CURRENT MISSION

Finding a job in the areas I studied, learning to rock climb outside, getting poetry published

ABOUT ME

I love interesting conversations, adventures, meeting people, learning new things. I finished undergrad degrees in sociology and biology last winter, then volunteered at a farm and a girls' dormitory in Peru for a couple months. This gave me the travel bug, and now I want to go everywhere...met amazing people in Lima and the Sacred Valley.

PHILOSOPHY

The world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

-Mary Oliver

O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting
fingers of
prurient philosophers pinched
and
poked

thee
, has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy

beauty. how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and

buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
(but
true

to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover

thou answerest

them only with

spring)

-E.E. Cummings

...well basically, I think that the earth is a great place and many of the people on it are too :)

I've been trained as a scientist and love analyzing the world that way...but am over that for a while and would like to explore the other sides of things

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm pretty new to CS. I really love DC and would love to share that with folks who are new to here.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

An old friend from college is a couchsurfer and has been talking for ages about how great the community is. He invited me along to a couchsurfing event, and since then, I've met a bunch of DC couchsurfers, and he's right, they're great!

Interests

Everything outdoors. Hiking, swimming in lakes, sailing, canoeing, rock climbing. I love tossing a frisbee, singing with folks who play instruments, and trying out new recipes on anyone willing to eat them

• horses
• writing
• poetry
• singing
• beauty
• cooking
• recipes
• traveling
• socializing
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• canoeing
• sailing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• biology
• religion
• science
• sociology
• beaches
• lakes
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

At present: no movies because I'm trying to save money. Music: Tallest Man on Earth is a great musician and poet. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese makes me stay up reading till 2am when I have to get up for work the next day, so I think that means its good.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Backpacked the Absaroka Beartooth wilderness in Montana, where we saw no one outside of our group for the whole week, except for a man with very few teeth and a few horses he had along with him, it was that wild. Encountered a black bear in a river while skinny dipping. Spent 2 days alone & fasting on an island in Maine. Seen Macchu Picchu at dawn when mist is rising from the stones and the swallows are dive bombing the ruins and there's no human voices to cloud the feeling that you are in the presence of ghosts.

Been shown Puerto Rico and Peru by a couple of awesome families who adopted me, put up with my sometimes bad spanish, introduced me to all their friends and showed me the best mountains, beaches, and dive bars each place has to offer.

Teach, Learn, Share

swimming, creative writing, cooking

Countries I’ve Visited

Peru, Puerto Rico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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