CURRENT MISSION

moving to philadelphia

ABOUT ME

i am very small. i'm a louisiana girl. i love louisiana and i will keep it with me always. the food, the culture, the people.. that said, i'm starting fresh in philly this summer. i'm studying landscape architecture at penn. i'm super excited!

PHILOSOPHY

hrm. this is deep. and i'm sleepy. i believe in karma. and that there is some underlying meaning to all things...it's why flowers and fruit are all so geometrically perfect...why humans are symmetrical...why silence is comforting...why my boss' turkish coffee tastes just a little better than mine...why macaroons taste so good...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

well, let's see...i love meeting new people. i love travel, and i want to make it easy for people to see louisiana...or philadelphia or wherever i may happen to live. i suppose it's nice to stay in hostels...but there aren't many hostels in la, so that's how i got involved.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

charlie might be my favorite...he's visited three or four times--lost count. hrm, i suppose we should put up a picture of him. he's musical and he always has these great stories about his travels...and some things that he does/knows are just uncanny. he chooses the things that others don't even see. he rides this crazy motorcycle and he does amazing graphic design work. he has so much to teach, but he never stops learning.

Interests

well, if you can teach me, i'll probably want to hear it. but architecture, art, life, food, food, sewing, coffee, food, and food.

• arts
• culture
• architecture
• design
• graphic design
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• flowers
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

okay. movies. survive style 5+. 2046. everything is illuminated. amelie. the shining. sleepless in seattle. when harry met sally. lost in translation. pride and prejudice. music. modest mouse. joanna newsome. ted leo. julie odell. miles davis. louis armstrong. billie holiday. emilie simon. mickey 3d. good ol' frank. the postmarks. tel aviv. thievery corporation. the shins. the decemberists. andrew bird. books. right now i'm reading where we know New Orleans. also, the god of small things, and "do you know what it means to miss new orleans?" a compilation by the many artists and writers that miss their city. ayn rand, the fountainhead and atlas shrugged.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

well. one summer abroad in romania, i watched sunflowers grow. for two months i saw them sprout and grow and grow until one day, they had grown taller than me. the day i was leaving the country, i walked through them, and they were all so proudly standing, so vivid. i have no photographs but the image of those sunflowers is burned in my mind.

Teach, Learn, Share

i will cook you gumbo.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Romania, United States

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