CURRENT MISSION

to find a comfortable place on earth

ABOUT ME

This is so unfair to have to fit myself in a short description... but to try:

I am an education volunteer with the Peace Corps in Madagascar, after having spent a year with some fantastic CS-ers in Seattle, WA. Besides racking my brains out over the finer points of teaching ESL, I'm also an aspiring travel blogger/writer at (Beat Nomad) / biker / rock climber / human being.

Coffee, literature, upbeat people, and exploring the world all make me incredibly happy. Oh. And food. I adore food. Double Oh. Add Northwest beers. *sigh* le nostalgie...

PHILOSOPHY

Life is a journey.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

However I can!

I also partnered up with some friends to take over organizing my the weekly happy hour meet ups in Seattle... until I had to leave the city that is! (As is the nature of Couchsurfers...)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted some, surfed some, explored the world with others... loved it all

兴趣

I love: coffee, cooking, languages, traveling (no kidding...), yoga, rock climbing, biking, literature, the coffee shop across the street from my house, Seattle, my friends, my parent's porch, and music.

I dislike: impersonal interactions, misplaced punctuation marks, when people leave the "i" out of "Jessie", and being kept from peeing when I have to.

• writing
• literature
• education
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• coffee
• yoga
• happy hour
• shopping
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• rock climbing
• teaching
• languages
• volunteering

音乐、电影和书籍

Books: Milan Kundera, Jostein Gaarder, Joyce Carol Oates, A Long Way Gone, Conservation is Our Government Now, Hitchhikers Guide, y mas, y mas, y mas...

Music: some stuff with words, some stuff without...

Movies: Everything is Illuminated, anything with Humphrey Bogart, In a Lonely Place, Waking Life, Jeu D'enfants (Love Me if You Dare)

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I slept in the Sahara, and lived in a cloud forest... This whole world is pretty amazing.

教，学，和分享

I have been known to drunkenly teach Ukulele in Spanglish. I don't do either well.

我游览过的国家

Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands, U.S.

我居住过的国家

Costa Rica, Madagascar, Malta, United States

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