CURRENT MISSION

My sister Carly and I just won the Vantastic NSW competition and will be travelling from Brisbane to Sydney by van for 6 weeks in Sept/Oct. We'd love to meet up with you along the way!

PHILOSOPHY

My aim in life is to have as many new experiences and learn as much as possible, so I'm constantly expanding my to-do list and trying to cross things off of it!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've just joined the Couchsurfing website, but would love to meet as many people as possible, both while travelling and when they're in Adelaide. I don't have a couch to share at the moment, but am happy to meet up and show you around town. I'd also love to meet people while I'm travelling, starting with a six week roadtrip through NSW in Sept/Oct '09.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've never couch surfed before, but I have been an exchange student twice (in Carbondale, Colorado and Okayama, Japan) as well as hosting exchange students with my family. I've done a fair bit of travelling and have been treated extremely well by people in every place I've been, so would love to repay the favour to anyone visiting Australia!

Interests

Making and watching films, travelling, photography, reading, eating good food, spending time with friends, meeting inspiring people, lazy summer days, long conversations, laughter, creativity, inspiration, summer fruits, Tribewanted, frozen grapes, intimacy, achievement, feeling alive, ideas, being part of something bigger, summer rain, standing in the middle of nowhere under the stars, bare feet, letters in the mail, brunch, icecream, gelati, procrastination, motivation, singalongs, new stationery, culture, images, music, foreign languages, landscapes, soundscapes, showreels, light, freedom, lomography, roadtrips, festivals, long messages on birthday cards, surprises, being the only person in the cinema, all the small moments that make a life

• culture
• photography
• film making
• festivals
• dining
• seafood
• cooking
• vegetarian
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• languages
• sign language

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Amelie, American Beauty, Babel, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Capote, Capturing the Friedmans, Forrest Gump, Life as a House, Little Miss Sunshine, Love Actually, Moulin Rouge, The Scent of Green Papaya, Sister Act 2, The Sound of Music, The Usual Suspects

Books: The Time Traveler's Wife, Blink, The Tipping Point, Outliers, My Sister's Keeper, The Pact, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Da Vinci Code, Harry Potter, Rebel Without a Crew, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Bride Stripped Bare

Music: A random mix that is constantly growing as I attempt to expand my tastes

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach: filmmaking, especially the camera side of things; photography; some Japanese & Spanish; the basics of Australian sign language (Auslan); beginner level guitar; how to cook some of my favourite vegetarian/seafood dishes; how to fold a paper crane; unicycling & probably various other things I can't think of at the moment!

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