Positive + open-minded person, appreciate spirited debates and having my beliefs challenged. From a small island in South-West Canada of about ~1000 inhabitants, where we took a boat to school every morning.

In Utrecht for an exchange semester, and looking to see other areas of Europe while I am here! Would absolutely love to talk your ear off about any of the following: baking, climbing, surfing (longboard), camping, meditation/mindfulness, and ideation.

Why isn't the dashboard of a web browser on the bottom of the screen? That way we wouldn't have to damage our necks as much when working on laptops– everything would be ~2" higher up. These are the types of things I think about and like to discuss haha

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet interesting people (traveling alone can be isolating) and to exchange ideas and cultural practices/assumptions.

It's easy to get trapped in our own little bubble and forget that expectations are relative. I find the more perspective one has, the one can worry about abiding the the cultural norms in their own country :)

For example, in Canada people usually get married around 30. In Germany, I understand that it is often a bit younger. What else is different?

Interests

I like mostly all things related to being outdoors!

Music, Movies, and Books

books: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Slaughterhouse 5, You Are Here

movies: Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Training Day

favourite musicians: Timber Timbre, Drakkar Nowhere, Al Green, Cotton Jones, Sly & The Family Stone, MF DOOM, Good Morning, Kikagaku Moyo, TOPS, Ulrika Spacek, Nick Hakim, Beach Fossils, Donovan, Archy Marshall, Ultimate Painting, Men I Trust, Four Tet, Duster, Alex G, Boards of Canada, JJ Cale, Part Time, Bob Dylan, Crumb, Khruangbin

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swimming in bioluminescence– one of the coolest things in the world!

Less amazingly, I like to turn off people's bike lights when they have parked them and forgotten to do so.

What I Can Share with Hosts

How to bake sourdough bread; how to surf; discussion + debate + nice chats

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Netherlands