ABOUT ME

Sensible and pretty quiet. Interesting in meditation, reading, travel and stuff. I'm from a small village in the North of England. Although I've worked around Britain and have travelled overseas a bit, I'm still the same village kid really.

PHILOSOPHY

I'm a quiet and gentle socialist. I hate people making excessive profits and wish there was more altruism around.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Never couchsurfed! But I use to work away from home and have stayed in some weird places (usually the cheapest place I could find lol). I've stayed in a DSS hostel in Central London for £10 a night, a 5* hotel in Hamburg when I was running the marathon there, I lived in a tent in the Lee Valley, London for a whole summer.

Interests

I love to experience different cultures. I've befriended various overseas students from university - Thai, Gambian, Chinese, Cameroonian, Egyptian.

• writing
• education
• marathon
• running
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• teaching
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Forrest Gump. Catcher in the Rye. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The Heart if Deceitful Above All Things

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I left school with no qualifications but I've got educated to a good level now. I've given presentations on my PhD topic in Baltimore and Tuscaloosa, I teach vulnerable kids in care - but I drive wagons on the weekends as a sort of paid hobby.

I've run eight marathons in five different countries although it knackered up my knees.

Teach, Learn, Share

I've done a lot of proof reading and letter writing for overseas students at university. I'd always be happy to help anyone with this kind of thing.

I know quite a bit about the philosophy of education, educational sociology and sociolinguistics although that's probably a bit more niche