CURRENT MISSION

Living life

ABOUT ME

Hard to encapsulate - perhaps see the list of interests. I have in my lifetime seen flat plains of central australia, had dehydration whilst treating villager's teeth in south america, been high off salsa in Rotorua, and spent 10 years at a job. Go figure.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe that all people should agree to believe in humanist principles - I think people are converging on ideas like being violent to each other is not a good thing, generally being intolerant isn't great, what people do in their own bedrooms should generally be their own business and not made illegal, and generally being good to one another. I like to think that people regardless of their particular religion should agree with humanist ideals. Design should be able to save the world

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As a casual salsa dancer, I can share my skills in dancing with anyone who is interested. Also keen to have a jam with anyone who wants to play some music. A fairly avid geek also so can probably speak for hours about random geeky subjects. Also would like to share origami notes with other folders.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed a few couches over in Amsterdam and met a couple of fantastic, open, friendly people - had a great time with them taking me to their local cafe and showing me the crazy murals on the walls there! Have hosted several times in sydney

Interests

Salsa, Travelling, Trivia, Philosophy, Internet, Yoga, Art, Music, Solar Power, Sustainability, Spanish, Coding, Origami

• arts
• books
• design
• dancing
• tango
• yoga
• running
• trivia
• traveling
• origami
• coding
• music
• piano
• blues
• sailing
• martial arts
• business
• teaching
• history
• medicine
• religion
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Tim Minchin, Axis of awesome, Tripod, Blues, Cat Empire, Waiting for Guiness, The Waifs, Nuevo Tango, That 1 guy, Mojo Juju and the Snake Oil Merchants,
Movies - fantasy and SciFi, LOTR, the matrix, star wars, monsters inc, finding nemo etc.

Books - Collapse by Jared Diamond, Blue Economy by Gunter Pauli, The history of the world until yesterday by Jared Diamond, Federation .

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Went travelling for 5 months in western europe.
Seen the Amazon Basin and worked on sick villagers near Iquitos in Peru.
Voluntary work in Cairns 3 years out of 4.
Sailed the HMB Endeavour - tall ship, square rigs, 2 years running, the latest on the Barrier Reef!
Peru - seen Macaws eating clay in the amazon, visited Macchu Picchu in pouring rain and misty clouds
Brazil - seen the throngs of thousands in Santa Teresa during Carnivale time
Buenos Aires - developed a crush on a tango teacher in argentina
Origami folding

Teach, Learn, Share

Salsa - Have been learning for about 7 years on and off, can teach
Martial Arts/Yoga - can teach some basic moves
Music - can teach piano, mainly a blues/pop/rock style.
Origami - recently started learning off books
Know a bit about medicine that might be interesting to people who haven't learnt anything about it

Share - music, medical talk, travel talk, science

Learn - anything a person can communicate well about - I've been enthused by Art, Sustainability, History, Sailing at different times by different people, Hacking/making stuff. Origami

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, China, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United Kingdom

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