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Overview

  • 2 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Kazakh, Russian
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Student
  • 3rd year Uni
  • From Almaty, Kazakhstan
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To see and experience as much of europe as possible in the next 4 months!!

ABOUT ME

I was born in canberra, australia.. but at the age of two moved to Almaty, kazakhstan where i lived until the age of 18. I'm currently a student at the University of Wollongong in Sydney.. but am on exchange at the moment at Lund University in Sweden.

Interests

reading, sports (all forms of tennis and full contact rugby are my favs at the moment..), hanging out, coming up with awesome song titles, traveling, politics, economics, music,

  • politics
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • hiking
  • sports
  • tennis
  • rugby
  • economics
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music.. We Were Promised Jetpacks, St. Vincent, Grizzly Bear, Phoenix, Johnossi, Department of Eagles, Great Lake Swimmers, Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit, Kate Miller-Heidke, The Dodos, Architecture In Helsinki, Josh Pyke, Blitzen Trapper, She and Him, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Nursrat Fateh Ali Khan, A.R. Rahman.. really interested in any new music... mostly folk and electro rock but also world music.. Hindi and African in particular..

Love to read as well right at this moment i'm going through a bit of a Sci-fi phase but love all sorts of different Genres.... some of my fav books are Wuthering Heights, The Count of Mont Cristo, Ender's Game, The Brothers Karamazov, The Foundation Series, The Runner, Anna Karenina, Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gatsby, Emma, Rebecca, My Brother Jack, Catch 22, The left hand of Darkness...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

wow.. don't know if this is the most amazing thing i've done but since i was just there i'd have to say hiking in the Tien Shan Mountains in Almaty, Kazakhstan is pretty awesome!!!

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach people some rudimentary Russian, if some one could help me that would be awesome too! .. I'm studying politics and economics so love talking about Global affairs and being able to see how people from different cultures and places view the world.. play the guitar but well really pretty badly, would love to learn how to play a little better

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Azerbaijan, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Kyrgyzstan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Kazakhstan, Sweden

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