CURRENT MISSION

Holistic Nutrition, Waldorf Education

ABOUT ME

I am a Waldorf teacher living in Chico, California. I am a student with the Nutrition Therapy Institute, studying holistic nutrition. I am a kind, compassionate person. I love to travel and see new places and meet new people. I generally like to be neat and organized. I am creative and I love to draw and paint. I love to read and write, and I love to learn new languages, new things about the world. I am passionate about education, working with children, nutrition, nature...

PHILOSOPHY

I value kindness and compassion, creative community, living simply.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have slept on many friends' couches and always feel grateful for a place to stay with people I love. Using the couchsurfing website is new for me, but I look forward to this opportunity to meet people that I otherwise would not have encountered.

兴趣

I love to work with children - I have worked as a preschool teacher and have done Waldorf and Montessori teacher training, and someday I would like to open my own preschool. I love to spend time in nature, and I love to garden and grow food. I value community, creativity, friendship. I like to draw and paint, cook, knit, hike, run, do yoga, meditate...

• animals
• education
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• dieting
• running
• meditation
• gardening
• traveling
• socializing
• knitting
• painting
• drawing
• hiking
• wrestling
• teaching
• languages

音乐、电影和书籍

Books: Tattoos on the Heart; The Poisonwood Bible; Nourishing Traditions, Autobiography of a Yogi; Born to Run; Even Cowgirls Get the Blues; The Elephant Whisperer; Life, Love, and Elephants.........

Movies: Princess Mononoke; LA Story, Lost in Translation; Baraka

Music: Appalachian music / old time banjo music; Inti Iluminai; Joni Mitchel; Bob Dylan; Animal Collective; Beirut; the Beatles; Lauryn Hill......

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I lived in Shanghai, China for a year, teaching toddlers at the British International School. Living in China was an eye-opening experience, to a whole other way of living, speaking, thinking, moving, eating, etc. I am grateful for my time there because eventually I found a way to flow, to surrender my ideas about how the world is and harmonize as much as I could with the Chinese way of life.

A few years later I traveled to Southern India, to the town of Tiruvanamalai in Tamil Nadu. I spent a month there on a meditation retreat. I rented a bicycle and road around the town and the outlying farms and jungle. I loved to watch the families of monkeys together, the little ones always playing and wrestling. I loved seeing the rich, dense green of the jungle, and I especially loved watching the pink peach sunset over the green fields of rice. While I was there, I made friends with a young Australian traveler turned monk, who had found a stray, raggedy puppy in an alley. We caught it and the two of us rode his bicycle to the local animal shelter and handed it over to the vet there. I discovered they had a few litters of puppies there, and from then on, I spent many an afternoon visiting the puppies and giving them love.

教，学，和分享

I am very passionate about nutrition and love to talk about health, diet, food, cooking, etc. I especially love to make fermented foods (sauerkraut, cultured veggies, kefir, etc), and I am very happy to explain, show, teach how to make cultured foods!

I also love to knit, and would be happy to teach anyone who would like to learn.

我游览过的国家

Argentina, Guatemala, India, Mexico, Nicaragua

我居住过的国家

China, United States