HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I hope to encourage people to seek the world around them, to step outside of the their comfort zone, and find there are still those willing to help. That everyone has something to offer and is worth learning from, and that building a global community will further cultural understanding and respect for everyone. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I attended a Sabbath dinner hosted by a family in Israel. My sister and I stayed with a woman in Switzerland, and I have met some couch surfers my parents hosted.

Sunrise at Mt. Masada, the poverty of Haiti, reading a book in the Champs de Mars, visiting the Collesium in Rome, walking through the Souk in Tunisia, and many other opportunities my family has been wonderful to provide for me.