I'm a third year "public corporate tracking" veterinary student from Virginia Tech. I've a passion for animal health, cooking, gardening, singing, and personal development admittedly much of that agenda has been pushed to the back burner in veterinary scool.

In 2010 I was lost. I had graduated from college in Washington, DC in 2007, worked a few jobs, saved money, moved to California, worked a few jobs, saved money, and had spent an entire year traveling the continent mostly taking in national parks with my dog, Ranger. I stayed with a friend in San Jose, CA who encouraged me to go to Burning Man with her, I think it was "Metropolis" that year and I bought my ticket at the gate. About a 5 days into camping in the Black Rock Desert I learned something that I had heard before but that I simply hadn't believed: "you can do anything you put your mind to."

When I left the black rock desert, I picked up my dog from family friends in Reno, NV and traveled home to New Jersey for the first time since 2005 where I went about pursuing my dreams. I always wanted to be a veterinarian but had heard "its harder to get into vet school than it is to get into medical school" and that's true, but I did. Now, 7 years on, I'm getting ready to enter my fourth year of veterinary school, I'm doing well academically and inter-personally and am in a committed loving relationship of 2 and a half years duration.

I'm a very good cook and particularly developed in french, indian, and isralie cusines. I love to garden. I love my two friendly, cuddly chihuahuas, Pip and Ruby (Ranger passed away in 2014).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I will be traveling for 8 externships in my fourth year of Veterinary School, May 2017-May2018. These are 3-week experiences working under veterinarians in a variety of contexts. I'm looking to have a great diversity of experience and to that end am traveling outside of where I have family and friends to host me. I thought couch-surfing would be a good way to meet people in the area's I'll be working.

Interests

• cats
• dogs
• singing
• cooking
• running
• board games
• medicine
• farming
• organic gardening
• veterinary medicine
• hiking,

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Bob Dylan, Cake, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, Kris Kristofferson, Radiohead

Books: I'm very well read but I have a special place on my bookshelf for "Growth of the Soil" by Knut Hamsun, "Travels with Charley" by Steinbeck, and "Labrynths" by Jorge Borges also Woody Gutherie's Auto Biography

Movies: Harolde and Maude, Being There, The Royal Tenumbaums, Easy Rider, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Fall

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I cooked an Indian dinner for 70 people with the help of 3 friends.

Teach, Learn, Share

Simple differences between a black bear and a grizzly bear's skat: black bear skat has berries in it and smells slightly like sulfur, grizzly bear skat often has little bells in it and smells like pepper spray.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, United States

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