HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I have surfed quite a bit, and hosted when possible. Between tiny houses, reluctant housemates, and moving a minimum of three times a year every year it's a bit of a struggle hosting regularly, but I do when I can. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Very positive! I have made so many lasting friendships from Couchsurfing! I still email the friends of one of my hosts from four years ago, and consider her a valuable and wonderful friend. I met her twice! I am a huge believer in how you can often run into people very briefly, find them amazing, and then make an effort to keep in contact in some capacity and it will pay off. Relationships with people that you care about are so beautiful, and they can very easily be founded on a few meetings, or a couple of days. I think that's one of the most valuable parts of couchsurfing for me, not only are some amazing people in my life in my life only because of this website, but the very point of this site is that kind of connection.

Anna Karenina, Revolutionary Road, Middlesex, Lolita, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Nose, The Awakening, Ariel, Long Division, White Teeth, Half of a Yellow Sun, all of Dickinson. Also if you love The Mighty Boosh, Arrested Development, IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Community, The Office, 30 Rock, or Black Books we will probably get along.