CURRENT MISSION

To raise my babies well and keep discovering new places!

ABOUT ME

My livelihoods constantly change. I love new ideas, and thrive on variety. I love the public library. I am fascinated by the actuality of carnivorous plants and the idea of spontaneous combustion. I have a large cassette tape and (brace yo'self!) stamp collection. I am constantly trying to be a better person and to save the world...from alien invasion. I first went abroad to Ecuador, where I worked on an organic farm, then traveled around Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. I then went to Central America for a few months. In 2005 I taught English in Thailand, left the boyfriend in Bangkok, volunteered with abandoned Burmese children and farming/natural building projects, went to India to travel and visit sustainable communities, came back, visited similar communities in the US, lived in Austin off and on for 4 years, having various jobs. I came to Fort Worth after living in Mexico and have been here for 8 years now. I have a toddler and one on the way

PHILOSOPHY

Treat others as you want to be treated, don't say things about people behind their backs that you wouldn't say to their face, don't be afraid of new things because life is all about change,...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I mostly host, but still surf a bit when I travel.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In surfed in Mexico a couple times, and hosted a couple times in Austin, some in Mexico, and quite a bit in Fort Worth. Also went to CS meet-ups in Austin and some in FW.

Interests

traveling, learning about other cultures, languages, sustainable living and communities, gardening, Farmers markets, yoga, Indain cooking, Mexican cooking, zines, baking, singing, , knitting, DIY, making stuff, tea, herbs/natural medicine, wine, good beer, camping, social work/human rights, anything free, dark chocolate, picnics, cats, kids, sewing, thrift stores, garage sales, pen-palling, self-education, having alone time

• cats
• arts
• writing
• books
• singing
• diy
• dancing
• education
• human rights
• cooking
• chocolate
• wine
• beer
• baking
• yoga
• meditation
• clubbing
• gardening
• thrifting
• politics
• traveling
• dumpster diving
• garage sales
• knitting
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• scuba diving
• swimming
• astronomy
• teaching
• languages
• medicine
• physics
• social work

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES
Outfoxed, Manufacturing Consent, random foreign films I rent from the library, Weird Science, The Goonies, Amelie, Lord of the Rings, Frida, The Jerk, Billy Madison, European Vacation, anything with Will Farrell, Tree of Palme, Pom Poko, Garden State, Napolean Dynamite, Harold and Maude, Stranger Than Fiction, A Beautiful Mind, Momento, Donnie Darko, Butterfly Effect,...
MUSIC
Depeche Mode, Erasure, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Madonna, Elliot Smith, Belle and Sebastian, Sinead O'Conner, The Beatles, Cat Stevens, Roxette, Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco, B-52's, Loreena McKennit, spanish guitar music, Norah Jones, David Bowie, Elton John, Counting Crows, Radiohead, The Smiths, Iron and Wine, Nick Drake, Okkervil River, Cienfuegos, The Postal Service, Michael Jackson, Tom Waits, Mazzy Star
BOOKS
Stranger in A Strange Land, The Red Tent, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Clan of the Cave Bear, Jane Eyre, My Ishmael, Peter Freuchen's Famous Book of the Eskimos, On the Road, A Confederacy of Dunces, Revolution From Within-Gloria Steinem, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy series, A People's History of the United States-Howard Zinn, Monkey Wrench Gang, A Walk in the Woods, A Natural History of the Senses, Like Water for Chocolate, The Dispossesed, The Teenage Liberation Handbook...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

getting lost while traveling in Latin America, hiking to Machu Pichu, visiting sustainable communities & working in farms in Thailand, India, and U.S., swimming in "cenotes" in Mexico (underground pools of water)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you beginning Spanish, how to knit, sew, cook, how to garden, cook

We can discuss books and perhaps politics.

I would like to practice my Spanish, and learn all kinds of cooking

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, Thailand, United States

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