CURRENT MISSION

Just to be happy, and keep on travelling.

PHILOSOPHY

Just be happy. I personally have grown up in a beautiful area, have great friends, i'm healthy, have had free education and health care, have a great family and I have the ability to travel and see the world - so if *anything* bad happens in my life, there is *no point* in moaning about it - because LOOK at what we have got!!

You create your own reality.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I havn't had any couchsurfing experience- yet.

Interests

Happiness, the power of the mind, Psychology, sociology, Politics, quirkiness, quirky things that make people smile (Amelie stylie), indiosyncracies, Good conversation, numbers, nature, stars, trees, insects, birds, the sea, forests, sunsets, science, buddhism, meditation, the universe, jazz, 1920's-1950's jazz, Iceland, Bjork, South America, Svalbard, Greenland, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, philosophy, books, current affairs, Radio 4, travelling, the environment, Geology, friends, red wine, good food, cheese, olives, the blues, walking, talking, music, seizing the moment, Random Acts Of Kindness, "JOIN ME" - www.joinme.info, being nice to others, charity work, Learning, and developing myself.

• birds
• insects
• books
• education
• environment
• dining
• wine
• red wine
• cheese
• meditation
• walking
• politics
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• blues
• buddhist
• teaching
• geology
• psychology
• science
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies - Amelie, One flew over the cookoos nest, Delicattessen, Noi Alinoi, Dancer in the dark, Chocolat, Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi.

Jazz mainly, pretty much anything that isn't pop, dance, drum and Base etc. I love 1920's 1950's jazz - Julia Lee, Nellie Lutcher, Koko Taylor, Nick Drake, Hoagy Carmichel, Van Morrison, Ian Dury, Pearl Bailey, Nina Simone, Stan Getz, Getz and Gilberto, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Jeffrey Lewis, Smashing Pumpkins, Dexys Midnight Runners, The Smiths, Moby, Do make say think, Mum, Sigor Ros, Bjork, Silver mount zion, Godspeed you black emperor,BB king, Minotaur shock, Tortoise, Low, The Baghdaddies, The madcaddies, The manic street preachers,The eels, Catch 22, Yo La Tengo, Jelly Roll Morton, REM, Tom Petty, Air, M Ward, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Holiday, Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, the bees, gomez, stina nordenstan, Madeleine Peroux, Portishead, Beth Gibbons, Mazzy Star, The Gotan Project, Devendra Barnhart, Muse, Ween, Free, Frank Crummit, Al Bowly, Mi and L'au, Animal Collective,Jeff Black, The Bats, Tiger Saw, Sufjan Stevens, Shawn Smith, Iron and Wine, Wooden wand and the invisible voice, redbird, xiu xiu, The microphones, The album leaf, James Horner, Kent, Fly pan am, explosions in the sky, Mylo.

Books - The short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson, Longitude- Dava Sobel, Sophie's World - Jostein Gaardner, The Time Traveler's Wife -Audrey Niffenegger, schott's original mischellany, 1984 - George Orwell, Down and out in London and Paris, The little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw a humpback whale jumping in Iceland. I also saw a full rainbow on the way back.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil