About me....I was raised in Manchester and grew-up in San Diego, went to school in Berkeley (with a stint in Berlin) and now live in New York City.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Traveling and exploring has been ingrained in me since I was a child and on my next trip, I'm traveling from England to Helsinki for 3 days/2nights.

Interests

Wes Anderson movies, journalling, walking excessive amounts, hiking, reading the news excessive amounts, discussing it, exploring my Brooklyn neighborhood, healthy eating, plants, interior design, Scandinavian design, making sangria, making mulled wine, keeping in touch with old friends, making new friends, falafel, modern art, Magritte, textiles, being Mancunian, British humour, The Office (both UK & US versions), Larry David, treating the earth and everything in it with affection ☮

Music, Movies, and Books

Audio: Paul Simon

Film: Shawshank Redemption

Literature: Huckleberry Finn

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Wanting to get out of the US for a while and to work [legally] over summer, the week after turning 18 and graduating High School, I flew to Germany where I trained and worked gross amounts of hours for klein amounts of euros at a five star Bavarian Bakery on a small island called Lindau. To this day, I still look back at it as one of the more weird, brilliant, lonely and necessary experiences in my life; I would say random, but it remains pretty true to my character.

Teach, Learn, Share

Not only through discovering different parts of the world first-hand, I majored in Globalization during college, and so a huge focus of my college education, and also where I thrive, is learning about the world around me from a historical, environmental, demographical, and economical perspective. This is also includes my enjoyment in envisioning the future of our planet on all scales, however naive that may be, it is something worth teaching, learning, and sharing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States, Vatican City State, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Germany, United States