5/6/16-- Hello Nantucket surfers! I am sorry for not updating sooner, but I moved back to Portland awhile ago. Good luck on your search and please give that island a kiss from me :)

CURRENT MISSION

Knit everyone I love a pair of socks.

ABOUT ME

24 year old artist from a small town in Connecticut transplanted to Portland, OR. Somewhere in the middle of a miserable college experience I realized that I didn't want a comfortable job at the expense of my soul (trivia: I worked as a theme park character in high school and it was probably the best job I have ever had). I finished my studies, bicycled across the US with an amazing nonprofit (www.bikeandbuild.org), and took my first real job as a wardrobe hand in a traveling circus. I've since left the job for other opportunities (making tiny costumes for a stop-motion animation film studio in Portland and production hand weaving on an island off of Cape Cod among them), but have continued the momentum of living intentionally. I want to meet good people, move through good places, and return any bit of that goodness that I can... and maybe cook you dinner. Let's be friends-- call me Brit.

PHILOSOPHY

I want to quote something dramatic like "You don't save your soul just painting everything white" but I'm honestly not sure I can answer this seriously in a few words without making myself laugh

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surf. Host.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed my way through Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, France, England, and Scotland for 2 months. No negative experiences!

Interests

• reading
• knitting
• live music
• art
• adventure
• local food
• whales
• bicycling
• performance
• textiles
• weaving

Music, Movies, and Books

For books, almost ANYTHING by Kurt Vonnegut but also: Joseph Heller, "Catch-22", Ana Castillo "So Far From God", Mikhail Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita", Roberto Bolaño, Haruki Murakami... so, so many but I do gravitate toward the magical realists and absurdists.
I'm still waiting to grow out of my punk phase of music and will forever love the Clash-- but also love TV on the Radio, Santigold, The Rapture and the like.
Movies: The Fall (swoon!), Blade Runner, The Life Aquatic, Spirited Away

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I biked across the United States with 32 strangers-turned-family as soon as I graduated... but I also once held a hummingbird in the palm of my hand.

Teach, Learn, Share

I would love, love, love to learn how to communicate in more languages and am hoping the immersion will help. I can teach you to sew, knit, and make soup-- Grandma 101 :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Netherlands, Peru, Scotland, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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