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Overview

  • 5 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Hindi, Spanish
  • 34, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • Student
  • Kalamazoo College
  • From Amherst, MA U.S.A.
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To live like I mean it.

ABOUT ME

"I have lived so much that someday they will have to forget me forcibly, rubbing me off the blackboard. My heart was inexhaustible." -Pablo Neruda

PHILOSOPHY

"If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you recognize that your liberation and mine are bound up together, we can walk together." -Lila Watson

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've just started using couch surfing, but I can't wait to use it more often! I love meeting new people and seeing new places.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfing in S.E. Asia, no hosting yet, but hopefully soon!

Interests

any sort of adventure...

(graphic design, grafiti, anthropology, gender studies, photography, linguistics, playing ultimate, running, cooking, yoga, ceramics, environmentalism, Buddhism, teaching.)

  • design
  • graphic design
  • photography
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • running
  • pottery
  • surfing
  • buddhist
  • anthropology
  • gender studies

Music, Movies, and Books

I'll read any book I can get my hands on! some favorites:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being -Milan Kundera
The Inheritance of Loss -Kiran Desai
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay

All sorts of music - I love to hear new stuff. Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bob Dylan, Iron and Wine, The National, and A Tribe Called Quest are some good ones.

Anything Wes Anderson directed :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Secoya community in the Amazon
The River Ganga in India

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Ecuador, Italy, Laos, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Thailand, United States

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