CURRENT MISSION

Expanding our horizons

ABOUT ME

My boyfriend, Jeff, and I wish to explore the world and make new friends. We are both from New York and love it here, but we are eager to travel and learn about different cultures and meet people abroad.

PHILOSOPHY

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
--Voltaire

And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic Harps diversly fram'd,
That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When I was very young, I forgot in the Trophonean cave how to laugh; when I became an adult, when I opened my eyes and saw actuality, then I started to laugh and have never stopped laughing since that time. I saw that the meaning of life was to make a living, its goal to become a councilor, that the rich delight of love was to acquire a well-to-do girl, that the blessedness of friendship was to help each other in financial difficulties, that wisdom was whatever the majority assumed it to be, that enthusiasm was to give a speech, that courage was to risk being fined ten dollars, that cordiality was to say, "May it do you good" after a meal, that piety was to go to communion once a year. This I saw, and I laughed.
--Kierkegaard

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hoping to couch surf to make new friends abroad!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We are new to CS, but hope to have a (great) couch surfing experience soon!

Interests

Opera, classical music, dancing, movies, video games, working out.

• dancing
• working out
• movies
• video games
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• classical music
• opera
• surfing
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Orlando, Mrs Dalloway, The Tristan Chord, Twilight, This Is Your Brain on Music, John Stuart Mill, The Sandman, Snow Country, Kokoro, Naomi, Siddhartha, Utopia, The Prince, Meditations, The Voyage Out, Northanger Abbey, The Crying of Lot 49, To the Lighthouse, Animorphs, The Decameron, The Divine Comedy, Thucydides, Herodotus, The Iliad, Oresteia, The Medea, The Odyssey, California Blue, Whirligig, The Broken Commandment, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, The World Is Flat, The Awakening, The Hot Zone, The Fabric of the Cosmos, A River Out of Eden, Practical Ethics, The Halo Series, King Lear, Song of Solomon, Genome, Green Grass, Running Water, City of Corpses, Frankenstein, The Stranger, Babbitt, Angels in America, Madame Bovary, Candide, Moby Dick, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The Great Gatsby, Pride & Prejudice.

Movies: Mulholland Drive, The Constant Gardener, The Lives of Others, Die Fälscher, District 9, Inglorious Basterds, Ponyo, Twilight, Drag Me to Hell, Star Trek, Doubt, The curious case of Benjamin Button, Gran Torino, Tristan and Isolde, Persepolis, Revolutionary Road, The Darjeeling Limited, Lakeview Terrace, Quarantine, The Devil Wears Prada, Contact, Sunshine, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Lilo & Stitch, Lost in Translation, Psycho, City of God, Doctor Zhivago, Mean Girls, Eastern Promises, Grave of the Fireflies, Tony Takitani, WALL•E, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Babel, Cars, Crash, The Collector, Dial M for Murder, Notes on a Scandal, Rashomon, The Dark Night, Pride & Prejudice, Babette's Feast, Gattaca, All About Eve, The Shining, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Amelie, Amadeus, Raise the Red Lantern, M. Butterfly, Farewell My Concubine, Out of Africa, Donnie Darko, The Hours, 500 Days of Summer.

Music: Owl City, Paper Route, Paramore, Maritime, Goldfrapp, Malajube, Björk, As Tall As Lions, Alanis Morissette, Taylor Swift, The National, Owen, Wagner, Jay-Z, Plus/minus, Death Cab for Cutie, Seabound, Coldplay, 65daysofstatic, Stars, Vampire Weekend, The Veronicas, Hilary Duff, Kanye West, American Football, Hey Mercedes, The Helio Sequence, Sufjan Stevens, Dashboard Confessional, Headlights, The Stills, The Strokes, System of a Down, Mates of State, Black Eyed Peas, Steve Reich, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Gorillaz, Utada Hikaru, Kotoko, Ayumi, Dragonforce, Electric Six, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, The Postal Service, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, Cascada, The Decemberists, Chin Up Chin Up, Chumbawamba, The City on Film, Copeland, Creed, Dave Matthews Band, Five For Fighting, Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Cash, Kylie Minogue, Trisha Yearwood, Aaron Copland, Gershwin, Berlioz, Bizet, Stravinsky, Ravel, Antonín Dvořák, Fauré, Vaughan Williams, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald, The Carpenters, Chinese Pop, Nobuo Uematsu, Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Satie, Saint-Saens, Puccini, Sibelius, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, The Ting Tings, The Mamas & the Papas, Donna Summer, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Leona Lewis, ABBA.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Jeff walked on the Great Wall of China (a small segment of it, at least)!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, China, Costa Rica, France, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United States