ABOUT ME

That Im little, friendly, a book-worm, energetic, hardworking, super outgoing and adventurous!

Interests

My most strong interest is in literature and language. Reading a book is when I am most at peace and most challenged to think and experience, all at the same time. My interests in this area are many; fiction and non-fiction as well as literary/art criticism are all equally enthralling for me. Wider subjects like a specific author or event often take over my life for periods of time and I spend as much time in the library as possible looking up all forms of media until I feel full and satisfied with information. I also love doing nice things for other and engaging them in conversation. Being social is key to my happiness and I try to leave others more enriched for having known me, as I always feel more enriched for having spent time with them. I also love to paint (oil and watercolor), listen to music, dance, and watch a good long movie like lord of the rings. I endeavor overall to keep life interesting every day by planning wild and adventurous trips and occasions for me and mine, and seeing/experiencing new things.

• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• beauty
• dancing
• reading
• painting
• drawing
• music
• swimming
• communications
• beaches

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My mother and father were both born in Budapest. Hungary. Both sides of my family had to escape from their country during the Russian Occupation of 1956. It was a hard trial for all of my relatives and it is rarely spoken of in my family, but I was able to visit Budapest in 2007. When I disembarked from the plane and exchanged my euros for the forint, I remember almost reeling from the fact that I had just arrived in comfort on a plane to my homeland, to a place my mother and father had to fight to leave. It was a very real moment for me.
My best friend since I was a very small child and I were once in Cinque-Terre, Italy together. We adventured out onto not-so-accessible rocky beach, enticed by a dreamy looking cave that seemed almost in swimming distance. After hanging out on the beach for a while, we started to walk along the shore, trying to get as far as we could before hitting the water. If we seemed close to the cave then we agreed to try to swim to it. We realized it was going to much harder than we thought when the shore ended and we had to swim from rock to rock, keeping to the edge of the land. The sea and plant life was wild, it felt like we were on another world. The waves were pushing us up against the side of the cliff and getting wilder and wilder. I was scared, but re kept going until we stopped on one of the largest rocks. We climbed all the way to the top of this rock, tired and scraped up. The waves were too rough to keep going, so we just enjoyed the end of the day sunshine and threw rocks out as far into the sea as we could. It was one of the scariest and most physical things Ive ever put myself through, and the view was very worth it.
When I lived in Aix-en-Provence I studied at the Marchutz School of Art for painting and drawing. One day for class they took us out to Mount St. Victoire to paint the same scene Cezanne painted in some of his works. When I looked up at that mountain and the humble scene around it, with simple, confident old chateaus dotting the landscape, it felt like I could be there at any time in the past 400 years and it would look the same. The present seemed to waver and I was overwhelmed by the timeless beauty of it all.

Countries I’ve Visited

Italy, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States