CURRENT MISSION

One day, I shall be fluent in 20 languages...

ABOUT ME

I like to keep a beard on my face. Yup, I do realise that's a weird way to start this, but for some reason it's oddly important to me! Haha. I'm 21, left home when I was 17 to go travelling instead of continuing with college (where I was studying an ND in Music Tech) and I caught the travel-bug.

I try to keep moving as much as possible, because it feels more natural, but I always end up back in London- it just feels like home to me.

ANYWAY, I'm into my music- a pretty varied taste accounts for the almost 30 days of straight music on my iTunes. I'd really like to become fluent in 20 languages before I die...so far I'm on about 2 and a half...slow & steady! Slow & steady!

I make money etc through freelance web-design, which has made me meet a whole bunch of real interesting people seeing as I'm trying to only make websites for creatives!

Phew. okay. Rant over.
Oh, wait- one more thing! Interesting fact: if you google 'Pookage' I'm pretty sure I'm the first 3 pages of results! :D

PHILOSOPHY

There's a line from a book called 'Another Roadside Attraction' that a lass from Woodstock lent me in '08 which sums up my philosophy perfectly:

'The principle difference between an adventure and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape; the slimmer the margin the greater the adventure.'

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I make the best olive-bread you've ever tasted :P

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven't really couchsurfed apart from with friends & friends of friends, so I don't have much to put here. My rule of thumb is that if someone gives me a bed then I do the washing up! haha.

Interests

Music, Photography, Cycling, Travelling. The usual. I'm afraid I'm pretty stock-standard when it comes to these sections. Either that or I've got no idea what to write!

• books
• design
• photography
• technology
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• adventure races
• freelancing
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Haha, this would take forever. Here, my last.fm & facebook pages should shine a light on this one:

http://www.last.fm/user/pookagehayes
http://www.facebook.com/pookage

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Weelll...these are the stories you tell in person, surely?

Teach, Learn, Share

I could teach English, Italian & Web design...and I'm pretty good with mic setups, so I can teach you recording techniques on analogue or ProTools, Samplitude & Reason. Hows that?

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Ireland, Italy, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom