I want to connect with locals, hear their stories and share my own. Hoping to get some good recommendations on food and learn a bit of the native language wherever I go. The hospitality and kindness I received through CS made me eager to meet more people.

Authors/Poets: Murakami T.S. Eliot Vonnegut Amy Tan Music: Blind Pilot, The Killers, Florence and the Machine, Oh Wonder, Jack's Mannequin, Mozart, Odesza, Matt Nathanson, Zhu Chopin Basically anything, but I'm a sucker for a piano melody. Movies: Lord of the Rings, Spirited Away -- anything by Miyazaki