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Windermere, England, United Kingdom
@gemmascugnizza
Member since 2009
CURRENT MISSION Learning heritage lime plastering ABOUT ME Vegetarian, anarchist, feminist, I was in a samba band, co-founded Ipswich's Food Co-op and Random Camel Housing Co-op, was a member of Transition Towns and Radical Routes, enjoy baking, cooking, screen-printing, recycling materials and growing food. I dance tango, salsa, and freely, am learning to build using natural sustainable materials, and want to focus on developing my own art, currently drawing portraits then printing them on found t shirts. PHILOSOPHY To be part of the loop
Interested in Adventure Sports
Fluent in English
Learning German
1 Vouch
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Not very much at the mo- I'm always in temporary accommodation travelling around with my job but i might be in this place for a while, this summer perhaps. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE My household stayed at Polish and Indonesian band members houses whilst on tour and i regularly stayed with other housing co-ops when we're on Radical Routes business, and now im abroad ive used CS in Turkey, Israel, Palestine, Greece Italy and beyond! I love couchsurfing!
Music, Movies, and Books
Juno, broke back mountain, breakfast on Pluto, most HBO TV inc firefly n true blood, fantasia, obscure foreign independent art house movies ( I volunteered at my local film theatre a lot!) Joan Barefoot & other womens press sci fi, Jean auels clan of the cave bear ( I want to be those characters In that age) Story of the Stone, gone to soldiers by Marge piercy, Georges perec, 52 flowers that shook my world. tuneyards, Tracy Chapman - gimme one reason and change, be good Tanya's, english folk and alt/ new folk, samba, bata of Cuban santerria, soulful bluesy divas, Tina turner, chanting, dittys, tom waits, Ivor cutler, slim gaillard, skunk anansie, Alanis, billy Myers...
One Amazing Thing I've Done
The Jordan valley at sunset
Teach, Learn, Share
Macrame, t shirt weaving, knitting, sewing, printing, hitchhiking cycling cooking with vegan ingredients...building with natural materials, gardening, singing, dancing!
What I Can Share With Hosts
My voice, earth building skills including sweatlodge in your garden, knitting, motivation to gout and boogie, deep and meaningfuls, cocounselling
My Interests
I can be quiet as well as animated, a grubby urchin or glamorous. I listen more than i talk, mostly. Im exploring love on the road, i love to be in love. Am happiest outdoors in a natural environment, living modestly within the earths resources.
