CURRENT MISSION

To travel widely, meet people and prove my faith in humanity. I love what this website is about and the idea of self-organised communities.

ABOUT ME

CouchSurfing represents some of the best things about the internet: connecting people and sharing information. I'm interested in many things. I'm passionate about the environment, community organising; exploring new places and meeting new people.

PHILOSOPHY

I try to live by minimal impact on our earth, an open heart and mind; I try to do good where I can and show an active interest in the world around me. I believe in the power of conversation (dialogue) so meeting - and engaging - others is important to me.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

Having travelled around much of Europe and Central and South America I have experienced the warmth of strangers when I've not been able to rent a flat/room/bed and I'm keen to re-pay the gesture to keep the cycle of goodness in motion!

兴趣

Interests are many and varied: cycling, football (soccer!), cinema, literature, capoeira, music (playing, listening and watching), writing, film-making and of course meeting people and sharing stories. Lauren is into film and cinema, cooking, and food growing.

• writing
• literature
• capoeira
• environment
• dining
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• woodworking
• music
• violin
• drums
• cycling
• soccer
• languages

音乐、电影和书籍

FILMS: Blade Runner; Chinatown; La Haine; The Seventh Seal; One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest; The Cloud Capped Star; Night and Fog; The Thin Blue LIne; The Three Colours Trilogy; Casablanca; Rome, Open City; Sans Soleil; Freaks; The Wide Blue Yonder and so much more... BOOKS (authors): Primo Levi; W.G. Sebald; Paul Auster; Albert Camus; Paul Kingsnorth; George Monbiot; John Berger; Dostoevsky; Joseph Conrad; John Steinbeck; Franz Kafka BOOKS (titles): 'Mehmed my Hawk'; 'By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept'; 'An Intimate History of Humanity'; 'Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography & Politics'; 'Sculpting in Time' and so much more... MUSIC: hip-hop; folk; "world music"; electronica, contemporary classical

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Cycled Cuba... lived with my grandmother in her final years... travelled to India... seen the night sky littered with stars and the sweep of the milky-way...
http://permaculturepeopleuk.tumblr.com/aboutus

教，学，和分享

Skills I might be able to offer: bicycle maintenance (how to fix a puncture), cooking, permaculture principles, and consensus-decision making facilitation, growing food // I would like to learn many things: how to be a better listener, languages, violin and drums, how to teach better, woodwork, how to do handstands and a whole range of other things.

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