CURRENT MISSION
To meet, greet, and seat (house) as many interesting, new, inventive, and amazing people as I can. I want to spread wealth, fortune, and happiness around the world, in my travels and in other's stays.

ABOUT ME
I am a nerd at times, weird, silly, funny, completely different, and altogether unique at times. I don't hold grudges. I try to find beauty in the small things in life and live to be creative in everything I do. I love photography and the wizardry of adobe creative suite. I love to design, sell, and convince others of things I'm not too entirely sure of myself. Life is a time to laugh and smile and wear those funny colored galoshes because that, and that alone, is will what make you, you.

Check out my website: www.k8gphotography.com

PHILOSOPHY
My personal philosophy is live life with ease - in pursuit of happiness. I never judge others before given a reason and I feel every single day is a chance for a new experiences, knowledge, and opportunity.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Simply... the people and my curiosity to simply understand the world around myself as best reflected by the vast similarities and minimal differences we all, around this great globe, posses.

It is remarkable how you learn to appreciate your culture more through seeing it through the eyes of a stranger and, simultaneously, understanding another's. I'm passionate about CS and I'm here to stay for as long as couches, floors, hammocks, lofts, tree forts and boats will have me.

Interests

Running long and short distances, computers, baking very tasty treats, snapshot photography, being the change I wish to see in the world, and being passionate about life, love and endless laughing.

• photography
• salsa dancing
• running
• reading
• hiking
• rock climbing
• volunteering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Mashups, Folk Music, Country, Classic Rock, Instrumental Hip Hop

Books (changes all the time, depending on what I've read recently): Siddhartha, Wild, Poor Economics, The Working Poor, and many more...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Summited Mount Kilimanjaro! What an amazing, painful and beautiful experience... Read more here http://www.katieonon.com/climbing-kilimanjaro/

Teach, Learn, Share

What I can teach: Diagnose issues of a computer, Photography 101, the passion and pursuit of running / hiking, how to bake a ridiculously tasty batch of Snickerdoodle cookies.

What I hope to learn: Your favorite recipe from home, your favorite musical artist, your favorite author that keeps you going in the worst of times, your favorite city to visit and finally, if you were a crayon, what color would you be?

What I Can Share with Hosts

What I can share:
- Music
- Photography
- Fixing Computers
- Candy. Because who doesn't love candy, right? ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Colombia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Peru, Romania, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Peru, United States

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