CSU Nelson NZ

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This is a launching pad for the Teaching, Learning, and Sharing of CouchSurfing University in Nelson New Zealand! Have something you want to teach, learn or share? Post it here. Initial next to Interested if you're interested in the class.

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Top Classes

Beach bonfire skills and cooking on open flame with Hungrysteve

  • Go to the beach, learn to make a great fire, and then cook on it
  • Overnight
  • Interested: TTT, JE, Anu, Luna1, Hillary, Jelena

Some interest

Kayaking with Seals & Dolphins - Kaikoura

  • During late Feb - early March pods of hundreds of dolphins come close into South Bay, Kaikoura. They swim closely under and around your kayak. I'm happy to share this amazing experience with small group (Max. 3 per trip but I can repeat). Kayaks, equipment, and basic instruction provided. Luna1
  • Interested: JE, Anu, Hillary, Jelena

Pack Rafting Lunacy

  • I have kayaking experience but zero pack-rafting experience so this will be a shared adventure rather than a teaching session. I have just acquired two Alpacka Rafts from Alaska. Will start out with short trips on gentler rivers with safety very much in mind. Nelson/West Coast area Dec 29th - Jan 14th then various weekend trips after that. Luna1
  • Requires ability to swim
  • Interested: Hungrysteve, JE

Kiwi Media with Gardner

  • Learn about and discuss the media in New Zealand.
  • Acknowledge foreign media and discuss how it influences Kiwi culture.
  • Learn about different types of Kiwi produced content and the delivery channels which create the media infrastructure in New Zealand including radio, television, periodicals, cinema, and the internet.
  • Share information about writers, producers, actors, directors, comedians, musicians, sports stars, columnists, television shows, children's programming, and more.
  • Consume Kiwi media and discuss unique cultural aspects.
  • 1-3 hours per week with a dynamic format and some assignments.
  • Interested: TTT, JE

How Couch Surfing works: the tech behind the site with Casey

  • Discussion about the tech that goes into making the site so great
  • 2) 1 hour sessions
  • Interested: TTT, Anu, Diane

Creative Design on your PC with Leo

  • Learn to do design
  • 1 hour per day
  • 10 lessons should be enough
  • Interested: Anu, Jelena

Internet Telephony with User:Gardner

  • Learn about different internet phone systems can help you save money from a consumer stand point.
  • Gain a general understanding about how the systems work and how they can be so much more cost effective.
  • 15 Minutes with open Question & Answer period afterwards.
  • Interested:Anu, Jelena, Hillary

Yoga with Jim

  • 10 minutes to 1 hour, depending on our endurance
  • wear comfortable clothes
  • bring a mat if you have one (or two if you want to bring one for Jim who forgot his)
  • Interested: JE, Anu, Jelena

Painting with amylin

  • 1 hour
  • supplies provided
  • Interested: JE, Anu, Luna1


A little interest

Cultural Infiltration with Joe

  • We will infiltrate churches, yacht clubs, farms, retirement homes, trailer parks--wherever people are different than ourselves. We will mingle with the rich and the dirt poor, the Pakeha and the Maori, of all walks of life.
  • Several field trips and fieldwork assignments done in pairs.
  • a 30 min prep class plus 2-4 hrs each outing.
  • Interested: TTT, Diane

Breaking and Entering with Joe

  • Basics of B&E including scaling buildings, moving silently, credit cards and lockpicks, looking like you're supposed to be there, obtaining blueprints from town offices, befriending employees, etc.
  • 2 hour intro class plus individual & small group assignments.
  • Interested: TTT

Tide pool animals with Hungry Steve

  • Go to the beach and discover what lives just under the oceans surface
  • 1-2 hours
  • Bring sunscreen
  • Interested: JE

Microperformance with Joe

  • Practice singing, dancing, or whatever else you're into in front of other people in a safe way, two minutes at a time!
  • A microperformance is a two-minute-or-less performance. No matter how scared you are, you can probably get up and do something for a minute or so. We will develop very short performances and then show them to each other.
  • 1 hr
  • Interested: TTT

Kazoo and jaw harp with Kasper

  • Learn the basics of tiny fun instruments
  • 20 minutes
  • Interested: JE

Body ritual with Jelena

  • Body, Mind, Gentle Movement
  • 40 minutes
  • Interested: JE

Dance with Joe

  • any number of 1hr classes
  • Interested: Anu, Diane, Jelena

Beginners HTML offered by Mattthew

  • Learn to create a simple web page
  • Several hours
  • Interested: Jelena

Juggling for dummies with Elsa or Hungry Steve or Jim

  • Learn the basics of three balls at once
  • 30 minutes
  • Interested: TTT


Couch-minis offered by Mattthew

  • Learn to make a mini plush couch
  • 2 or 3 hours
  • Requires fabric and thread (needles?)
  • Interested: Anu

Sewing and Making/Modifying clothing with amylin

  • 1+ Hours
  • Some supplies provided; be creative
  • Interested: Anu

No interest

French with Elsa

  • Basic French for travellers
  • 1-2 hours
  • Interested:

Hostage Negotiation with Joe

  • a how to re: keeping our heads in dangerous situations and talking down or distracting angry or violent people, plus overviews of s.w.a.t., analysis of buildings, gun / ammunition realities, etc, focusing on tactics and role-playing of hostage and violent situations
  • any number of 1hr classes
  • Interested:

Vegan Cooking with amylin

  • Ethiopian or Carribean style
  • Slow cooked and delicious
  • 1-3 hours
  • Interested:

Vegan baking with amylin

  • 2 hours
  • Results in goodness
  • Interested:

10 words of Hindi and perspectives to Indian culture (Anu & Shai)

  • Basic introduction to Indian subcontinent (from point of view of a traveler and a local)
  • Interested:

PHP in 10 minutes / Programming for Dummies (Anu)

  • 24 lessons based on a book by that name (or other less formal lesson plan)
  • If possible, think of a small project you would like to program (always easier when you have a clear goal in mind). Some ideas
    • (please expand)
  • Anu is NOT sure she can really teach this stuff formally but would be interested in trying
  • Interested:

Boot camp with Kristen

  • looking for soldiers
  • tennis lesson /game and drills - you will be HOT by the end of it
  • 45 minutes to 1 hour
  • Interested:

Making paper with amylin

  • 45 minutes
  • Requires a window screen, a blender, lint (from dryer), water basin, + organic ingredients
  • Interested:

How to make soap with amylin

  • 4 hours
  • Bring your favorite scented oil
  • Interested:

Basic knitting with amylin

  • 30 minutes
  • Bring your own needles -- everything needed can be found cheaply at the Junk Store near the airport
  • Interested:


They happened

Group Meditation with Triple T

  • brief lecture about meditation: what it is, its benefits, and "how to" instructions
  • two 15 minute sessions of group meditation
  • 1 hour
  • Interested: Hillary

Wiki with Kasper

  • Learn to be a wiki wizard
  • 30 minutes
  • Interested: Hillary, Jelena
  • completed this course: Hillary and Jelena. Must've worked cause now we are wiki-literate. Thanks Kasper!




Learn

Hungrysteve wants to learn the following things that aren't being taught:

    • about Maori culture
    • bone/wood/stone carving
    • metalsmithing
    • farming
    • mountaineering
    • sailing
    • hunting and eating my own meat
    • turning wool into clothes
    • sea kayaking
    • whitewater rafting/kayaking
    • donut making
    • carpentry
    • auto repair
    • poetry
    • writing
    • programming
    • meat curing

Anu wants to learn

    • Free culture and open source for dummies ;)
    • Conversational Hindi
    • Driving lessons

Share

OK, I have this idea that a lot of things don't need a teacher to teach them. Instead, it only requires a group of people who are interested in trying it together. Learn by doing, teach each other as you go. I only know how to explain it with an example so here goes:

I want to learn to paint. I don't think it would be very cool to have someone show me how to paint, for me that wouldn't do me any good and would be boring. Instead, what would be sweet is to learn to paint with some other people who want to learn. Then share the experiences. If 1 person tries to paint the ocean, they will try different strokes to figure out what makes a cool ocean look. Eventually they will find one that works for them and stick with it. If 5 people try to paint the ocean, each might find a different stroke that creates a cool but different ocean look. That is 5 cool different ocean looks. They share that experience with each other and now each knows 5 different ways to paint cool oceans. Super Sweet! So that is the idea. Shared learning experiences. The learning of the future!!! by Hungrysteve

  • Hungrysteve would like to share the following experiences:
    • Swimming with seals
      • Interested:
    • Painting- an hour a week, let me know
      • Interested:Jelena
    • The German Language- I would like to spend an hour a week just learning German together with some people, let me know if you want to rock that with me. (doch! Anu 07:51, 22 December 2006 (EST))
    • German I Courseware from MIT
      • Interested:
  • Hillary and Jelena would love to share:
    • an exploration of the puponga farm park. We want to take you for a beautiful hike through rolling green hills full of sheep (and sheepshit! ;) through magical forests to secluded beaches.... Don't leave NZ without seeing this awesome spot!
      • Interested:


I Draw Your Portrait

  • Requires you to sit still for at least an hour while I draw.
  • No guarantees that it looks like you
  • Interested:

See also

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