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Overview
About Me
ABOUT ME
I love reading,writing,photography,walking around Berkeley when it is frat-free,beer,used book stores,drinking chai,Cafe Milan... Overall, I am pretty much up for anything...except eating meat as I am 100% vegetarian :) Also, Russian literature is one of my greatest loves---Dostoevsky is a genius!
PHILOSOPHY
I'll have to think of someone inspiring and super cheesy to quote here-- Until then, I want to see as much of the world as possible :D and enjoy the less exciting bits in between, maintaining a Blakean world view rather than a Hardy worldview... With a little less crazy perhaps
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I unfortunately can't host this semester, but I'm always up for a cup of coffee or a beer with anyone in the Berkeley area!
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Met some amazing people in Roma, Amsterdam and Paris---they made the trip unforgettable :)
Interests
Literature!!!! Theatre, people, writing, going on varied adventures with friends, talking for hours upon hours in coffee shops and/or bars, concerts + theatre, drinking wine and watching (and making fun of) ridiculously terrible movies :)
- writing
- books
- literature
- photography
- concerts
- wine
- beer
- coffee
- vegetarian
- walking
- drinking
- movies
- reading
Music, Movies, and Books
Literature!!!The Brothers Karamazov, All of Milton's Poetry and some Prose but esp. Paradise Lost,Crime And Punishment, Anna Karenina,Wordsworth's The Prelude, Coleridge's Poetry, Blake's Poetry, Jane Eyre, The Importance Of Being Earnest, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, The Illiad, The Odyssey, Dante's Inferno, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Dubliners,Reading Lolita in Tehran, Virgina Wolfe's works, Thomas Hardy's works, KEATS POETRY!, Harry Potter, Ibsen's works, Greek Mythology, Norse Mythology,The Collected Works of Lord Byron, Emma, 1984, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, A Grief Observed, Till We Have Faces, Etc Etc
Movies: Eternal Sunshine, Paradise Now, Lives of Others, American History X, The Pianist, Fight Club, Cowboy Bebop, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT (greatest show ever), Futurama, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report
Music: RADIOHEAD!!The Black Keys, The White Stripes, The Weepies, Classical music, Cat Power,Andrew Bird, Cara Dillon, Beirut, Decemberists,Celtic music, The Weepies, Arcade Fire
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
The Golden Gate bridge when I was jumping out of a plane :D Vista overlooking Roma at night, Paris from the top of the arc di triomphe, almost falling off a bridge in Venice...
Countries I’ve Visited
France, Italy, Laos, Netherlands, Thailand, Viet Nam
Countries I’ve Lived In
United States