HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING running all over glasgow looking for french cheese to make tartiflette, watching my flatmate convince someone he has just met to cut his hair, consuming the great american breakfast, introducing people to scottish whiskey, and scones, and haggis. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE My old flatmates and I hosted quite a few people, and it was always interesting to meet people from different places - some of my best memories of Glasgow are times we spent with couchsurfers. I've surfed some wonderful peoples couches in Germany, Spian, Belgium and France and I am immensely grateful to everyone who has helped me out when I'm far from home.

Some music I like: Teenage Fanclub, The Feelies, Velvet Underground, Astral Weeks, Crystal Stilts, The Clean, Yo La Tengo. Some books I like: Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Hesse - Steppenwolf, Joyce - Dubliners, Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea, Camus - A Happy Death, Salinger - Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters! Movies: It's a wonderful life!