CURRENT MISSION

pay it forward...

ABOUT ME

A country girl getting used to being a city girl.
A student at Northwestern University, studying Theatre...and Italian, and Dance, and Psychology, and whatever else I can get myself into.
A blossoming puppeteer.
An avid tap dancer.
Eager to get out and explore new cultures, adding new colors to my palette.

PHILOSOPHY

In the making! but for now, here's a quote I live by:

"I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
-Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903 in Letters to a Young Poet

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed: ITALY- Pinerolo, Torino, Palermo, Napoli, Cervia

Interests

theatre, dance, singing, puppetry, music, circus, literature, people, cultures, folktales, baking, silliness, adventures, art

• arts
• books
• literature
• singing
• dancing
• tap dancing
• baking
• music
• cycling
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

favorite books:
"Still Life With Woodpecker" - Tom Robbins; "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" - Rebecca Wells; "The World According to Garp"- John Irving; "Siddhartha" - Herman Hesse; "Girl, Interrupted" -Susanna Kaysen; The Lord of the Rings trilogy - Tolkien
Favorite music:
Simon and Garfunkel, The Decemberists, Fiona Apple, Ani DiFranco, The Swell Season, R.E.M., Andrew Bird, The Mountain Goats, Stars, Nickel Creek, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes
Favorite movies:
Pan's Labyrinth, The Green Mile, Moulin Rouge, La vita è bella, Fight Club, and anything by Jim Henson, particularly Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My first year at college, I rode my bike along Lake Michigan in early spring. I stood at the lakeside as the ice was melting and cracking and being pushed towards the shore; it looked like an endless stretch of broken window panes pushed on top of each other in jagged rows. The roaring sound of miles of cracking and shifting ice was phenomenal!

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm an experienced dancer (especially tap dancing), singer, actress, puppeteer, and all-around performer. I'd be happy to share what I know, though I'm sure you have something to teach me, too!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, Greece, Italy

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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