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London, England, United Kingdom
@THUNDERA
Member since 2006
CURRENT MISSION We are ordinary people seeking to carve out extraordinary lives in mundane London. We want to offer a space for community, merrymaking and relaxation. Welcome! ABOUT ME We were a collective, now we're a more conventional family. We've got these little surfers who seem to have taken up permanent residence. But we still have a desire to open our door, to offer hospitality, to meet new and past people, to share space with those who pass through. We're not professionals but it touches something in us and that's why we do it. PHILOSOPHY 'Welcome to the irresistible revolution, a new and ancient way of life that is so attractive, who would settle for anything else? The revolution begins inside each of us, and through little acts of love, it will take over the world.' (Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution)
Interested in Classical
Fluent in English
Learning Greek (modern)
36 Vouches
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING We host, we pop along to the events we can make, we have the occasional meal here, and we benefit from the generosity of strangers on the road. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE From a ready apple pie on the table in Paris from Mme Dussable to Christmas in a New York Thai restaurant with a wonderful opera singer to ice-hockey and Wawa's in D-town. Drawbridge down. :-)
Music, Movies, and Books
Finding Nemo to American History X to The Corporation to Patch Adams to Fight Club to Crash to The Constant Gardener. Delirious? to Chris Brown to John Denver to Ludovico Einaudi to...an eclectic mix of gangsta hip-hop and children's songs. Roald Dahl to Walter Wink to William Neal to Martin Luther King to Philip Yancey to Naomi Klein to Enid Blyton to Dick King Smith.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Jaguara: shook the hand of a celebrity gardener. Ji-O: a double-decker bus. Neer-O: moved across the world for love. Tygra: Pumyra. Pumyra: completed med-school.
Teach, Learn, Share
Jaguara: for the feline feminine Ji-O: student extraordinaire Neer-O: chef a la carte Tygra: youthworker Pumyra: health superhero Bri-O: in the making And all those other little pieces of information and knowledge you never knew you had, yeah? We'd love to learn all there is to be offered: to know more about the rest of the world. We believe in sharing experiences and telling stories as a source of richness and growth. :-)
My Interests
Activism, primary school teaching, football, reflecting, backgammon, reading, seeing the sights, laughing, playing guitar, dancing, learning English, learning Swahili, anagrammatic, dancing salsa, playing squash, thinking big, dreaming local, making a difference...the list goes on.
