CURRENT MISSION

share my joy

ABOUT ME

I come from a small town in New Jersey, and moved out to California in August '10 to work for a non-profit called City Year. I lived in east LA and tutored/mentored students in a 6th grade class for 10 months, which was the hardest but greatest experience I've had so far. My time spent there has left me with the desire to travel to impoverished areas and help people in any way I can. I've got big dreams and endless plans, but hardly any general direction. I love music and dancing, singing and experiencing different cultures, beliefs and ideas. i'm trying to learn guitar right now and working on getting some gear to start surfing as well.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

spreadin' the love

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I blindly moved to Santa Cruz in August '11, ironically choosing it because it was the only community college in California that offered a student housing building (that wasn't in the middle of nowhere)but realized i couldn't afford it, so i couch surfed for a month before finding a new place to settle down. i met really awesome people and have returned the favor as much as possible since then!

Interests

conversations; learning about people and their experiences/ideas/talents, reading, red wine, woods, water, coffee, fields,being taught something new, bonfires, guitar, hiking, beer, flowers, laughing

• singing
• dancing
• wine
• red wine
• beer
• coffee
• flowers
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• surfing
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

bob dylan, modest mouse, fleetwood mac, the doors, the beatles, pink floyd, iron & wine, gorillaz, cave singers,the decemberists,janis joplin, jimi hendrix, led zeppelin, bright eyes, grateful dead, dubstep, sublime, monsters of folk, trampled by turtles, simon and garfunkel, cream, ccr...

the celestine prophecy, into the wild, no one here gets out alive, on the road, ginsberg's early journals..

always down for some movies

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

the desert mountains

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States