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Overview

  • 13 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Chinese, Spanish
  • 44, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Teacher
  • Masters in Education
  • From Galesburg, Illinois USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Quit my job and travel as much as possible in the next year.

ABOUT ME

I am spontaneous, open-minded, loyal and positive. I like to have fun, seek out authentic experiences and try new things. Love photography and traveling. Love being outdoors and in nature.

PHILOSOPHY

Travel, laugh and live each day as its your last. Take each experience for what it is, good or bad. Try everything once and overcome your fears. Give more than you take.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love traveling and meeting new friends along the way so couchsurfing has been a perfect platform for this!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been quite lucky to have experienced some amazing hospitality couchsurfing and met some new friends for life!

Interests

Photography and traveling. Teaching/working with little kids. Dancing, good food and adventure. Camping, hiking and outdoors.

Music, Movies, and Books

Tracy Chapman is my all time favorite but also loving Adele, Florence and the Machine, MGMT, Kings of Leon, Coldplay, Pheonix at the moment. As far as books, I love biographies and memoirs- books that are real life accounts that I can learn from.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Silk Road- camping in the sand dunes of the Gobi desert. Hiking, camping and canyoning throughout Jordan. A 5 day Indian wedding celebration. Volunteering with students who live in the slums of India. Hot air ballooning in Cappadocia. Climbing Mt. Batur with my father.Trekking to Batad rice terraces in Northern Philippines. And the Tracy Chapman show in San Fran at the intimate Filmore. Had goosebumps the entire concert. LOVE.

Teach, Learn, Share

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, Fiji, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Thailand, United States

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