Favorite movies: One Fine Day, Rent, Life of David Gale, Little Miss Sunshine, Babel, Lonesome Jim, Mostly Marcha, The Island, Chocolat, Edward Scissor Hands, Nine Lives, Water, Dirty Pretty Things, Planet Earth Series, Once, Juno, The Shawshank Redemption Favorite Music: Feist, Nora Jones, Robert Wilson, Ben Harper, Postal Service, Damien Rice, Sufjan Stevens, Maplewood Lane, Iron and Wine, Tracy Chapman, Sheree Plett Favorite books:"girlfriend in a coma" by Douglas Coupland, "handmaidens tale" by Margaret Atwood, "life of pi, " by Yann Martel, "the glass castle" by Jeannette Walls

I've travelled on a lorry truck through the Kenyan desert sitting on a bag of cabbages for 3 days straight. It was probably the most overwhelming and challenging thing I've done. The heat was so intense my head was blistering and I honestly didn't think I'd make it to the Tanzanian paradise of Zanzibar.