Hi!

I'm a nerd about all kinds of things- food/cooking, board games, Harry Potter o' course, reading in general, and much more. I'm in my second year as an English language teaching assistant in Madrid, and am excited to explore more of this beautiful city/country and the world in general :).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love trying to get a real sense of a place when I travel- what average people's daily lives are like, how do the people see the world differently than I might be used to, etc, and the best way to do that seems to be immersing myself in a place by meeting locals so I'm trying to do that more even though I have some shy-at-first tendences :).

I've had roommates host many people on CS in our apartment and I'd like to be open to hosting myself.

Interests

• cats
• dancing
• cooking
• yoga
• reading
• hiking
• swimming
• anthropology
• astronomy
• teaching
• archaeology
• activism
• feminism
• harry potter
• learning
• hula hooping
• dinosaurs
• sunsets
• fossils
• floating
• dank memes
• shower thoughts
• dumplings across cultures
• killing time until i'm hungry again

Music, Movies, and Books

Musics: Broken Bells, Cake, Beck, Cold War Kids, Coldplay, Elbow, Ellie Goulding, Feist, Fiona Apple, Florence and The Machine, Gorillaz, Janelle Monae, Johnny Cash, Lorde, Loreena McKennitt, Marina and The Diamonds, Modest Mouse, OutKast, Pomplamoose, Queen, R.E.M., Regina Spektor, Tame Impala, The Pogues, The Rolling Stones, The Strokes, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Movies: Bridget Jones' Diary, Selma, American History X, anything Nic Cage is in, anything Sharknado, L'auberge Espagnole, Matilda, Mean Girls, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, When Harry Met Sally, Stepbrothers, The Boat that Rocked, What Happened, Miss Simone?

Books: Oh god. umm Jitterbug Perfume, Adventure Time comics, March, God of Small Things, Tiny Beautiful Things, The Book of Lost Things, HP obvs, Radical Acceptance, Hamlet, Star Girl, and my memory is terrible so there are tons of others but that's all for now.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Held galaxies in my hands- or at least that's what it seemed like to hold water full of bioluminescent algae up to my eyes on late summer nights in Sarasota (Florida).

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach- well I hope to be a proper teacher one day so a bit of everything :). Basic cooking, useless Harry Potter trivia, appreciation of accidental puns, how to get lost, etc.

Learn- oh man all of the things. Spanish! How to roll my Rs, how to raise one eyebrow, and I'd like to more completely learn how to whistle.

Share- food!, recipes, favorite spots in parks, maaaybe books but I'm protective of them :).

What I Can Share with Hosts

Snacks from Madrid, nerdy enthusiasm, card/board games.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Canada, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Panama, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United States