Firstly, the dreaded combo of living both at my parent-home and a regulated university residence makes hosting out-of-my-hands out of the question at the moment. Soz.

I'm 20 years old and my shaky starting-out with the life of a medical student at Stellenbosch University has only just started stabilising. I am very much liking the whole Dingens, but I have no idea what to do with my degree - I don't think I want to be a doctor.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Wake-up calls, learning new skills to be more useful and forming new experiences to be nostalgic about - the old ones are getting pretty worn out - have become my hobby. Included are getting to know languages, music and musical instruments, cultures and people, random skills and road signs, skylines and coastlines, home-smells.

Living with locals and experiencing their world from their perspective has, in my experience, been by far the most effective way of getting to know a place's character. Couchsurfing seems to be focused on facilitating just that.

Interests

Learning languages
Guitar - Classical mostly
Cooking - I think my enthusiasm might surpass my skill...
Mountain biking - at the moment only in theory though
Saxophone and piano, slowly in the making, hopefully eventually cello as well
Understanding

• cooking
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• cycling
• hiking
• history
• languages
• medicine
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

BachBeethovenMozartBizetDelibesPucciniVivaldiMorricone - just about anything "classical" and operatic.
Leonard Cohen
Stef Bos
Simon and Garfunkel
Taylor Swift
U2

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Explored Namibia by hitchhiking after falling behind my hiking group.
Travelling through Europe on my own (right now)

What I Can Share with Hosts

South Africa's history
Basics of classical guitar
My limited cooking skills

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Namibia, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Africa