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Nashville, Tennessee, United States
@BZAC
Member since 2008
CURRENT MISSION Making my Nashvegas home home again ABOUT ME Originally from Music City, USA, I recently left Portland, OR where I lived for 5 1/2 years (I still have great friends there). I just returned to Nashville, as of 10/08, from a 6 month jaunt through Europe - thanks in large part to Couch Surfing and WWOOF (volunteering on organic farms)! Community is important to me - either by living with others and sharing resources and other parts of our lives or simply by being part of a conscious, caring, creative and responsible group of folks. Creativity, expressing ourselves, art, celebrating life - not sure how else to say it - are essential to my soul's well-being. So I am usually up for live music or dancing/acting like a fool! PHILOSOPHY Live it up!
Interested in Art
Fluent in English
Learning Spanish
2 Vouches
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Couch-surf ho in Europe - now it's time to reciprocate! (at least through offering coffee, drink). Later (or sooner, depending on when I find a job and my own place to live) I will offer couch space. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I stayed on couches, floors, mattress pads, inflatables, hammocks, etc. I have hosted a bit - before joining CS.
Music, Movies, and Books
Books: 500 Minutes to Christ - Poe Ballantine; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safron Foer. Milan Kundera - the Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle. movies: many. Music: singer-song-writer stuff like Bruce Cockburn, Steve Earl, Patty Griffin; also alternative, like Yo La Tengo, Wilco, old REM; Indy Pop, like Death Cab for Cutie, Laura Veirs, dance music, the song titles of which I don't know the names.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Swam in chilly NW Pacific waters, participated in Naked Bike Ride Portland, 2007 (it was a balmy night - I had to find some way to cool off!), ran a marathon in 2002, finishing before the coach of the Tennessee Titans; paraglided in Eastern Czech Republic (Thank you Petr, CS Host in Zlin!)
Teach, Learn, Share
How to throw a frisbee overhand, some Catholic stuff in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, English, a few yoga poses, guitar chords. I would like to learn more French, German, Spanish and other languages.
My Interests
Writing songs on guitar (depending on if I am disciplined enough to follow through), politics local and global, eating rich food (including but not limited to cookies and milk), running, hiking, the occasional pick-up Ultimate Frisbee game, biking, dancing, reading.
