CURRENT MISSION

My love for languages is without bounds, so bring me yours and I will bring you mine!

ABOUT ME

Ciao a tutt*! Mi chiamo A.M.: queer early 30s Bay Stater, journalist, sometime poet, linguist, wanna-be polyglot, dancer.

PHILOSOPHY

Any love that is love is right.
Communication--written, signed, heard, spoken, drawn, or inferred--unites all of us.
Somewhere, somehow, someone always loves you.
Just don't be an a$$hole.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've made friends and stayed with several people who are couchsurfers, and officially surfed for the first time in Portland, Oregon in fall 2014.

I've hosted people from Italy, the Netherlands, and California and loved all of them!

Interests

Blues dancing (similar to swing), reading, writing, politics (public education, reproductive justice, civil rights, equality)

• writing
• dancing
• ballet dancing
• civil rights
• recipes
• politics
• reading
• woodworking
• music
• blues
• soccer
• journalism
• languages
• mathematics
• permaculture

Music, Movies, and Books

Films/TV: In Bruges, Patrik Age 1.5, Ratatouille, Despicable Me, somewhat abstract shorts, films by Francesca Archibugi or Liliana Cavani
Lit: Animal Dreams, Merchant of Venice, Phantom Tollbooth, Gentle Ben, Candida, Arms and the Man (okay, anything from Shaw), In the Next Room, Sharon Olds, Margaret Atwood

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

fireflies at night out in western Mass, the church ceiling at Ravenna

Teach, Learn, Share

I can/I would like to...
Teach: Italian, math, linguistics, blues dancing, soccer
Learn: reasons behind faith/religions, salsa, ballet, woodworking/woodcarving, horticulture, languages (specifically Portuguese, German, Arabic, ASL, Greek, Khmer and Gaelic), soccer, how to choose wine
Share: lullabies from around the country/world, recipes, music, soccer games

Countries I’ve Visited

Bermuda, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Poland, Portugal, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Italy, United States