CURRENT MISSION

To save enough $$ to survive a couple of crazy weeks in Tokyo!

ABOUT ME

Currently back in my hometown in New Zealand, planning my next adventure to Melbourne and Tokyo in July!

I love meeting new people and growing up I do not remember a time when there wasn't an exchange student or boarder from all over the world staying at my house. I've travelled quite a bit over the years and seeing other parts of the world is definitely what drives me in life.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't shy away from experiences you've never had or don't understand because they could just turn out to be the best thing you ever did!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have had couch surfers stay with me and my roommates in NZ over the past 3 years, and have been on the other side of the couch (so to speak) as I travelled through the USA after a year living in NYC.

I'm bringing to the CS Project an open mind, a desire to meet others with the same passion for travel and foreign culture as me and hopefully can bring a little bit of NZ culture into your home!

I am tidy and respectful and would love to cook you dinner one night!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted a few couch surfers back in NZ when I was at college. Had some fantastic surfing experience when I first arrived in NYC, and in many other parts of the USA as I drove from New York to LA.

Interests

Old films, photography, travelling, doing things on whims, wine, food and cooking, art, vintage shopping, farmers markets, music, going to gigs, talking for hours, exploring cities on foot, sustainable living, second hand bookstores, lomography, analogue anything

• arts
• culture
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• shopping
• movies
• traveling
• music
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: La Bete Humane, Pan's Labyrinth, Casablanca, Vertigo, UP, Ladri di Biciclette, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, There Will Be Blood, Trainspotting, Little Miss Sunshine, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Metropolis, Double Indemnity, Troll 2, Ghost Dog, Antichrist, Unmade Beds, Embodiment of Evil, Limits of Control. I was a film major, so the films I'm into are pretty varied and extensive...!

Music: Mostly indie/alt-country/alt-folk etc... Nerve City, Woods, The Mint Chicks, Animal Collective, Atlas Sound, Deerhunter, Flaming Lips, Girls, Edan, The XX, Dinosaur Jr, The Books, The National, Bat for Lashes, Dan Deacon... just some stuff I've been listening to recently.

Books: Gabriel García Márquez, Yann Martel, classic victorian fiction, Ian McEwan, John Wyndham, Ted Hughes, Cormac McCarthy, Louis de Bernieres, Jack Kerouac, cooking books, Patrick Suskind...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My parents took me from London to Germany in 1989 to see the Berlin Wall come down... amazing to think I was able to be a part of this historical event.

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