CURRENT MISSION

Mission 1: Have some fun people over at my house. Mission 2: track down some places to stay during my summer/fall adventures.

ABOUT ME

I'm on my way to completing my degree, going to teacher's college, and getting a job teaching junior intensive in the alternative education program, but I've been struck by a major case of wanderlust. When I graduate, I am peacing out of here and trying to see and live in as many places as I can.

PHILOSOPHY

I'm not really sure why I'm here or why I do what I do. But I do know that whatever I do, I'm going to try to make life as good as possible for as many other people as I possibly can. And also to live sustainably, not rack up too much carbon footprint damage, etc. Because the environment is...well, OUR environment. We live and breathe this stuff, so we need to be nice to it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My couch awaits with (metaphorically) open arms! I love meeting new people; I love the kind of quick, instant friendships formed during travelling; I love showing people around my city. And, of course, I'm going to love visiting other people when I'm done next year and start making my way around the globe!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had my first real CouchSurfer last year...she was fantastic, and it was really a positive experience.

Interests

Beethoven, wasting time on the Internet, chocolate chips, Chopin, classical music, English tea, firearms, historical tragedies, making friends with teachers, mangoes, politics, portable space heaters, red plums, perfecting the art of sarcasm, Shakespeare, skirts, staying up late, synesthesia, the catacombs, the Irish, doing NaNoWriMo, creating melodrama online, and thunderstorms.

• arts
• education
• environment
• chocolate
• politics
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• track and field
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: asia, yes, iron butterfly, the bangles, blue oyster cult, blood sweat and tears, modern english, wilson phillips, eurythmics, boston, kansas, toto, stefy, metric, panic! at the disco, beethoven, black, fall out boy, chopin, p!nk, kelly clarkson, chicago, the stills, feist, wolf parade, twisted sister, ELP, the new pornographers, sarah mclachlan, motion city soundtrack, stars, kt tunstall, mobile, susan enan, hall and oates, holst, carole king, mendelssohn, chantal kreviazuk, the hues corporation, gary puckett and the union gap, the mamas and the papas, jann arden, the carpenters, madonna, the raconteurs, heart, depeche mode, wet wet wet, ABBA, regina spektor, Wicked soundtrack, Phantom soundtrack, the fray, dj tiesto, benassi, franz ferdinand, rihanna, phobos remixes, scissor sisters, couperin, RENT, delibes, the corrs, coldplay, the cardigans, no doubt, gwen stefani, benassi remixes, schumann.

Movies: legally blonde, princess diaries, the stupids, scarface, any movie featuring catherine zeta-jones and/or where they steal stuff, mirrormask, the wind that shakes the barley, chicago, cabaret, ten things i hate about you, shut up and sing, the Zapruder film.

Books: good omens, king of shadows, maura's angel, making sense of criminology, keeping you a secret, terrible beauty, awake and dreaming, american gods, the manchurian candidate, holocaust!, a history of the grand-guignol, fingersmith, stars, and the devil's picnic.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Yesterday, I was at Point Pelee. I stood at the Point where the tip narrows to about 1 metre wide, and enjoyed being the southernmost person on contiguous Canadian soil for about ten minutes.

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada

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