CURRENT MISSION

Traveling

ABOUT ME

Sven and I met in NZ in 2011. I am a student at NYU and he is going to pursue work in Germany once he has finished his exciting travels around my home country. We were in Western Germany earlier this summer, visiting his home city. We hope to spend a week or two in NYC this summer!

PHILOSOPHY

"I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something."
-Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

surfing, hosting, coffee-ing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I just got started on CS but hoping to meet lots of cool people and hopefully surf (and host when I'm back in the States)!

Interests

traveling, live music, interesting people, literature, film, running, outdoors, writing, relief work/ third world development, coffee, good conversation

• writing
• books
• literature
• coffee
• running
• traveling
• music
• live music
• outdoor activities
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music- The Avett Brothers, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Damien Rice, The Tallest Man on Earth, Ray LaMontagne, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Iron & Wine, Phoenix, Fleet Foxes, Andrew Bird, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bombay Bicycle Club, etc

Books (authors)- Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, Hemingway, Michael Chabon

Films- Annie Hall, Manhattan, An Education, Once, The Pianist, 500 Days of Summer, Amelie, Harold and Maude

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've done relief work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and helped to build a house for an incredible family in rural Nicaragua.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a lot about books and a little about livin', would be happy to pass on any "wisdom" that I may have :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Barbados, Canada, China, France, Germany, Haiti, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand, United States