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Overview

  • 4 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 41, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • working on a Master's degree in Medical Anthropology.
  • Formally, I've been educated in the fields of Music, Engl...
  • From Saskatoon, SK
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

get connected.

ABOUT ME

While pursuing formal education I've also had a variety of interesting educational occupations including:
-working on a apiary (bee farm)
-working at a grocery store
-Youth Program Coordinator (At Risk Youth Centre)
-several jobs as a personal care worker
-camp counsellor
-Program Assistant at Oxfam Canada
-Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant, Graduate Assistant

I've also had the chance to travel throughout Europe and the United States as well as teach in Ghana for several months.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have limited experience with CouchSurfing, but I'm looking forward to embracing it's amazing potential in the years to come.

Interests

I have a wide variety of interests including:

Meeting new, imaginative, creative people who love to conspire and dream of new worlds and alternative ways of living.

I also enjoy activism, painting, dancing, singing, board gaming, knitting, cooking, hiking, running, star gazing, reading, crafting and keeping in touch with amazing friends and family.

  • singing
  • dancing
  • education
  • cooking
  • running
  • reading
  • traveling
  • knitting
  • painting
  • hiking
  • camping
  • teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Joni Mitchell, Bjork, David Bowie, Animal Collective, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Beirut, Fleet Foxes, Neil Young, The Pixies, The Clash, Grizzly Bear, Explosions in the Sky, Fever Ray, Lauryn Hill, Marvin Gaye, Modest Mouse, Patrick Watson, Sufjan Stevens, The Velvet Underground, Ween, The Roots, The Talking Heads...

Books:
Oryx and Crake (Margaret Attwood), I Am David (Anne Holm), The The Wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon), Friction (Anna Tsing), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), The Diviners (Margaret Laurence), Wild Succulent Women (SARK), The Brother Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky), 1984 (George Orwell)...

Movies: I'm not as passionate about movies as the above two categories but these movies are among my faves:
Pride and Prejudice (BBC version), Temple, The Corporation, I Heart Huckabees, V for Vendetta, Amelie, Frida, I Heart Huckabees, A Christmas Carol, Blade Runner...

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Ghana, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada

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