CURRENT MISSION

to keep some sort of journal

ABOUT ME

I'm currently living in Hyde Park in Chicago and participating in the Urban Studies Program through the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. I plan on living in Chicago until starting my senior year at Beloit College in August.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Attending meetings, meeting new people for coffee or to show them around, "babysitting" the couchsurfers of busy friends, surfing couches primarily in Berlin and LA

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A friend and I couchsurfed with 3 different hosts in Los Angeles over spring break, '09, and I hosted one person for one night in Beloit

Interests

reading, laughing, people, listening to and telling stories, in-depth discussions, coffee, traveling.

• coffee
• reading
• traveling
• volunteer work
• surfing
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

I absolutely love reading, especially books that make me think, and the same goes for movies. and i could never imagine a life without music.
some favorite books: A Thousand Splendid Suns, The God of Small Things, The Kite Runner, Animal Dreams, Memiors of a Geisha, Poisonwood Bible, An Unquiet Mind. favorite movies: Once, The Hours, Memento, The Life of David Gale, Atonement, Love Actually, The Prestige.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went with a bunch of teenagers to a small town in Romania where we did volunteer work for two weeks, and on one day we all worked in the woods. I remember taking a break at one point from my task of stripping branches for kindling and looking across the section of forest we were working in and I saw everybody - the American youth and the Hungarian youth - all working side by side to sort out firewood for people in the town who couldnt get it for themselves. We'd only been in Keresztur for 4 days but we all already felt right at home.

Teach, Learn, Share

I really want to gain a broader perspective of the world. I grew up in a small town which is commonly known as the "Concord Bubble" - basically you don't know what happens outside of it until you get outside of it. So I got out.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

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