CURRENT MISSION

To smile and to make others smile :-)

ABOUT ME

I am an open minded human with a travel addiction and a love for exploring the world.  I enjoy meeting new people and experiencing new things.  I have lived various places, including Ecuador, Guatemala, Philadelphia, San Antonio, TX, and most recently Portland, OR where I fell in love with the PNW. I’m now excited to call Seattle my home!

PHILOSOPHY

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

To connect with others who share my passion for exploring the world.

Interests

Speaking Spanish, audiobooks, dorky board games, yoga, scuba diving, social justice, travel, hiking, playing outside, and meeting open minded, diverse people.

• performing arts
• dancing
• womens rights
• yoga
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• surfing
• scuba diving
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Story of Stuff, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Sex at Dawn, Woman An Intimate Geography, Collapse, The Red Tent, A People's History of the United States, Written on the Body, The Omnivore's Dilemma. My favorite Spanish authors/poets include Pablo Neruda, Isabel Allende, Ruben Dario and Federico Garcia Lorca

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I helped a Guatemalan midwife deliver a baby, saw a whale shark while learning to scuba dive in Honduras, helped vaccinate children in the Ecuadorian Amazon, watched the famous Central American quetzal perform a mating dance in the Costa Rican cloud, and gracefully fell down the castle stairs in Prague.

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Austria, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Botswana, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Virgin Islands, British, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador, Guatemala, United States

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