CURRENT MISSION

Learn Spanish while living and laughing my way through Nicaragua.

ABOUT ME

I am originally from the United States but I don't tend to stay in one place for too long and have spent the past eight years in Scotland, England, Canada and Ireland (though I will still talk your ear off about American politics if given the chance).

I am about to set off to Nicaragua in an attempt to learn Spanish and get to know a new part of the world!

PHILOSOPHY

"One person's picture postcard is someone else's normal" (which is not really a philospophy but is something that I read recently and thought sounded nice)

I believe in equality above all else.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am new to this CouchSurfing stuff but I love the idea and hope to take part in many future surfing/hosting experiences!

Interests

Learning Spanish, yoga, cooking, laughing fits, photography, politics, lentils, living in different places, sports, competitive boardgames, reading, sweet potatoes, nicknames, mindfulness, healthy eating/living washed down with a glass of wine or two.

• photography
• cooking
• wine
• yoga
• politics
• reading
• surfing
• sports

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Lives of Others, Volver, Lost in Translation, the Departed, Casablanca, American Beauty, Groundhog Day

Music: Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Aimee Mann, Camera Obscura, Wilco, Belle&Sebastian, Billy Bragg, classical, the Magnetic Fields

Books: The Human Stain, The Poisonwood Bible, Brideshead Revisted, Atonement, Never Let me Go, The Book Theif, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, For Whom the Bell Tolls, all F.Scott Fitzgerald, all David Sedaris, Moosewood cookbooks

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States