Australia. People were very welcoming, open and warm. Many times I was amazed that people could put up with us (because I was couch surfing with a group)

Interests

comics and graphic novels, bike riding, drawing, playing music, surfing, skiing, the human condition, screen printing, swimming at the beach or at the local pool, therapy, sharing home cooked meals, communicating without talking, playing games. trees.

  • arts
  • writing
  • running
  • comics
  • movies
  • traveling
  • billiards
  • drawing
  • music
  • cycling
  • surfing
  • skiing
  • swimming
  • animation
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

TV: Breaking bad. The walking dead. Orphan Black
Movies: 28days later, world war z, Brokeback Mountain, Tim Burton films, city of lost children, sleeper, the triplets of belleville, saucy french films.
I think Eddie Izzard is hilarious!

Musik: Bright Eyes, Feist, Pj Harvey, Ani DiFranco, Gotye, Death cab for cutie, Postal service, Joanna Newsom, Elliot Smith, sigur ros, cat power, Sufjan Stevens, the waifs, John Butler, red hot chili peppers, devendra bernhart, fat freddy's drop, the kill devil hills (W.A. band)
old crow medicine show.

Books: Sandman!!!!, graphic novels, All that I am, Running with the blood god, anything by Nick Hornby, Twilight series (I know... but it's vampires and warewolves!), the magic faraway tree, the little prince anything that challenges all those things we are brought up to see as norms, truth, reality, facts, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Riding my bicycle up the East coast of Australia, travelling across Northern Australia and down the West coast in a van running on waste vegetable oil.

Teach, Learn, Share

Filming, editing (video and writing), animation, life drawing. music making. Audio recording. Wierd drawing games.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United States

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