CURRENT MISSION

Encouraging Honduran youth into becoming budding environmentalists

ABOUT ME

I love sneezing, books that make me cry, independence, travel, my city (Portland, Oregon), sustainability, conciousness, tree-huggers, tapirs (yes, the animal), the forest, and simply sitting still and watching the world pass by. I generally live in a state of being constantly, romantically overwhelmed by the world at large.

PHILOSOPHY

"Through communication alone can human existance have meaning" -Paulo Freire

"The only truly magical and poetic exchanges that occur in this life occur between two people. Sometimes it doesn´t get that far. Often, the true glory of existance is confined to individual conciousness. That´s ok, let us live for the beauty of our own reality." -Tom Robbins

"Who knows, maybe one day the world will wake up and burst out into beautiful flower of Dharma everywhere" -Jack Kerouac

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was graciously accepted into the homes of many fellow couch surfers while traveling in South America...and am anxiously awaiting the day I can be a host myself.

Interests

Riding bicycles, gardening, sustainability, permaculture, club sandwiches, cursing patriarchy, travel, constant lifelong learning, dancing unabashedly...

• animals
• books
• beauty
• dancing
• clubbing
• gardening
• flowers
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

Reality Bites, Powaqquatsi, 8 mile, Amelie, Dead Poet's Society, Goonies, Best in Show, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Princess Bride, Babe

The Dismemberment Plan, Ida, Modest Mouse, Mishka, Black Star, Ghanaian Hiplife, Dar Williams, The Sump Pumps, Elliot Smith, The Cure, The Mountain Goats, Geof Farina, Ted Nugent, Rancid

Dharma Bums, the autobiography of malcom x, Sidhartha, White Noise, Franny and Zooey, Things Fall Apart, Notes from Underground, The Poisonwood Bible, Ghost World, Cat's Cradle, The God of Small Things and all political essays by Arundhati Roy, The Life of Pi, international development lit. and ethnographies of indigenous societies ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I´m thrilled to have seen the largest mud building in the world, riden a Camel into Timbuktu, and danced late into the night at funeral for a man who died of "juju"...and Carnival in Cajamarca, Peru was pretty awesome.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Ecuador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, Mali, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Paraguay, Thailand, Togo, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ghana, Honduras, India, Peru, United States