CURRENT MISSION get through finals then get to NYC! ABOUT ME I'm a student of Otago University (Dunedin, NZ) on exchange at U of T in Toronto. Will finish my Zoology and Anthropology Degrees in December and plan to travel in U.K and Europe next year before returning home in September (2006). I'm on a tiny budget so am looking forward to many a successful couchsurf in the coming months! I don't smoke, do drink, and rather than squash a spider, I will pick it up and throw it out the door. Looking forward to seeing the old buildings of Europe. Underground and underwater structures fascinate me. And I love a good maze. PHILOSOPHY I don't have a defined personal philosophy, but I guess I believe "It will all work out in the end"... Karma perhaps?
Interested in Bars
Interested in Fitness
Fluent in English
Learning Japanese
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE nothing as yet via couchsurfing.com but a mechanic once kindly let my friends and I stay in his workshop (we slept on sun-loungers between car wrecks) when our car broke down 750kms from home!
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: The Secret Garden, Cube, Strictly Ballroom, Whale Rider, In My Father's Den, The Breakfast Club, The Heathers, Pride & Predjudice (BBC version!, Amelie, GrizzlyMan, Porker Stalker, Napolean Dynamite, Labyrinth... Books: Blubeard's Egg, Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood, To Kill a Mockingbird (is that too cliche or what?!), A Handmaid's Tale, Trixie Beldens, I Capture the Castle, The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Mutants (a history of the human genome) etc... Music: Nina Simone, Zero 7, Ben Harper, Miles Davis, Mamas & Papas, Gypsy Kings, Paul Simon, Trinity Roots, Fat Freddy's Drop, Salmonella Dub, The Beatles, Gomez, Fiona Apple, Bic Runga, and various others...
One Amazing Thing I've Done
watching phosphorescent trails of dolphins swimming in our bow-wave during a night-sail one evening; they looked like shooting stars!
My Interests
Travelling/exploring, beaches, history, archaeology, caves, sailing, kayaking - being on the water in general, isolated places, old places, zoology, jazz, adventure, everything!
