CURRENT MISSION

"The future has yet to be made. Let us make it as beautifully as we can"

ABOUT ME

My name is Cailin. I love words- writing them and reading them (I'm a writing major in college at the moment). I just got back from a 3 month trip to Europe. I love sunflowers, zoos, serendipity, public transport, and food of all kinds.

PHILOSOPHY

"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever." - Kurt Vonnegut

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd be happy to go out for a cup of coffee in my neighborhood and the occasional guest

Interests

• writing
• dining
• coffee
• reading
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
anything by Kurt Vannegut
Shop Girl by Steve Martin
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway
1984 by George Orwell
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
EE Cummings

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spent time living with a wonderful host family in Costa Rica and attending a Spanish university when I was 16

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Singapore, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, United States