CURRENT MISSION

To keep travelling!

ABOUT ME

I am a mother of two, living in Vancouver Canada, work as a teacher and have worked off and on in theatre production (puppetry, technical, stage manager) , photography, and film/tv. I want to travel again having taken many years off to raise family (and so broke!!) I am planning to see Brazil, Europe again-Spain, Italy, Germany, Turkey...Northern Africa....
Finally renewed my passport and was told about this Couch surfing site...

PHILOSOPHY

keeping an open mind, sense of humour, empathy and humbleness. Pretentious people are messed up!

Dlaczego jestem na Couchsurfing

To meet new people and learn

Fairly new but have hosted 4 travelers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

have hosted 4

Zainteresowania

photography, hiking, travelling, writing, biking, filmmaking, watching films and listening to music from around the world, learning, meeting people, dancing, keeping fit, exploring, anthropology (culture and truth) and Stephen Jay Gould, have a deep interest in world music and in another life- an ethnomusicologist would be a chosen career! (for now its photo-journalism/writing)

• culture
• writing
• photography
• film making
• dancing
• boating
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• world music
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• sailing
• swimming
• anthropology
• teaching
• journalism

Muzyka, filmy i książki

BOOKS: Loved "The 100 year old man who jumped out a window and disappeared", " The girl who saved the Kind of Sweden", 'Lullabies for Little Children', 'Poisonwood Bible', 'One Hundred years of Solitude', anything George ORwell, or Stephen Jay Gould, Barbara Kingslover..."Inside of a Dog"
"What the Dog Saw" (by Malcolm Gladwell-liked "outliars' too)
Loved "Just Kids" by Patti Smith, (hopefully the movie deal with be good)
Films: so many to mention-recently 'Ten" "Offside" (Iranian) "City of God" and Men, 'Bus 174" (Brazil) Herzog's 'Aguirre the Wrath of God" and "Strozek" :"The Wave", "12 Angry Lebanese" , "Wasteland" and "Nostalgia for the light" , " Exit thru the Gift Shop"

Jedna niesamowita rzecz, którą zrobiłem(-am)

travelling to Ireland and Latin America was one of the best times of my life. Dophins swimming off the coast of Belize, on a sail boat with no wind....12 midnight, full-moon and being able to touch them as they glided by....omg!!!! But, having children has changed me forever!

Ucz innych, ucz się sam, udostępniaj

same as above- I love people who make me laugh (and at myself!!) and like to have fun 'in the moment' , people who bring themselves without pretention, are self-effacing and like to learn new things about the country they are exploring. (lifelong learner)

Czym mogę się podzielić z gospodarzami

Sense of humour , eclectic interests,
and passion for the arts animals and nature!

Kraje, w których byłem(-am)

Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Kraje, w których mieszkałem(-am)

Canada