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Overview

  • 6 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Afrikaans, French, Hebrew (modern)
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Economics researcher
  • PhD student
  • From Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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About Me

Best to do a 'High Fidelity' top list.

people
food
Social justice
music, arts, and expression
books & reading

top 5 hates

microwaves and artificial foods
oppression, racism, uneccesary ignorance
cockroaches

Struggle.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

surf surf
couch couch
offer offer (ocassionally)
take take (more often)

Experiences couchsurfing:

Lithuania - amazing.
Germany - wow wow, unbelievable.
China - top notch.
Amsterdam - fantastic.
Cape Town - I hosted
Japan - fascinating
Italy - lovely family
etc.
Thank you to these exceptional people.

Interests

guitar and music
movies
books
education
learning
the outdoors and nature
progressive economic policy
economic theory and clasical political economy
history
travelling and experiences different perspectives on life
etc
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  • pets
  • books
  • education
  • dining
  • cooking
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • outdoor activities
  • teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - Radiohead, Mars Volta, Beck, Led Zepplin, Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, DJ Shadow, The Strokes, Beatles, Beach Boys
Books - 1948, Economic History and Theory, Political-Economy, biographies, classic fiction, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

* Seeing the largest Camel Market in the world, in Egypt. A random person drove us there, leaving at 5am on a dirt road for 2 hours.

* Jugygo (spelling?) nature reserve in China in the winter.

* Table mountain in Cape Town

Teach, Learn, Share

Guitar lessons?
Economic theory?
Cooking lessons -- italian and south east asian and south Asian?
economic theory and policy

What I Can Share with Hosts

READ ME:
* I don't host often, only when I have some free time*
* Due to the large number of requests I receive I usually don't reply with a personalized message - sorry!
* Can host: One, max two or three, people.
* No babies or pets. Prefer weekends.

OFFER:
A couch in the living room or a blowup mattress in my room.
I live in Williamsburg in a great neighborhood with two other girls. Right off the Bedford L.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Laos, Lithuania, Morocco, Mozambique, Poland, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, South Africa, Tunisia, United States

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