**Traveling until after the holidays**

I have the tendency to move a lot, so I'm currently in the process of dwindling my belongings down to only what I can fit in my car. Perhaps I'm a bit restless... Luckily my job keeps my physical body moving: I'm a certified Iyengar yoga instructor.

**Update: After a lovely 9 months in Portugal, I've now landed in South Korea. I'll be teaching English here for the next year!**

I try to stay healthy through yoga and being conscious about the foods I cook and eat. Unfortunately where I'm living now I do not have a garden, but I'd like to own and tend a garden again someday.

This summer and fall I've been learning to sail! It's my dream to one day own my own sailboat. Perhaps even live on one. I'm also learning to play the ukulele. Sailing around the world playing my uke would be delightful...

Overall, if I didn't have to do things like pay bills, I'd ideally love to spend my time traveling, meeting new people and drinking red wine with them, and listening to podcasts when moving about alone.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I might have a couch for you to crash on depending on my housemates. Otherwise I'm up for meeting up on the weekends. I'm new to the area so I wouldn't be much of a tour guide yet, but I'd be interested in exploring with you!

Interests

Yoga - obviously. Traveling - again, obvious. Podcasts! I love National Public Radio (NPR) podcasts like This American Life, Planet Money, and Radiolab. I'm especially drawn to Radiolab because it blends science with the bigger questions that science often fails to answer completely. It fits my personality well: I'm analytical and skeptical, yet I believe in so much more than I can rationally explain.
The TED radio hour podcast.
The Moth podcast - true stories told live without notes!

Other interests:
Sailing
Dancing - house music, salsa, and forro dancing!!

• dancing
• cooking
• wine
• red wine
• yoga
• instructor
• drinking
• gardening
• traveling
• podcasts
• music
• sailing
• skydiving
• science
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Books:
Saudade - by Katherine Vaz; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - by Jonathan Safran Foer; The Grass is Singing - by Doris Lessing; Catcher in the Rye - by J.D. Salinger; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - by Robert Pirsig; Lila - by Robert Pirsig; Life of Pi - by Yann Martel; The Poisonwood Bible - by Barbara Kingsolver; Prodigal Summer - by Barbara Kingsolver; The Glass Castle - by Jeannette Walls; A Walk in the Woods - by Bill Bryson; Banker to the Poor - by Muhammad Yunus; and many many many more!

Music interests:
The National; Chet Faker; Lana Del Ray; The Black Keys; Ryan Adams; First Aid Kit; The Lumineers; Ray Lamontagne; Jem; The Temper Trap; M.I.A; Amy Winehouse; Buraka Som Simstema; Interpol; Cake; Frou Frou; Rachael Yamagata; Midlake; Modest Mouse; Regina Spektor; Spoon; Erykah Badu; Beth Orton; and others I can't think of right now!

Love dancing to house music and also forro dancing!

Favorite movies...
That make me laugh: Old School; Office Space; Anchor Man; The Office (TV)

On a more serious side: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; What the Bleep Do We Know?!; Food Inc.;

That I enjoyed as a kid: Blues Brothers; Adventures in Babysitting; Mannequin - give me a break, I was 6 when that movie came out.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Snorkeled with sharks! Skydiving from 14,500ft. Most recently - seeing Machu Picchu at sunrise.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Belize, China, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Sweden, Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Portugal, South Korea, United States

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