CURRENT MISSION

1000 paper cranes

ABOUT ME

I love to cook. And read. I love to read cookbooks! (And all sorts of books.) But seriously, I am a generally relaxed kind of person with a young at heart spirit. This means I get really excited about things like a good Disney movie or going to a cool zoo.

I like learning and I miss being school. I also like to party and have endless time to lounge around with my friends (another thing I miss about being in school!).

For the past six months or so I've been traveling. I left Louisiana and have made it through France, Germany, Italy, Greece and Egypt all the way to New Zealand. I find traveling exhilarating and eye-opening, but I find my heart truly lies at home. Home being my family and friends. I love to travel and then I love to go back to the people I love.

I enjoy reading about math and science, and I really want to go back to school so that I can study the brain.

PHILOSOPHY

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Been a surfer. Now trying hosting!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed in Paris a few times summer 2011.

Interests

Origami, baking, traveling, taking pictures, cooking, The New York Times, silly hats and wigs, costume parties, art (wishing I could make it), cats, someecards, music festivals and concerts, keeping a journal, psychology, recycling, books, Disney classics, trying to learn new languages, Scrabble, dinos, National Geographic, Cosmos (Carl Sagan), sending and receiving mail, card games, silly dancing, rhyming, laughing at funny stuff on the internet, hiking, swimming in the ocean, learning, exercising, maps

• cats
• arts
• humanities
• books
• concerts
• music festivals
• festivals
• dancing
• cooking
• cheese
• baking
• exercise
• partying
• reading
• traveling
• origami
• music
• hiking
• swimming
• cartography
• languages
• mathematics
• psychology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

(MUSIC) Yeasayer, Grizzly Bear, Girl Talk, TV on the Radio, Hot Chip, Passion Pit, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Outkast, Robert Randolph, Mumford and Sons, Sleigh Bells, Cut Copy, The National, Gaga, Jay-Z, Sufjan Stevens, The Shins, Yo-Yo Ma, John Williams, of Montreal, Ratatat, Morphine, Santogold, Phoenix, Cat Stevens, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Timestretch, Dog Days are Over, Young Folks +++++ (BOOKS) about psychology, genetics, the brain, sci-fi/fantasy like Tolkien or Heinlein, Vonnegut, Emerson, Thoreau, Mark Twain, other fiction, right now reading "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman (MOVIES) The Lion King, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rushmore, Princess Bride, Lethal Weapon, Love Actually, Let the Right One In, Labyrinth, As Good as it Gets, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Batman Begins

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sunrise, Bryce Canon National Park, Utah; Great Pyramids, Cairo, Egypt

Teach, Learn, Share

(skills) making paper cranes and macaroni and cheese, I do both gladly and often!

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States