CURRENT MISSION

It's impossible to experience everything the world has to offer, but it's a shame not to try.

ABOUT ME

My mom took a trip to Paris when I was a very young girl, and I was devastated that I couldn't accompany her. For my eighth birthday, I asked for a set of French instruction cassette tapes, and my extreme case of wanderlust was born. I visited Europe for the first time when I was 17, and I loved every minute. Unfortunately, financial limitations and the stress of every day has beaten me down a bit, and I have only returned to France one other time in the past ten years. I love to read, and I consider myself a very open-minded, spontaneous person. I have a very passionate view of life; I love to savor all the flavors of the world. Living in Chicago, one of the greatest food cities in America, I get to explore my interest in the culinary world, and I have discovered some great things. I've come to a point in my life where I'm hungry for more, and I'd like to make traveling a way of life.

PHILOSOPHY

I feel that life is a great adventure. I will not let the choices other people make dictate the way I live my life. People are all so vastly different, and it is of great importance to celebrate those differences. Kindness goes a long way in this life, and that is a principle by which I live. Something I feel lately is that there is something just under the surface of everything, and I want to try and get closer to it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Like many things, the only experience I have with Couchsurfing is what I've read about it in my detailed research. I can't wait to make some memories of my own!

Interests

I love food and wine. I love film and stories of any kind. I love being silly and spending time with my friends. I also love spending time alone and being me.

• dining
• wine
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

The Corrections, The Art of Travel, Confederacy of Dunces, Matilda, Middlesex, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Disgrace, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Hero of Our Time, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Miss Lonelyhearts, Against the Grain

Pee-Wee Herman's Playhouse, Palindromes, Spirited Away, Ponyo, Howl's Moving Castle, Triplets of Belleville, Manhattan, Before Sunset, Pecker, Adaptation, Lost in Translation, The Jerk, Muriel's Wedding, The Squid and the Whale, The Illusionist, The Wrestler, Waking Life.

Belle and Sebastian, Magnetic Fields, Beirut, Feist, Cat power, The Cure, Grizzly Bear, Neil Young, Lou Reed, Beth Gibbons, The Clash, David Bowie, MGMT, Billie Holiday, She and Him, Neko Case, Pixies, Radiohead, The Replacements, Rilo Kiley, Sam Cooke, Al Green, Otis Redding, Smog, TV on the Radio.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Nothing specific comes to mind, but I love that this question made me decide to keep a small journal to record these events in the future.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Mexico, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States