CURRENT MISSION

Explore Europe as cheaply, with utmost adventure and charm!

ABOUT ME

Hello! I am beginning Medical School this June, and have been working 80+ hours a week the past 6 months to afford a tour of Europe before a life of non-stop studying ensues. I have never been overseas, and see this time as the perfect season in my life to explore the world. I don't simply want to visit counties, but rather, desire to really experience the culture of the land, totally engaged. I have never used couchsurfing before, so this is an exciting time- and I am hoping for the best! Countries I plan to visit over the next 6 weeks include Israel, Greece, and Turkey.

PHILOSOPHY

Love, as Christ has. As simple, and as hard as that.

We fret over the sins of the body. But consider the sins of the heart. Consider how painful it must be for God to encounter a right-living body and a cold heart. Give God a warm heart, and a righteous life will emerge.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd love to take anyone out for a cuppa joe, or if ya need a lift from the MCI airport- i'm your girl! Life is all about relationship, so let's share in our comforts and struggles.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couch surfed in Israel, Jordan and Greece!

Interests

Goodness. So many.

• culture

Music, Movies, and Books

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to
walk
on
your
knees

for
a
hundred
miles
through
the
desert,
repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body 
love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile
the
world
goes
on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
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

I'm bit of a sucker for poetry.

Teach, Learn, Share

Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness

"Every year we have been witness to it: how the world descends into a rich mash, in order that it may resume. And therefore who would cry out to the petals on the ground to stay, knowing as we must, how the vivacity of what was is married to the vitality ofwhat will be? I don’t say it’s easy, but what else will do if the love one claims to have for the world be true? So let us go on, cheerfully enough, this and every crisping day, though the sun be swinging east, and the ponds be cold and black, and the sweets of the year be doomed."

-- The Great Mary Oliver