CURRENT MISSION

To make you smile - really smile.

ABOUT ME

I. Love. Traveling. Always have. I'm fairly quiet (I have a few close friends) and more a café person than a pub person, but I'm friendly, and I'm pretty much always up for an adventure (including skydiving). I love meeting new people from all over the world. Heaven is either a good book, some hot chocolate, and a big overstuffed chair, or a walk through incredible scenery while having a deep conversation with a good friend.

PHILOSOPHY

Happiness comes from helping other people - I try to keep my mind on serving others in any way I can.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm still pretty new to couch surfing, but I hope to host people who want to visit Boston - feel free to send a message!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couch surfed for a few days in Bergen, Norway in October 2009 and had a fantastic time. Would like to host Boston visitors.

Interests

Reading, writing, choral music, traveling, museums, meeting new people, having awesome experiences, seeing beautiful places, learning random things in other languages (I can say "I can't carry that on my head" in Shona and "He says that's my sheep, but that is not my sheep" in Icelandic, for example).

• writing
• books
• chocolate
• pub crawls
• reading
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• skydiving
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES:
Salmer fra kjøkkenet (Kitchen Stories)
Mies vailla menneisyyttä (The Man Without a Past)
Äideistä parhain (Mother of Mine)
Pretty much any British period drama (Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Cranford)
Chicken Run
Various foreign (to Americans) films

MUSIC:
Classical and choral works
ABBA
Shakira
Mika
Random mellow and/or quirky stuff

BOOKS:
C. S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity
The Harry Potter books
All Jane Austen books (except Northanger Abbey)
E. M. Forster: A Room with a View
Philip Barlow (edited): A Thoughtful Faith: Essays on Belief by Mormon Scholars
Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses
Wallace Stegner: Angle of Repose
Marilynne Robinson: Gilead
Jon McCullough: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Åsne Seierstad: The Bookseller of Kabul
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
Jon Scieszka: The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Paolo Coehlo: Veronika Decides to Die
Charlotte Brontë: Villette
Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Just one? - I went skydiving in September 2010, and it was awesome.

Teach, Learn, Share

I teach people to write better in English for a living and I love it - I'd love to help you.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Finland, France, Iceland, Kenya, Netherlands, Norway, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United Kingdom, United States

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