CURRENT MISSION

To ssee as many cities, meet as many people, soak up as many stories and squeeze as much outta this life as possible in the time we have

ABOUT ME

There was a girl named Christina who left Australia for the first time ever in her life to see a bit of the big wide world. After three months, she ended up running out of money in Rome, Italy and was forced to take a job at a youth hostel.

There was a boy named Kevin who left Chicago, USA for a two week holiday of Italy and Spain. Upon landing in Rome, the airport lost his luggage. While waiting for it to show up, he decided to take a job at a youth hostel.

Of course it was the same hostel. They met. They lived and worked together in Rome for a year.

Now they're trying to see as much of Europe as possible before heading to Sydney to see where the rest of the story might take them...

PHILOSOPHY

To embrace uncertainty and the ridiculousness of life and humanity.
To learn more, but to be certain of less; to listen more, but to talk less.
To take time, but also to make the most of it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Looking for some kindly like-minded individuals to host us on our trip across europe and, in turn, we have two living rooms and ample couch space when we get back to Sydney to pay some of that kindness back to other travellers looking for somewhere to crash.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Amsterdam and Brussels, Summer '08

Interests

Music, music, music (all kinds), theatre, film, literature, playing the guitar, travelling, climbing to the highest point in each city to have a good look around, laughing, making other people laugh, meeting people, sharing stories, cooking, eating, learning new languages, dancing, writing, dreaming.

• writing
• literature
• dancing
• cooking
• running
• traveling
• socializing
• knitting
• music
• guitar
• rock climbing
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, there will be blood, withnail and i, punch drunk love, naked, 12 angry men, ed wood, shallow grave, the breakfast club, kiss kiss bang bang, the big lebowski, raging bull, the philadelphia story, all about eve, cool hand luke, the bicycle thieves, the grapes of wrath, alien, a clockwork orange, reservoir dogs.

books: the stranger, notes from the underground, on the road, franny and zooey, the prophet, the tao of pooh, oh the places you'll go, the elegant universe, ethan frome, jude, beckett poetry, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, siddhartha, letters to a young poet.

music: anything and everything from A to Z, including Coldplay but excluding the works of Celine Dion.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

chucked in a lucrative career to follow a dream

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach: how to play the guitar, how to tap dance, how to knit, how to say a few things in Italian, how to cook

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Fiji, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Italy, United States