CURRENT MISSION

find a mission that fits my values

ABOUT ME

Hi, everyone!

I'm grew up near Los Angeles, very close to the San Gabriel Mission and a couple miles south of Caltech.

Right now I'm a college student in Colorado Springs, at Colorado College.

PHILOSOPHY

I love meeting people: personal connections are a good deal of the reason why I like to travel.

I'm trying to escape the materialism and shallowness of my native culture (American, particularly Hollywood). Not that there isn't wonderful stuff in American culture, but there's a lot of crappy values (violence, disrespect, irresponsibility, wealth).

I'm trying to build my own inner peace and peace with the world. I want to change the worldview I grew up with, i.e. that some people are "worth" more than others, that it's all a competition.

Hopefully couchsurfing will help convince me.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have only couchsurfed once, but it was a great experience and I intend to do it more. I just moved out of the college dorms and I'm going to ask my roommates if they're interested in hosting with me :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've only done it once, but it worked out very well. I stayed at someone's home with three other girls.

Interests

Peace & conflict, nonviolence, conflict resolution

Literature

Travel and culture (who doesn't like this?)

Middle East & Islam

• culture
• literature
• traveling
• socializing
• muslim

Music, Movies, and Books

I like folk music and world fusion. I also listen to some American pop, to relax and at dances. Dance music is also a favorite, because I like being inspired to dance!

Some favorite books: Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler; Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49; Guillaume Apollinaire, L'Alcool.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of my personal biggest accomplishments, recently, was finally buying my plane ticket to the Middle East!! It was really hard and I was scared but now I'm so excited. I'm traveling there for two months, starting in late October. I don't know a lot of Arabic, and I'm a female alone, so maybe it's amazing or maybe it's stupid. What do you think?

Teach, Learn, Share

Programming - Java, Python

Some French language

I've taken a lot of random classes at college, including Sufism, Literary Theory, Literature of the North American Borderlands, French Literature, Global Inequality, and Urban Arab Literature.

Countries I’ve Visited

Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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