CURRENT MISSION

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ABOUT ME

Hmm. When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always said 'human'. Still trying to get there. Talk to me about it.

PHILOSOPHY

We only fail when we fail to realize how we have changed ... and even then, it's just a matter of time.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Came across the site looking for places to stay in Peru...

Update 2 years later - couchsurfers are wonderful. I didn't end up in couchsurfing in Peru, but had lovely encounters in bars and later kind responses to frantic emails sent in Ecuador. For now, I'm just an observer but I'm happy to give people advice about Trinidad. I'm not on here too much, but I'll reply to you as best I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Mostly advice and suggestions for other couchsurfers. Coffee and tea.

Interests

Mixing perfume, port, vampires, Nabokov, mustard, Engrish, looking for shapes in the clouds, neurons, action potentials, the smell of old books, seeing dawn, guilty pleasures, flame (not smoke), tuberoses, dark chocolate with orange, dark comedy, French, dress up games

• books
• perfumes
• cooking
• chocolate
• coffee
• flowers
• reading
• painting

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: A Clockwork Orange, Un Chien Andalou, Lolita, L'auberge espagnole, les popupees russes, Wes Anderson's direction and camera lenses, Amelie, Wall-E, Slumdog Millionaire

Writing: Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie, VS Naipaul, Samuel Selvon, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin (Giovanni's Room!), Audre Lorde, Ranbir Singh Sidhu, Vladimir Nabokov

Music: West African guitar, blues, noisy rock, ska and reggae, Tropicalia inspired music

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Macchu Pichhu - for grandness.
For strangeness - at the top of a hill in Big Sur, a tree with used condoms tied onto its branches, the sunlight filtering through making patterns on the ground below.

Teach, Learn, Share

HOW TO COOK ANYTHING ANYWHERE. Reading the I ching. Mixing Milk paint. How to love flowers.

Countries I’ve Visited

Ecuador, Ghana, Italy, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Trinidad and Tobago

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