Hi, I'm Meg, 20, currently a student doing Biology.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love travelling and seeing new places, and I think by far the best way to do it is to get to know people who live there. On my gap year I stayed with two families for 6 months, one in New Zealand and one in Belize, and it was fantastic. It'd be amazing to be able to do the same on short trips in places where I don't know people. I also really like Oxford (where I live during term time), so am very up for showing people round and giving them a place to stay!

Interests

Meeting people, doing new things, reading, singing, rowing, running, piano

• animals
• singing
• baking
• running
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• piano
• cycling
• rowing
• biology

Music, Movies, and Books

Hard question - music I like pretty much everything from Tallis to Gershwin to Jack Johnson to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Not heavy metal. Sorry. But anything else :P

Movies - Kind of like music - as long as it does what it sets out to do really well, I'll love it. Comedies that really make you laugh, serious films that make you think for days afterwards, action films that are exciting but don't entirely give up on character development, arty films that are just plain beautiful.

Books - So. Many. Books. I think kind of the point of books is to let you experience (by proxy) a situation you've never been in before, whether that be because it's set in a different world (sci-fi/fantasy), a different time (historical) or just show you a scenario you've never encountered. So if it does that well and has good characters, I'm sold.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Depends what you mean by amazing. To be honest I think most of my life's been pretty amazing (though I guess I'm bias) - but most of it not particularly extraordinary.

Doing the Coast to Coast (running, cycling and rafting from one side of New Zealand to the other in 3 days) was absolutely incredible - New Zealand is spectacular, the other people were very very lovely and it was pretty physically challenging.

Teach, Learn, Share

If you want to know a very random assortment of facts about starfish, how plants survive in deserts, how your immune system works, why fungi are massively underrated and how your genome regulates itself to develop a single cell into an incredibly complex human being I'm here. Otherwise I guess we can play piano duets together? I also have 3 siblings under the age of 5, so at the risk of sounding arrogant I'm excellent at hide and seek, baking, making pipe cleaner animals etc.

You can join in with whatever I'm up to if you come to Oxford - choir, lectures (if you fancy seeing what they're like), come have dinner in college - depends what's happening. But term's also pretty hectic, so I might be rather busy a lot of the time...

What I Can Share with Hosts

See above. I also really, really like hearing people's stories about what they've been up to and sharing my own.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belize, France, Germany, India, New Zealand, Peru, Sweden, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belize, England, New Zealand, Scotland