CURRENT MISSION

Being happy, meeting new people and experiencing new things

ABOUT ME

I'm 20 years old and I'm a Gemini [I don't follow horoscopes but for those that do...there you go]. I lift weights, as a living and a pastime. I find that taking candy from a baby makes me feel better about myself. I have an enormous ego around others but really I'm just like a sad little puppy in a pet store who wants to be taken home and loved.

Now for something more serious...I have never been someone to quote a song to explain my mood or who I am. And I think that statement alone tells more about me than the crap most people say about themselves.

I'm a people person, I get along with pretty much anybody. Unless you like punch me in the face or something...then I probably wouldn't like you too much.

PHILOSOPHY

I don't really have any. It's like how I never have New Years resolutions...if I want to change something, I do it. I don't think about it. I don't set myself goals. That's setting yourself up for failure. If I want a difference in my life I do it on my own will power. And if I really want it, I succeed. I guess that is sort of a philosophy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My goal really is to make connections with people. Honestly, I live in a growing college town so unless you are coming to check out the school or on tour with your band, I don't expect to get many people needing a couch. But I'm totally down for putting anyone up!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Noob.

Interests

COOKING/BAKING!!!!
Music, reading, bike riding, adventuring, bloody knuckles, sewing, drawing, video games, hiking, going to a local show, learning, going for a walk on a nice day, animals/animal welfare [i'm not a vegan or an activist and definitely not a vegan activist]. I enjoy having intelligent conversations, football/soccer, hockey, extreme sports, playing hopscotch, doing puzzles, taking pictures, traveling, meeting new people, rafting.

Really I'm generally up for anything fun and new and exciting. I also adore run-on sentences and refuse to further my education in grammar.

• animals
• pets
• aquaria
• animal welfare
• education
• cooking
• baking
• vegan
• running
• video games
• reading
• traveling
• puzzles
• drawing
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• sports
• soccer
• hockey
• extreme sports
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
My Neighbor Totoro, Rock n Rolla, Dracula (1931), Cry Baby, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clerks, Benny & Joon, Boondock Saints, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Pans Labyrinth, Dawn of the Dead, Road Warrior, Grease, Army of Darkness, Pirates of the Caribbean, SLC Punk, Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein (1931)

Music:
I listen to a little of everything. Almost everything.
EX:
Reverend Horton Heat, The Hives, Bikini Kill, Gogol Bordello, The Specials, The Cramps, Kiss, Motley Crue, Agent Orange, The Who, Television, Ramones, The Clash, Fat Boy Slim, Run-DMC, Sugar Hill Gang, Beastie Boys, Beck, G. Love & Special Sauce, The Vandals, Wolfmother, Chumbawumba, Daft Punk, Presidents of the United States of America, Kyuss, Shellac, Tummler, Pixies, Rammstein, Dropkick Murphys, Jesus Lizard, Heartbreakers, Gogol Bordello, The Runaways, Mudhoney, Descendants, Stray Cats, Naked Raygun, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Modern Lovers, Ventures, Turtles, Violent Femmes, Elvis Costello, Dexys Midnight Runners, The Animals, Boomtown Rats...

and the best for last...

Books:
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Book of Lost Things, Dance of Days, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Jungle, Water For Elephants, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, A Confederacy of Dunces, I Am America and So Can You, No One Here Gets Out Alive, Go Ask Alice, Paint It Black, Peter Pan, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Michelangelo & The Reinvention of the Human Body, A History of Christianity, Thunderstruck, The Northmen Talk, Villains of All Nations, Bound For Glory, Pride & Prejudice, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Time Machine, Sherlock Holmes, Utopia, The Republic, Anarchist Cookbook, Our Band Could Be Your Life, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, The Grapes of Wrath, The Communist Manifesto, Catch 22, Driving With Dead People, When She Was Bad, The Wild Things, God Is Dead, Treasure Island, The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, The Gates, You Shall Know Our Velocity.

I will read anything.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveled alone to a country where I didn't know the language.

Experienced true love.

Worked at the Shedd Aquarium.

Volunteered at a Bear Sanctuary.

Teach, Learn, Share

I think I have a lot to share and a lot to learn. We'll see how it goes.

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

Romania, United States