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Overview

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  • Fluent in English; learning Chinese, Māori
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • English Teaching (beginning 2014)
  • University of Otago -
  • From Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
  • Profile 45% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Working in China for the next year...to see, eat, hear and experience as much as I can!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Newbie to CS, but am looking forward to getting amongst it!

Interests

Football, Tramping/hiking, cooking, meeting new people, Snowboarding, Running, Squash, Museums & cultural heritage, Travelling, Reading, live-Music, new restaurants.

  • cooking
  • running
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • snowboarding
  • soccer
  • racquetball
  • beaches
  • squash

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: The Beatles, Portishead, PJ Harvey,Miles Davies, James Brown, Bob Dylan, The Decemberists, Metz, Daft Punk, Kyuss,Leadbelly, Mogwai...I'll give anything a listen.

Books: Cormac McCarthy is my favourite contemporary author. But a fan of a lot of the classics too. Some favourite authors: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Jonathan Franzen, Maxine Hong-Kingston, Bret Easton Ellis, Dickens, John Steinbeck and a lot more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Surfing with dolphins @ Warrington Beach, Blueskin Bay, Dunedin.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand

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