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  • Fluent in English, French
  • 33, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • French teacher
  • College
  • From Chicago, IL
  • Profile 65% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Explore cities in the U.S. and throughout the world

ABOUT ME

All about the experiences. I put pressure on myself to work hard. I am always analyzing and appreciating. I love being on the same wavelength as people (high and low frequency).

I'm a very curious person both in terms of getting to know people and exploring new interests and ideas.

I write the letter "s" beginning from the bottom instead of the top. Apparently that's rare!

I'm a feminist who cares deeply about social issues and social justice.

I'm deeply obsessed with Lena Dunham.

PHILOSOPHY

I am very ambitious and adventurous. I like to try new foods, hobbies, languages, goals, etc. on a regular basis.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

At the moment, I am not able to host, but in the next 6 months (by October 2013), I will hopefully be able to host.

I'm looking to explore more cities in the U.S. on a regular basis, and then I have the opportunity to, I will return back to Europe, and eventually explore other continents, too!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I do not have any experience couchsurfing.

Interests

knitting, art, film, literature, dogs, walking, running

  • dogs
  • arts
  • literature
  • poetry
  • running
  • walking
  • knitting
  • piano
  • teaching
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Pride & Prejudice, Boule de Suif, Brideshead Revisited, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, 200 More Neo-Futurists Plays, The Bell Jar, The Stranger, An Underground Education, Les Identités Meurtrières, Lolita, Voyage au bout de la nuit, Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, Catch 22, Down and Out in Paris and London, Dubliners, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Rich Boy, Sylvia Plath's unabridged journals, A Room of One's Own, To The Lighthouse, A Room With A View, Kate Zambreno
My reading list is overwhelming
My favorite book is White Oleander
I believe that everyone should always be carrying a book on them.
Poets: Mary Fons, Dorothy Parker
Online Journals: The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Economist, The New Inquiry

Music:
Always and no matter what aka she is my queen forever and ever: Regina Spektor
I'm always discovering new music.
I have a last.fm: http://last.fm/user/unencumberdbird

Movies: Inception, La Faute à Fidel, Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du coran, Irréversible, V for Vendetta, Little Miss Sunshine, Kissing Jessica Stein, Annie Hall, The Business of Being Born, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Vicky Christina Barcelona, Manhattan, Inglourious Basterds, Goodbye Lenin, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pulp Fiction, An American in Paris, La Petite Jerusalem, Un amour de jeunesse, One That Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Godfather, Casablanca, La Règle du jeu, La Grande Illusion, Cabaret, Nuit et brouillard, Thelma & Louise, La Haine, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, The Kids Are All Right, When Harry Met Sally, Un Bout de souffle, Love and Death, Bonnie and Clyde, Tiny Furniture
My favorite genre of movies are documentaries. I also love foreign films.
I am a cinephile and I try to watch as many classics as possible. I keep track of the movies I watch.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in Paris for a year. It was the most difficult and rewarding experience that I'm still appreciating and understanding.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm actually a teacher of French, so that's an area where I'll always be a student and a teacher. I'm always teaching myself poetry, piano, running, and knitting.

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