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Overview
About Me
I am a TV/documentary production manager and I love to travel. I left school in 2007 and spent 2 years traveling the med & 1 year living on Koh Phi Phi in Thailand. I then returned to Cape Town, South Africa and decided it was time to do my degree. I completed a degree in Psychology, but my love for information & travel overrode my degree & I went into documentary film-making.
I am currently based in Doha working for Qatar's leading independent film production house, but I will soon be leaving on my next adventure.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
I am planning a trip to Peru later on in the year as I am going there with a colleague to film the cultures & diversity of the Amazon Rainforest. I have always wanted to go there, and I believe that the people are amazing. I thrive in new environments & I love meeting new people. Everyone knows something that you don't, and I finding that 'something' is all part of the experience of life. Everybody love everybody.
Interests
Scuba diving, horse riding, videography, photography, video editing, travel, psychology, philosophy, science, cosmology.
- dogs
- arts
- photography
- documentaries
- dancing
- dining
- tv
- traveling
- music
- scuba diving
- psychology
- science
Music, Movies, and Books
My favourite music is electro-funk & new age jazz. I love all music actually, but especially music that has a soulful & mellow groove to it. Rock is always good too :)
My favourite series are Breaking bad, House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Game of Thrones, Vikings, Weeds.
Favourite books are 'Thinking Fast & Slow' by Daniel Kahn, 'Profit Over People' by Noam Chomsky, 'The Sock Doctrine' by Naomi Klein.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Occupation - I spent 4 weeks traveling on tour with The Rolling Stones, filming their movements for the motion feature, Sweet Summer Sun. I also work regularly on the X Factor in the UK, and when I do work there I am Sharon Osborne's 'favourite person' to leave her puppy with when we are on air.
Spare time - When I was 15 years old, I created a website that allowed people to donate to the elderly in Zimbabwe. The website was endorsed by 10 of South Africa's best known celebrities. At the time, 60% of Zimbabwean people in old age homes were being fed dog food at least twice daily. No jokes.
Teach, Learn, Share
“...and then there is the most dangerous risk of all: the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” - Randy Komisar
"Clock time is merely a method of measurement held in common by all civilized societies, and has the same kind of reality (or unreality) as the imaginary lines of latitude and longitude. To judge by the clock, the present moment is nothing but a hairline which, ideally, should have no width at all - except that it would then be invisible. If you are bewitched by the clock you will therefore have no present. “Now” will be no more than the geometrical point at which the future becomes the past. BUT if you sense and feel the world materially, you will discover that there never is, or was, or will be anything except the present. For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones — for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present." - Alan Watts
What I Can Share with Hosts
I can share stories, laughs & intrigue. I am a person who enjoys my own space away from people to recharge my batteries, but when the occasion calls for it I will be there like a bear to entertain & ensure that others are having a great time :) I am trustworthy, generous, I literally love tidying up and keeping things together, while also allowing for things to go awry if the hosts request it, haha.
Countries I’ve Visited
Botswana, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Monaco, Mozambique, Namibia, Qatar, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Countries I’ve Lived In
Mozambique, Qatar, South Africa, Thailand, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe