HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I love having people in my home and since experiencing couchsurfing in Italy on a trip in 2011 I am more enthused about this network than ever! I plan on joining the Tucson couchsurfing network and will try to connect with fellow surfers on my visits to Canada as well. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I grew up in a home where we constantly had boarders or people from other countries and places staying for a night, a week, a year. I continued that practice when I had my own home, providing a home for people from Germany, Ethiopia, Ukraine and hosting people from many places in between. When traveling as a child across Canada and the States, we more often stayed in people's homes than in hotels. I just returned from a trip to Italy and met some absolutely amazing people through couch surfing! From a wonderful stay in the mountain town of Monzuno with a wonderful couchsurfer and her daughters, to tours of Rome and Venice with interesting and informative couchsurfers, to a group meeting with a number of young and adventurous couchsurfers in Palermo... I have had only positive and terrific couch surfing experiences!!!

Any music that you can dance to: jazz, blues, rock, latin, etc. Any music you can listen to: classical, jazz, easy listening, etc. Country when I'm in the mood or there is someone who can two-step up a storm!! Movies? Your typical 'chick flicks', comedies, some action, foreign films. Books? I guess I'm a bit of a snob... your maeve binchy, new york bestsellers are not my idea of a great read. I love Canadian authors, and my favourite book is usually the one I'm reading at the moment.