CURRENT MISSION

Back in Brazil! Ready to experience more with an open heart.

ABOUT ME

I love to dance and sing. I work with my hands alot as well. Right now I'm apprenticing with an Eco Design company, gaining access to a ceramic studio. Clay is my main medium, but when I'm out of the studio a simple ball point pen can transform a seat on the subway to a private oasis of creativity. Take me to the mountains, the beach, or both. That's one reason why I love Brasil. The coast is so lush and visually stimulating.

I think that nutrition is important and transforms our perception and daily experience. I love to cook and bake. I try to be as healthy as possible but I also have my guilty pleasures (see brigadiero)

I'm trying to learn as much as possible, create, and share.

PHILOSOPHY

Free to be you and me.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am willing to be a guide for those new to my city. A friend for the traveler. I want to go to a new place and get the native perspective, not the tourist perspective

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couch surfed around Brazil for 6 months in 2012 but we used my friends account. Now I'm back and updating my references.

Interests

Farms, clay, ceramic art, composition, poetry, north east brazil, indigenous cultures, permaculture, tiny houses, dogs, cats, goats, home steading,

• cats
• dogs
• arts
• poetry
• singing
• design
• dancing
• cooking
• music
• hiking
• tourism
• beaches
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books - Anything Tom Robbins

Movies - The Fall,

Music - My Morning Jacket, Neil Young, Michael Kiwanuka, Renata Rosa, M. Ward, Nina Simone, Neutral Milk Hotel, Anything on the Daptone Label

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I did a 60 mile hike in 5 days going below sea level to an elevation of 14,000 feet and then below sea level again. At the top of the Salkantay pass I felt strongly connected to my body and my earth.

Teach, Learn, Share

Cook, bake, natural remedies, music, English, Portuguese

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Colombia, Czech Republic, Peru

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States