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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
get job and house sorted!
ABOUT ME
i am a happy, silly, freethinkin kind of girl
i really enjoy travel and art and the good life in general - good food, good people, good time....
Before my travels i lived in sydney, working for an arts funding agency with dance and theatre organisations. I'm sometimes rowdy, sometimes quiet and always open to something new
PHILOSOPHY
'through every window a different view'
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Very new to this but am currently on a long trip round the world and hoping to meet with CSers along the way
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Surfing in bits and pieces around south america, the US and Europe, always up for a drink/coffee wherever i go. Can host after i get back to Australia.
Interests
I am interested in interesting things
sleeping in, art galleries, reading, walking through parks, gardens, cities, live music or theatre, film, a few drinks in a nice bar (or even a crappy bar), sometimes a dance. As they say, try anything twice...
- arts
- dancing
- dining
- coffee
- walking
- drinking
- reading
- traveling
- music
- live music
- surfing
- parks
Music, Movies, and Books
So many loves, examples:
Movies - 'Wings of Desire', 'The Godfather' films, 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Donnie Darko', Goddard's 'Breathless', 'Drop Dead Fred', 'Across the Universe'
Music - Elvis Costello, Blur, Arcade Fire, The Lucksmiths, Gomez, Guild League, Springsteen, Beatles, Dylan and any sad-sounding jazz.
Books - 'Le Grande Meaulnes' Alain-fornier, 'The Great Gatsby' F Scott Fitzgerald, 'The Gringo Trail' Mark Mann, and spy novels by John Le Carre, John Donne poetry. Currently reading 'The Open Veins of Latin America' by Eduardo Galeano
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
The Sun and Moon pyramids in Mexico are a favourite, also wandering the streets of big cities like london, berlin, paris.
Teach, Learn, Share
I can help anyone learning english, learning about australia, discussing any kind of art
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam
Countries I’ve Lived In
Australia, Greece, United Kingdom
Old School Badges
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