CURRENT MISSION Back in Australia after six years of adventures living, working and studying in Europe, Cambodia and the United States. Viewing Australia with fresh eyes, but admittedly still itchy feet :) The below is now out of date, but I'll leave it there til I have time to update it! ABOUT ME In D.C. you'll find me biking the monuments, scouring the farmers markets and juggling the best of D.C's arts and culture on the cheap with my Masters study. Its a long way from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where my couch surfing odyssey started last year during a year long stint doing human rights work and playing couch surfing tour guide in my spare time. D.C. may not be as sweaty, exotic or chaotic as South East Asia, but its certainly still a lot of fun! For background purposes I should say that I was born in (and love) Sydney, but I've also had a stab at exploring many other parts of the world. I've done exchange studies in Sweden during uni, done the 'Australian living in London' thing for a while and traveled pretty extensively throughout South America, Europe and Asia, quite a bit of it as solo traveler. In 2009 year after a brief stint in a nice, respectful, safe job as a graduate lawyer in big Sydney law firm (which I couldn't stand), I decided to throw caution to the wind and arranged a year's volunteer position living and working in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with a legal education organisation. There was no way from there I could head back to regular Sydney legal life, so I pulled together an application and ended up here at Georgetown University studying International Law. You should come and check it out here - to be honest I was never really dreaming of America as the next destination on my to-do list, but I'm absolutely loving this place! PHILOSOPHY Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever- Mahatma Ghandi