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Overview

  • 4 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Italian
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2013
  • No occupation listed
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  • From London
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

travelling around California

ABOUT ME

Hi, we're Lizzie and Madeleine. We are a couple.

I (Madeleine) am writing this for both of us because Lizzie finds talking about herself embarassing. I am a misunderstood capricorn; Lizzie, on the other hand, doesn't believe in star signs. I can't speak for both of us, but I will: I think we're both friendly, laid-back, slightly-introverted geeks. I'm currently doing an undergrad in English Lit and Lizzie works at a newspaper to pay the bills (hers not mine). She also runs a small publishing partnership that puts out art books. We're going to California this summer and we're hoping to meet people and hang out, not just crash in their houses.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We're new to couchsurfing, but we're looking for some friendly places to sleep while we're in California (mostly LA and San Francisco) this summer. Hopefully we'll be able to return the favour in London in the future.

We'd both be very happy to meet up with any queers travelling to East London or Cambridge to have a coffee/a drink or show them around our bit of the city.

Interests

Madeleine likes cooking, basketball and medieval literature. Lizzie likes photography, illustration, and being lazy in the sun. We both love spending time with queers and small animals.

  • animals
  • arts
  • writing
  • books
  • literature
  • photography
  • illustrations
  • womens rights
  • cooking
  • coffee
  • running
  • drinking
  • clothing
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • crochet
  • origami
  • guitar
  • basketball
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies/TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Twin Peaks; Harold & Maude; Wes Anderson films; Whip It; Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind; Badlands; The Tree of Life; Eerie, Indiana; David Attenborough documentaries

Music: Kaki King, Mac de Marco, Small Black, Grimes, Prince, The Shangri-Las, Widowspeak, Garbage, Planningtorock, Purity Ring, Ladytron, Joan Armatrading

At the moment we're reading: No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive by Lee Edelman, What Becomes by A. L. Kennedy, Are you my mother? by Alison Bechdel, The Queer Art of Failure by Judith Jack Halberstam, Labyrinths by Borges
(Madeleine is also currently reading the last 1000 years of English literature for her exams...)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lizzie has stayed up until dawn on a Caribbean beach to help an enormous leatherback sea turtle lay its eggs, and then seen the tiny babies hatch and run down to the sea months later.
Once a shark swam right up to her - half amazing, half scary.

When Madeleine was in Takamatsu in Japan she saw more koi carp than she could ever have imagined.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Between the two of us we can help you to: speak French or Italian; bake cakes; crochet; do origami and paper marbling; play basketball; do something computery (photoshop/indesign); tie-dye your clothes; crochet a blanket.

Learn: We love to learn new skills and ideas from people. Madeleine is learning guitar and would love some assistance; Lizzie would be excited to learn any crafty skills you have.

Share: We also both really like talking to people about their feminism and their political beliefs/experiences.

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