I am newly back on couchsurfing after a long hiatus - I am about to travel internationally for the first time since 2019, for pleasure for the first time since 2017. I am treating myself to a big 30th-birthday (slash, post-breakup slash post-pandemic-shutdown) trip and excited at the prospect of couchsurfing again!

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

The thing I love most about traveling is meeting real people from the area that I am in - I don't want to sugarcoat my vacations with 5-star hotels and guided tours around the capital (besides the fact that I can't afford it). I would rather hear about real experiences and find hidden gems, and couchsurfing is definitely a way to do that.

兴趣

I'm a theatre nerd - I love seeing shows, working on shows, talking shop, listening to soundtracks, just being in general theatre-like spaces. I like running and thunderstorms and love when the two come together. I like exploring and am always up for hiking an unknown path or roaming around ruins.

• hiking
• theatre

音乐、电影和书籍

I'll listen to anything that's not twangy country or screamo. My current go-to is George Ezra - he's just the one person I can go to when nothing else seems right.

Movies: I'm not super in to blood and gore, I can watch Disney any day, and I'm a fan of a lot of movies in between

Books: Catcher in the Rye, anything Jodi Picoult, anything Johnathan Safran Foer. I'm currently reading the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, and interspersing it with a healthy mix of fiction and nonfiction that have been on my list.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Lived in a village of ~1500 in rural Armenia for two years, volunteering as an English teacher.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

Armenian language, history, culture; Stories from an Armenian English classroom; Stories from New York theater; A hockey game watching companion

我游览过的国家

Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Nepal, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Norway, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden

我居住过的国家

Armenia, United States