CURRENT MISSION

Spread beauty! Love! Truth! And good music!

ABOUT ME

In short, I am a dork.
To expand that a little... I love good music, good food, good conversation, traveling, photography, playing guitar, cooking, going out and dancing, and.. Jazzercise! I've grown up moving around a lot -- my family and I have lived in Alaska (where I was born), Virginia, Sweden, Poland, Kansas, England, and now Kentucky. My family is Polish, and I've grown up surrounded by wonderful, intelligent, open-minded, adventurous people, and I would love to get to know more through Couch Surfing.

I absolutely love to sing. I'm actually going to Sweden this summer (2010) to record a demo CD, and then after I graduate university, I plan on taking a year off to try out the music business in London before continuing my education by getting my Masters in Cultural Anthropology at Oxford University.

PHILOSOPHY

"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

~ Christopher McCandless, 1992

Interests

Music, music, music! Cooking, baking, Jazzercise, photography, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, directing, painting, making collages, skiing, snowboarding, climbing, taking as many different roads as possible ("when in doubt, take a left!"), reading, writing, playing guitar, playing piano, meeting other musicians, meeting other people with seriously itchy feet =], TEA!

• writing
• singing
• photography
• beauty
• dancing
• education
• dining
• cooking
• baking
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• guitar
• piano
• surfing
• skiing
• snowboarding
• rock climbing
• anthropology
• business
• teaching
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Into the Wild, Trainspotting, V for Vendetta, LOTR, Harry Potter, Perfume, Slumdog Millionaire, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, He's Just Not That Into You, Tropic Thunder, A Waking Life, Pride and Prejudice, The Pianist, White Christmas, Singin' in the Rain, Fight Club, Hot Fuzz, Kick-Ass

Music: Radiohead!!!! McFly, Eva Cassidy, Ray LaMontagne, Bon Iver, City and Colour, Citizen Cope, MGMT, The Kooks, John Mayer, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Imogen Heap, Eddie Vedder, Kings of Leon, Bob Dylan, Rufus Wainwright, Sum 41, The Pretty Reckless, Dixie Chicks (I have a very wide range of musical interest, haha!)

Books: Into the Wild, Wicked, Sophie's World, Pride and Prejudice, The Know-It-All

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was in Paris two summers ago on Bastille Day by accident, and I ended up right under the very center of the Eiffel Tower for the fireworks show. It was absolutely breathtaking. And romantic, of course =]

There are so many amazing things I've been blessed to see.. I could write a whole essay =]