ABOUT ME

My boyfriend and I just moved to Pretoria, South Africa from Canada and are looking to make some new friends during our one-year stay here. We are in our late twenties and enjoy movies, music, art, literature, traveling and trying new things. We're both very easy going and down to earth. Steve is an electrical engineer and works for a locomotive company here. I was a photographer & receptionist back home, but will not be working while we're in South Africa.
We live in East Pretoria, near Lynnwood.

PHILOSOPHY

I'll try anything twice (within reason).

A quote I like:

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

Interests

Photography, Reading, Archaeology, Astronomy, Quantum Physics, Cosmology, Architecture, Yoga, Meditation, Reiki, Tai Chi, Qigong, Holistics, Theosophy, Origami, Table Tennis, Hiking, Traveling, Eating, Veganism

• arts
• literature
• architecture
• photography
• yoga
• meditation
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• origami
• music
• hiking
• sailing
• tennis
• table tennis
• astronomy
• engineering
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Aphex Twin, Assemblage 23, Atari Teenage Riot, Autechre, Beethoven, Bjork, Buffalo Daughter, Clinic, Covenant, Cranberries, David Bowie, Dead Can Dance, Death in Vegas, Depeche Mode, Delerium, Einsturzende Neubauten, Faint, Fluke, Funker Vogt, Goldfrapp, Haujobb, I Am X, Ima Robot, Infected Mushroom, KMFDM, Kylie Minogue, Ladytron, Leonard Cohen, Madonna, Massive Attack, Meat Beat Manifesto, Meg Lee Chin, Metric, Mindless Self Indulgence, Moby, Modern Talking, Neil Young, Nena, Nick Cave, No Doubt, Notwist, Orbital, Photek, Pigface, Portishead, Prodigy, Rabbit in the Moon, Radiohead, Robots in Disguise, Royksopp, She Wants Revenge, Sigur Ros, Sister Machine Gun, Sisters of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, Social Distortion, U2, Underworld, VAST, Venetian Snares, VNV Nation, Wumpscut

Movies: A Beautiful Mind, A Walk to Remember, About a Boy, Amelie, American Beauty, Art School Confidential, Bent, Breakfast Club, Darjeeling Limited, Dead Poets Society, Edward Scissorhands, Eyes Wide Shut, Gattaca, Ghost World, Gia, Lars and the Real Girl, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, My First Mister, Pecker, Pump Up the Volume, Reality Bites, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Running With Scissors, Rushmore, Secretary, Shawshank Redemption, Shortbus, Swing Kids, Un Chien Andalou, Welcome to the Dollhouse

Books: Chogyam Trungpa, Sri Aurobindo, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ramana Maharshi, B.K.S. Iyengar, Gopi Krishna, Rumi, Osho, Ken Wilber, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron, The Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, Surya Das, Anthony Robbins, Esther Veltheim, Dogen, Mahatma Gandhi, Paulo Coelho, Augusten Burroughs, Dave Eggers, David Sedaris, Chuck Palahniuk, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Suskind, Douglas Coupland, Wally Lamb, James Frey, Philip K. Dick, Mitch Albom, James Redfield, Nick Hornby, Carlos Castaneda, Henry Miller, Hermann Hesse, Fritjof Capra, Khaled Hosseini, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, Cuba, Germany, Netherlands, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Poland, South Africa