CURRENT MISSION

To learn, laugh, live, and play

ABOUT ME

I am currently a speech therapist who is trying to continue to juggle and study the performing arts in my spare time. I like to experience new adventures and love living in an area that is summer all year long.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe in the general goodness of humanity and believe people need to work more on trusting one another. I feel I have been open to new experiences all my life (maybe often being at risk), but I feel my life is that much richer because of this. I also believe we should constantly strive to better ourselves and one another, if anything through searching for and experiencing things outside of what we are use to.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted a few people; however I have unfortunately not participated as much as i would like. I respond to every email and occasionally look for people in the area to hang out with who look interesting. I guess just being available and present is hos i have been support for this community. Eventually i will let my gypsy spirit free and I will continue by travels around the world one couch at a time. In a nut shell, I love this project and their ideals.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I never have had a planned "Couch Surfing” experience per say; however once when I was in Germany on a college exchange trip I ditched my group and traveled to Munich. I wanted to do some street performing and was curious how much I would make. While I was there I met this really cool lady from Spain whose profession was to be a statue. She wore a silver dress and was painted silver all over. I remember seeing her multiple times throughout the week and of course she never uttered a word, since she stood still as a statue and would only move once paid.

Well needless to say I made dong in a very unbearable summer sun and was going to leave early. Than I saw her take her makeup off. It was a surreal event. Here is this random person I saw multiple times through out the week on the street “shedding her skin” so to say. I wasn’t sure if she wanted to talk, but I approached her regardless with a big toothy smile. Once she saw my unicycle her interested was peaked and she wouldn’t shut up. Needless to say I spontaneously stayed up all night with this gal in Munich Germany, borrowed her bike and biked around town with her.

The only thing my professor said to me the next day (which was at 7:00 in the morning while I was unicycling to the dorm rooms 30 minutes before we needed to be at the train station) was, “did you spend the night in the train station?”. Yeah that was an eventful summer.

Interests

I love to juggle, ride the unicycle, meet different people, foreign languages, theater, art, board games, and have been learning a lot about Terot and other animistic "new age" thoughts etc..

• arts
• theater
• performing arts
• board games
• juggling
• painting
• cycling
• basketball
• teaching
• languages

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In college I was lucky enough to be the chair of a student governmental committee whose job was to promote cultural awareness activates. While chair I found a group of ten Tibetan monks who traveled around the country creating an intricate gorgeous sand painting called a sand Mandela. The different designs within this Mandela corresponded to various scriptures and prayers that the monks believed in. At the end of the event they symbolically dismantled the sand Mandela and deposited part of it in a body of water.

I still can remember leading the procession from the museum, with the lead monk, and hearing the sounds from the Tibetan horns bounce through out the campus, and watching the sacred sand and milk mix dissipate and vanish in the small river that wound through campus. It was such a life changing experience. It was amazing playing basketball, and having lunch and dinner with ten monks from Tibet. This is only one of many amazing experiences I have been able to partake in.

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