CURRENT MISSION

To add to my "I've done that" list

PHILOSOPHY

"I live chaos, it's more fun that way: you never know what's going to happen next and half the time you can't remember what you just did."

And on occasion: "You need to smack them until they listen!" - words of advice given to a friend from a Tongan lady (She was talking about whiny kids, but quite frankly, I think you could apply it to just about anything these days!)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

A friend of mine once raved about Couchsurfing and I've been a supporter ever since. If I can't give someone a place to stay, I'm more than happy to give as much info as I can about wherever I am. Be prepared for my opinions, too!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I used to live really far outside of town, so I would live vicariously through other volunteers' experiences and meet their Couchsurfers. I hope to get more involved now that that situation has been changed! And I've been lucky enough to meet some really fun people when I had the chance to surf in NZ! And I kinda surfed in Samoa too ... but I was staying with other Peace Corps volunteers, so that's cheating a little.

Interests

I dabble in a little bit of everything and a lot of nothing at all just to say that I've been there and done that.

• fishing
• skydiving
• hang gliding

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Things done: worked for Peace Corps in Tonga; narrowly survived 16 straight years of school; went skydiving in Hawaii and hang gliding in Brazil; palmed the Naked Cowboy's ass in Times Square; jumped off the Kawarau Bridge and swam with seals in New Zealand; swam with bullsharks in Beqa Lagoon, Fiji; walked lava fields in Samoa; bummed around the Philippines with family; sold jewelry on cruise ships in the Caribbean ...

Things seen: the fishing pigs of Talafo’ou (no lie, it's in the Tonga Lonely Planet

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Costa Rica, Fiji, France, New Zealand, Philippines, Samoa, Spain, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea, Tonga, United States