CURRENT MISSION

My mission is to enjoy my life and learn some while doing it! I hope that couchsurfing will add to that--looking forward to meeting cool people who love to travel as much as I do.

ABOUT ME

I value my friendships and relationships above most everything. I love what I learn from people and experiences. That is why I am studying to become a therapist and also why I love travel and roadtrips. I also LOVE to dance. In the last year I also started playing guitar and writing music--so happy I finally did that--a great outlet.

PHILOSOPHY

The more I challenge myself to grow and change, the more life reveals itself to me. There is always more, and that's what I love.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have always loved to travel, and think couchsurfing is the best idea! I am looking forward to surfing on my upcoming roadtrip, and hosting once I get back.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have couch surfed a lot with friends and friends of friends. It always makes the trip better--you get to know a place much more intimately than if you just stayed at a hotel or hostel.

Interests

Working with kids, dance, body-awareness, going to see live music, having potlucks with friends, going out for a beer, hiking (love the Bay Area for that!), playing guitar, getting addicted to one TV show at a time and watching the whole thing on DVD, travel, languages, cooking.

• writing
• dancing
• cooking
• beer
• tv
• traveling
• eating out
• music
• live music
• guitar
• hiking
• surfing
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Iron and Wine, Nick Drake, All My Pretty Ones, Ani DiFranco, Greg Brown, The Magnetic Fields, Mississippi John Hurt, BB King, Nina Simone, Quinn DeVeaux, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, The California Honeydrops, Sean Hayes, Bob Dylan, Mazzy Star, Django Reinhart.

Books: Blindness, The Dharma Bums, The Secret Life of Bees, The House of the Spirits, The Catcher in the Rye, all Herman Hesse, I Know this Much is True, Three Junes, Middlesex, The Grapes of Wrath, The Golden Notebook.

Movies: Crazy Heart, Wonder Boys, Together, Amelie, Serenity (whole Firefly series), L'Auberge Espagnole, The Matrix.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I led a group on teenagers around China for a month. We stayed in a Hmong village for a week, and it was amazing to see the way we all opened up to such a different pace of life.

Teach, Learn, Share

Your body has a lot of wisdom. You can notice and alter your state of mind through bringing awareness to the body.

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