CURRENT MISSION

To get the best out of Vancouver and the people that I come in contact with

ABOUT ME

I have been in Vancouver for over two years. Vancouver has been so good to me but I owe an awful lot to couchsurfing in the early days.

I spent a year working for VANOC (Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games). I am now working as an event planning consultant.

I love meeting people and having productive and interesting discussion.

I'm a vegetarian and I'm happy to explain why, but I'm not preachy.

I like putting together Ikea furniture - it makes me feel like I could have been a carpenter or something.

PHILOSOPHY

I don't believe in karma, at least certainly not the western cereal box approach. I don't like the idea of doing good things so you can be rewarded with good things. I think you should do a good thing because its the right thing to do.

Everything in moderation, even moderation in moderation.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have started a new life in Vancouver, Canada and hope to meet some cool new people from around the world.

Couchsurfing saved me when I arrived. I would have been in a terrible state without it. I hope that I can be of some use to other people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurfed for a few days here and there when I first arrived in Vancouver, bouncing between couches and a hostel. I then spent a few months on a couch before finally finding full-time work and getting my own apartment.

One of my friends, who I had met through surfing on his couch, then asked me if I wanted to find a place with him and be housemates. Together we hosted many couchsurfers and met some great people.

Now that my housemate has bought his own apartment, I have my own place again and hope to be able to host a bunch more.

Interests

Human rights, cooking, sharing meals and conversation, organic (and hopefully local) ingredients, eating out, travel, music history, fitness (boxing, gym, hiking, pilates, yoga (but not so recently)), community development through participation in sport, pro sports (Australian Football, Basketball, Ice Hockey)

• human rights
• cooking
• vegetarian
• fitness
• yoga
• pilates
• traveling
• eating out
• socializing
• music
• hiking
• surfing
• sports
• basketball
• boxing
• soccer
• hockey
• australian football
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Books:
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
Reconciliation - Benazir Bhutto
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Correlli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières

Music:
Polite drum and bass, deep house, hip hop (the cool, laidback kind),

Favorite Movies (this is an older list which I haven't added to):

Idiot Box, The Lost Boys, The Prophecy, Event Horizon, In Bruges, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Devil's Advocate, Donnie Brasco, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Breakfast At Tiffanys, Haggard: The Movie, Apocalypse Now, Sonicsgate, Quadrophenia, Casablanca, Silent Hill, Top Gun, Avatar, Zeitgeist, Burn After Reading, Sleepy Hollow, Love, Honour and Obey, The Princess Bride, Vanilla Sky, The Warriors, 300

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada

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