CURRENT MISSION

I want both to spread excitement and to live intelligently.

ABOUT ME

I am a twenty-year-old from the US. I am half Lithuanian. I hope to grow up to be a salad-eating, book-toting, traveling, bike-riding, tea-drinking, Oxford comma-adding, laughing, traveling, liberal editor/professor/some crazy academic lady, both happy and in love.

PHILOSOPHY

"No bloom of youth can ever blind / The cracks and wrinkles of your mind." - The late, great Jonathon Swift

"We ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." -Thornton Wilder's 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey'

"Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works." -John Cleese

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Well, I am new to this site, so thus I have only surfed a few times, but when I am back in the states I will definitely put up my floor!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been doing my own type of 'couchsurfing' since I was born, as I have been in and out of foster care homes, adopted homes, homes of friends, etc. I have had quite an interesting life, which I think has made me a strong, worthwhile, caring, hard-working individual. Plus, I am a really easy guest: it's what I have been doing all my life!

Interests

I like:
Faulkner
Recycling
Excitement
Whitewater kayaking
TRAVELING
Singing
Home-made, unconventional families
'Life of Brian'
Gin and tonics
Grammar
Debating
Alpine skiing
Playing the flute
Down comforters

I don't like:
Indifference
Slowly-moving people
Close-mindedness
Comma splices
Licorice
Grumpy people
Most of Hemingway's novels
People who sing out-of-tune
Thin walls
Lack of water

• books
• singing
• drinking
• technology
• traveling
• survival
• music
• cycling
• kayaking
• skiing
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Literature:
Faulkner, O'Connor, Swift, Durrell, Nabokov, Dahl, Austen, Forrester, Woolf, Ishiguro, Conrad, Baldwin, Gibran, Ovid, Heaney, Flaubert, Chandler, Chaucer... I like to read.

Music: The Beatles, Ryan Adams, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, Spoon, Wilco, Enter the Haggis, The Streets, The Pogues, Bon Iver, CSN&Y, The Rolling Stones, Beck, The Knife, My Morning Jacket, Weezer, Simon and Garfunkel, The Temptations, Dixie Chicks, Old Crowe Medicine Show, John Prine, Flogging Molly, The Kinks, etc, etc, etc.

Movies: The Fall, A Fish Called Wanda, To Have and Have Not, Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love, Harold and Maude, Annie Hall, Start the Revolution Without me, Benny and Joon, Brick, Life of Brian, Magnolia, The Silence of the Lambs, Concert for Bangladesh, Fight Club, Blue Car, A Hard Day's Night, The Rutles, Reservoir Dogs, The Big Sleep, The Wiz...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1. I changed my own name, legally, at the age of seven.

2. I skied the Austrian Alps.

3. I almost died getting stuck under a whitewater kayak.

4. I saw the Temple of Artemis in Turkey.

5. I've seen all kinds of good deeds. Ask me more.

Teach, Learn, Share

John Lennon's 'Real Love' was recorded as a demo, and, after he died, Yoko, in a surprisingly rational act of love, surrendered the tape to Paul, Ringo, and George, who then provided the rest of the music behind John's voice.
It is a beautiful song.

The best Faulkner novel to start with is: 'As I Lay Dying.' It's both quick and stunning... 'nuff said.

Talk to me: I have a lot of knowledge up my sleeves!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cyprus, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey, United States

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