CURRENT MISSION

Pursuit of the ridiculous and absurd, climate justice & community energy. Eventually would like to be an art therapist.

ABOUT ME

Pretty uninhibited. Especially with paints and dancing.

STUDIES

BA Degree in Art History and Italian Studies.

PHILOSOPHY

Anything extreme is generally bad. Except for extreme Ironing and anything involving dressing up or costumes.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

With interest in cultural exchange, indigenous knowledge and local traditions. Respect for others and their accommodation. I try to be a humble white gringa who acknowledges her priviledge.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Stayed with two different hosts in Italy, had a fantastic time.

Interests

Like most things other than welks, the colour pink and football. Passion for cinema, photography, drawing, painting and dancing & singing with people.

I'm interested in interesting things. Like brains and things people do with them, nature and beats! BEATS; Afro/Latin/ Indian/electronic/orchestral.

• arts
• singing
• photography
• dancing
• tango
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• clothing
• movies
• painting
• drawing
• music
• soccer
• art history
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC
Pink Floyd
Amadou and Mariam
Above & Beyond
Air
Aether
Buraka Som Sistema
Balam Acab
Bon Iver
Bonobo
Burial
Dark Dark Dark
Dark Sky
James Brown
Peggy Lee
Aretha Franklin
Justice
Manu Chao
Sigur Ros
Santana
Radiohead
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Polica
and so on.

FILMS
Metropolis by Fritz Lang
Detachment
Rope by Hitchcock
La Grande Bellezza (Paolo Sorrentino)
The Shining
Caro Diario
I Pugni In Tasca
Vincere
Fargo
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Gran Torino
bla blaa blaaaaaaaaaaa.......

BOOKS
The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics by Adrian Parr
White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture by Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Being Wrong by Kathryn Schultz
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
Bullet Points by Mark Watson
Hole In My Life by Jack Gantos
Object Relations by Lavinia Gomez
(Blahh blahhh, well done if you got to this point.....)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

2 things: Went on a 7 day trek in the Pyrenees without enough food or clothing- very cold- 2000m above sea level.

Went on a hot-air ballooning with a 'splash and dash' in a lake and a brush with some trees.

Teach, Learn, Share

Special knowledge in mosquito-swatting, some (recently discovered, little known) English recipes, artistic theory and techniques, mask-making and use of materials and bronze casting.

Collaborative decision making, climate change, activism, cultural & political hegemony.

Fluent in Italian & dances a little tango.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cooking, music, artwork, photopgraphy, singing, talking, trying to understand life.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Barbados, China, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Italy, Mexico