CURRENT MISSION

Find the perfect nesting place

ABOUT ME

Candy, I love. The chewy kinds: worms, bears, rings (peach and apple) etc.

I speak softly.

My eyes make me think of Santa Claus.

I've got a huge crush on francophone North America...hoping one day to relocate and live in an city in which I could speak French on a habitual basis.

PHILOSOPHY

When I'm eighty years old I will be able to look at my life and neither regret nor want anything accomplished.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet!

Interests

My interests are varied and many, but focus upon food and music.

• dining
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES

Sophie's Choice, Untergang, Lola Rennt, Amadeus, Mrs. Dalloway, Goodbye Lenin, A Clockwork Orange, Two-Faced Woman, My Fair Lady, A Few Good Men, Goodbye Lenin!, Bourne Identity, Страна Глухих, Les Parapluies De Cherbourg, Le Fate Ignoranti, Pulp Fiction, Night of the Living Dead, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve (even better), Chansons d'amour

MUSIC

What I’m listening to now: Pauline Croze, Polarkreis 18, The Tiny, Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys, Mozart's Requiem Mass, Alphabeat, Elgar, Carmen Consoli, Paul Hébert, Tomek Makowiecki, Björk, Bach, Paganini, Sam Sparro, Imogen Heap, The Go! Team, Brand New, Feist, Pete Doherty, Blindside, Coldplay, Dave Brubeck (and his quartet), Bonnie Raitt, Shostakovich, Sigur Rós, Stan Getz, Joanna Newsom, Iron and Wine, STARS, Teitur, Tiromancino, João Gilberto (and his offspring), The Andrews Sisters, Peter, Bjorn & John, Giaccomo Puccini, Ratatat, The Postal Service, Regina Spektor, The Knife, Wir Sind Helden, Metric, Fiona Apple, Xiu Xiu, Yann Tiersen, Camille Saint-Saëns, dc, the kills, the octopus project, Santogold et alii

BOOKS

La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Josef Conrad's Heart of Darkness, James Michener's Poland, Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев: Отцы и дети (though admittedly, and previously mentioned, in English), Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha, Chuck Palahniuk's Choke/Fight Club/Stranger Than Fiction, Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Mines at Falun

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Mexico, Monaco, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Italy, United States