CURRENT MISSION

to meet as many travelers, artists, intellectuals, and adventurers as possible

ABOUT ME

I just ended my four year college career in the great state of Iowa. A little lost, confused, and not yet ready to accept a job I didn't love or move back in with my parents (eek), I decided to move to Japan for 9 months and teach English to little Japanese nuggets (a weird word I use for kids). So here I am.

PHILOSOPHY

Live the Life you Love, Love the Life you Live

Get busy living or get busy dying

Maybe happiness isn't on the road to anything. Maybe happiness is the road.

I don't believe in the Democratic Party or the Republican Party...just parties

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I don't have a couch but I would love to meet fellow travelers for coffee or drinks!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have participated in CS through social events and meetings but I have yet to host or been hosted.

Interests

music, movies, shamefully bad reality shows, Coca-Cola, Airheads (the candy not the people), beer, traveling, nachos, flip-flop tan lines, juke boxes, people with contagious laughs, dogs who stick their heads out of moving cars, boxed wine, front porches, bonfires, warm socks just out of the dryer, getting mail, great friends

• dogs
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• partying
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• cars
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

My Ipod is my soulmate. I have everything from Led Zeppelin to Van Morrison to Seether to Garth Brooks (I'm only slightly ashamed to admit I love country music).

Books:
The Heroin Diaries
Sarah's Key
The Lovely Bones
Naked
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Eat Pray Love

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Fort Charles, Kinsale, Ireland. Google it...better yet go there.

Ice Bar London.

Mt. Fuji summit at sunrise.

I rode an ostrich in China...it was terrifying.

Teach, Learn, Share

Life has a way of working itself out no matter how much you worry.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Germany, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Japan, United States