CURRENT MISSION

Answer the world's call and see it!!

ABOUT ME

I'm a Baha'i, and I strive everyday to live a healthy, loving, genuine life :0) I love sharing the Faith and celebrating the beauty of life through yoga/playing around doing headstands and poses, cooking and enjoying meals with everyone, hiking, anything in the water, traveling, learning other languages, and learning something from everyone I meet!

After living on Maui for around 2.5 years, I packed up to see family and friends for the holidays/new year back in Chicago, and moved to Australia on a 12 month work/holiday visa. I started in Sydney for about a week visiting an amazing friend and moved to Perth with just my bags, a room booked at a hostel and a whole lot of hope and excitement! As I put in this section November 2013 "I can't wait to find what's waiting for me to discover out there :0)"

Although alone and without a plan at first, I rode the emotional roller coaster of moving somewhere just because my dreams led me there and slowly fell madly in love with Western Australia. I roadtripped from Perth to Albany and Esperance, then Margaret River. I completed a 5000+kilometer roadtrip from Perth to Darwin over 3 weeks with two of my best friends before coming home. I'm back in Chicago in order to be near to my family. I can't wait to get back into the Chitown groove after being gone for the last 5 years (moved to Colorado and Hawaii before Australia). I plan to make the next year that I'm living in Chicago one full of adventure, joy, and amazing new experiences!

Check out my Instagram :0) cupcake_travelowski

PHILOSOPHY

I am a world citizen....might as well see my home country (which is the whole earth!)

"To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood." --Abdu'l-Baha

"If your body is a temple, why not decorate the walls?" :0) Never thought I'd ever get a tattoo....now I have 4. Proud of my ink, especially the tattoos I got this year in memory of my sister Julia's life <3

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I spread the word of CS to as many people as I can!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing is a way of life, and I don't want to imagine the experiences and friends I'd miss out on without it.

visited 10 states (4.44%)Create your own visited map of The World or Like this? try: Triposo Travelhacks

Interests

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop" --Jack Kerouac

• books
• beauty
• tattoos
• cooking
• yoga
• running
• modeling
• traveling
• hiking
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Skin I'm In (I want to watch this with everyone and their reactions!!), I heart huckabees*, Amalie, Como Agua para Chocolate, Team America: World Police, Rent, Bad Boys 2, Australia, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Finding Nemo, THE ROOM!!!, Anything by Guillermo del Toro, Coyote Ugly, Anchorman, Elf

Music: I like everything, but haven't found any Death Metal that I enjoy...I like trashy pop/rap (whatever is on KISS FM), Blues and Jazz, Going to Dueling Piano bars in Chicago, some Dubstep, Indie, Bluegrassy country, World Music--I LOVE hearing other languages :0)

Books: On the Road, Dharma Bums,The little prince, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Complete Unabridged E.A.Poe, Good Omens, Anything by Dave Barry, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, The Making of a Chef, Cat's Cradle, *The Zahir* (basically anything by Paulo Coelho), Fragile Things

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One thing used to be: *I'm a Polar Bear!! I started 2010 by jumping in ice-chunk filled Lake Michigan at the Polar Bear Plunge on Jan 1* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqlMYEEPmKo

Now it's: I helped edit and "model" for a canyoneering manual fall/winter 2012, and it's finally in print! I even made it on the cover :0) I got to hike up/through and rappel down some of the most beautiful and isolated areas of Maui. The way I got the gig and nickname Anna "Tarzanna" Helenowski in Acknowledgements is a neat little story in itself ! Check out the book! http://tinyurl.com/nxonntq

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach bits of Spanish, German, Polish, Portugese, and Hawaiian Pidgin. I like to teach people how to do headstands and then challenge them to see who can hold one longest! :0)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Fiji, Ireland, Montenegro, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Spain, United States

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