CURRENT MISSION

To visit everything, live everything, and eat everything that I can until I kick the bucket, so to speak

ABOUT ME

I'm a 23 year old student who loves music and zines and photography and making stuff and doing things. Right now I'm getting my MFA in creative nonfiction.

I also really really love eating.

PHILOSOPHY

Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Come stay with me! I live by Penn State.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couch surfed for the first time August 2010 in Seattle and it was amazing. People are skeptical but I believe in the couchsurfing project. I got to meet a lot of people and have experiences I never would have if I had stuck to hostels.

Interests

music, writing, lomography, zines, reading, eating, eating some more

• writing
• photography
• music festivals
• festivals
• chocolate
• reading
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

music: Broken Social Scene, Mumford & Sons, the New Pornographers, the Beatles, Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal, and more and more and more... also Lady Gaga

books: Tale of Two Cities always makes me cry, anything by Aimee Bender, anything about traveling

movies: Empire Records, Newsies, Little Miss Sunshine, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This is so cliche, but most of the awe-striking moments I've had were at music festivals-- there's something about a dirty writhing mass of thousands of people who love what you love, screaming out lyrics you all have memorized, and your eardrums are being blown out and someone is ripping your shirt off and you're undulating back and forth with the crowd-- amazing

Teach, Learn, Share

I can show you how to make a zine, how to create collages, and the best way to eat chocolate chip pancakes (with salsa. Don't hate.)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belize, Canada, Czech Republic, El Salvador, France, Greece, Honduras, Ireland, Mexico, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States