CURRENT MISSION

Create space...

I teach English as a second language and have done research on Oceanic languages.

PHILOSOPHY

You become what you practice

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I don't have a couch to offer to people at the moment, but I'm happy to meet for a coffee or a beer.

Interests

Chi gung, breathing, a few beers with good company, dodgy puns, language, rhythm and rhyme, change, how our world views form and evolve, love, relationship between our inner and outer worlds, daoism, cups of tea and cheese toasties.

• beauty
• exercise
• teaching
• language learning
• cultural exchange
• herman hesse
• daoism

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm currently reading The Language of Emotions by Karla McLaren. It is amazing. I recently read and enjoyed Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Favourite movies include Memento, Last of the Mohicans and Apocalypse Now. I like a good animated movie now and again, like The Cat Returns, Finding Nemo or Megamind.

Music: Fatoumata Diawara, Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, Paco de Lucia, Amadou and Miriam, Johnny Cash, Sting

Lapis Lazuli by WB Yeats is a poem I really like. You can read it here:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43297/lapis-lazuli

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw a bright green comet in the sky over Choiseul in Solomon Islands. On a clear night the sky is pretty amazing there.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Morocco, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Spain, United Kingdom

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