CURRENT MISSION

Integrate into beautiful portland!

ABOUT ME

I just spent the summer working as a guide in Costa Rica for Rustic Pathways, a community service and adventure travel program for high school students. I have been fascinated with Latin America since I was 14, volunteering in Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and then spending 4 months working for a foundation for street kids in Ecuador. After finishing my job in August with Rustic, I embarked on a three month backpacking trek through South America with my best friend and just returned in December! I am now hoping to find a job working for a non-profit in Portland. Until then, I plan to work however I can, perhaps as a waitress and/or bartender, which I did all throughout school and always found to be a ton of fun and a great way to meet new people.

PHILOSOPHY

appreciate as much as you can-you never realize how blessed you are. who knows about what happens next, but this is the only life i know i have so why not just go for it, be and do and live the way i want to while living consciously with those around me and trying to do whatever i can to contribute to those around me

Interests

Photography, yoga, reading, hiking, skiing, scubadiving, writing, rowing, swimming, rock wall climbing

• arts
• writing
• photography
• yoga
• reading
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• backpacking
• skiing
• sports
• rock climbing
• swimming
• rowing
• tourism
• volunteering
• adventure travel

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: I heart huckabees, elephant, american history x, love actually, the usual suspects, hedwig and the angry inch, motorcycle diaries, pan's labrynth, the last king of scotland,

books: people of paper, perfume, island, curious incident of the dog in the nigthtime, slaughterhouse five, blindness, franny and zooey, the things they carried, the bee season, american pastoral, their dogs came with them. everything is illluminated, and of course the lovely bones

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bolivia's salt flats/geysers/incredible blood red lagoons were pretty remarkable...my whole trip in South America was mind blowing-going down into working mines in Potosi, doing crazy 9 hour hikes throughout indigenous communities in Peru, getting "adopted" by an indigenous woman for the day for Day of the Dead, having monkeys sit on my head-just witnessing how other people live, talk, share traditions, etc.

Teach, Learn, Share

teach: yoga, spanish

learn: anything you got-art or sport, especially if it involves the outdoors

share: anything that is different between the top two or anything else you find interesting

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Spain, Thailand, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

Costa Rica, Ecuador, United States

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