ABOUT ME

I'm a Canadian student who loves to balance the West Coast lifestyle - laid-back, tea-drinking, yoga-loving - with the pragmatic and straight-shooting approach that I've learned growing up on the Canadian prairies. I love meeting people and sharing stories, but I'm also quite independent and can be a bit hard quiet at first...

Last year, I was on exchange for a semester in Lyon, France, and used this as my springboard into other parts of Europe for weekend trips. Currently, I'm in my last semester of university, after which I'm hoping to do a few months of travelling in SE Asia.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've CouchSurfed a few times in different cities, both with friends and on my own. Each time was wonderful, as it allowed us to meet new people and see a side of the city that locals knew rather than just be tourists. The experiences I've had staying at a mountainside home in Grenoble, a schoolhouse loft in the Loire Valley, with an insider at the Strasbourg Christmas markets, and in a downtown Ottawa apartment have all added so much to my travel history.

Interests

Writing, jewellery design, karate, piano, flute, journalism/broadcasting, cooking (although this interest does not equal experience...), art

• arts
• writing
• design
• cooking
• yoga
• drinking
• traveling
• socializing
• piano
• hunting
• swimming
• history
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Casablanca, Walk the Line, Lord of the Rings, Elizabethtown, Rachel Getting Married, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Love Actually
Music: The National, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Against Me, The Band, Billie Holiday, Metric, Johnny Cash, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, anything Beethoven or Bach
Books: Paul Quarrington, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dambisa Moyo, Hunter S. Thompson

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swimming in the Mediterranean near Cap d'Ail, Nice
Fado in Lisbon
Sunset over the Vancouver skyline

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France