I'm currently teaching in Orvieto, Italy. Italy has changed my life for better since I first came as a young singer. It taught me how to open up, be present, and embrace my hyper-affectionate nature. It's a place where people love music and food, and I love music and food, cooking for friends, spending time outside ad especially by the ocean.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm interested in seeing the south of Italy. All the years I've been coming to Italy to teach and sing I've been in the north, but my friends have come from the south. I feel so connected with people from all over Sicily, Bari, Lecce......so here I come! Then when I'm settled, I'll be able to host in return.

Interests

• tango
• cooking
• gardening
• opera
• swimming
• art
• playing piano
• tango argentino
• dancing tango
• affection

Music, Movies, and Books

Classical (and classical Middle Eastern) music, Jazz!, Rachmaninoff, Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, Mozart, Astor Piazolla and tango music, Vivaldi, Brahms, Mahler, opera, Wagner, Strauss (R.), many things Latin, drumming, anything for dancing, among many others equally great and less pathologically tragic (and possibly even post 1940, like Leonard Cohen). Also, Mina and Jacques Brel from the 70's......but then we're getting tragic again.

Words:

Rumi or Hafiz

Some heavy geek science type things

The Power of Myth

can't keep track, but also mysteries, crime novels, books about geology, sometimes really shameful romance novels.

Spiritual Soulful and Developmental:

It's always changing......at one point, Abraham Hicks on Youtube, shamanism, books which people like Karl Jung inspired, feldenkrais.

All "ethnic" cuisines including Italian, Spanish, Mexican, Ethiopian, Indian, Mexican (yes twice, oh, I missed it even when living in Italy where I cried over spaghetti!).....most sweet desserts........things not produced by Monsanto that are "organic" or simply the way nature intended them to be, and made with love.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Survived! A lot of things.....
And remained a real advocate for people.......
Learned better to love......

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cooking, I'm very clean, great conversation, music lessons, language exchange, babysitting, just ask!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Italy, Portugal