CURRENT MISSION

Couchsurfing and meeting others through cool adventures

ABOUT ME

I just graduated from the University of Southern California and am currently living in San Antonio, Texas (my hometown). I became acquainted with couchsurfing while studying abroad in Bilbao, Spain in the spring of 2009. I am a laid-back, nice person who enjoys learning new things and laughing at life!

PHILOSOPHY

Personal Philosophies include, among others....
1. The best things in life are not things.
2. The most difficult, and most rewarding thing to do is to live in the present.
3. Live long, love much, and laugh often.

"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. " -John Irving

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." -Gandhi

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships were built for."

-William Shedd

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I currently cannot house anyone, but I would like to meet new people, experience different cultures, and reward people with excellent gifts in return for their kindness.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had my first couch-surfing experience in Valencia, Spain for Las Fallas, and it was wonderful! I also couchsurfed in Galicia and had a fantastic time there as well. Although I am living in Texas in the U.S., I can't wait to meet more people through traveling adventures in the future!

Interests

Reading, learning, art, animals, traveling, cooking, tennis, swimming, skiing, film, music, playing piano, gardening, my family and friends, Photoshop, riding bikes, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, playing with my bunny rabbit! etc.

• animals
• arts
• cooking
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• music
• piano
• backpacking
• mountaineering
• surfing
• skiing
• tennis
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Shawshank Redemption, Memento, Forrest Gump, This is Spinal Tap, Dumb and Dumber, Requiem for a Dream, Apocalypse Now, Adaptation, Rushmore, The Shining, etc. etc. etc.

Music: Debussy to D'Angelo; nearly everything but country.

Books: Revolutionary Road, The Bell Jar, The Giving Tree, The Orchid Thief, Where the Red Fern Grows, Dr. Seuss shit, stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Catch-22, Frankenstein, Harry Potters, Ender's Game, 1984, American Pastoral, Helter Skelter, A Biography of Malcolm X, Me Talk Pretty One Day, American Psycho, The Pearl, The Great Gatsby, The Count of Monte Cristo, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Self-Help by Lorrie Moore, Your Money or Your Life, etc. etc. etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I completed an Outward Bound mountaineering expedition when I was 17 in the Sierra Nevadas of California-- a 100 mile backpacking extravaganza. It was the hardest and most rewarding experience I have had to date.

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