36 year old high school science teacher. I'm friendly, love to laugh, love meeting new people, love long random conversations over coffee, tea, wine or beer. I teach biology and environmental science. Spent 3 years abroad teaching at an international school in Rome and miss the cultural exchange and the travel. I loave my beeeeaaaauuutiful city and also getting out of it to explore rivers and trails. I have a friendly lab mix dog Cash who likes to tag along.
PHILOSOPHY

"I am a part of all that I have met, yet each experience is an arch where through gleams that untravelled world whose margins fade for ever and for ever as we move". Tennyson

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

It all started at the Fiat party in Torino at the unveiling of the new Fiat 500. Two lovely Piemontese girls saved me from an awkward interaction with some amorous Italian men. They introduced me to the group invited me out to dinner and also over for amazing lasagna and regional treats. My first real experience making Italian friends! Now whenever I travel I love to meet local people through CS. Also looking forward to sharing my love of Oregon with others.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Random dinners with passers-through in Roma, Brat frys on the river in Bern, Christmas Eve party in Madrid, Drinks in Catania, dancing in Istanbul, aperitivi in Roma, boating in Victoria... the list goes on! When I moved back to Portland, the local couchsurfing community helped me make friends and find community locally.

Interests

adventures, art, animals, autumn, backpacking, beaches, books, buddhists, choirs, celebrations, constructivism, dancing, dirt, ecoroofs, family, flowers, forests, friends, frisbee, gardening, hiking, house parties, hot tubs, human rights, laughter, lewis and clark college, love, maps, massages, mexican food, mountains, movies, mt tabor, music, musicals, nature, new things, novels, npr, parker palmer, peace, piano, plants, poetry, progressive, quakers, rafting, red, rivers, salsa, se portland, singing, soccer, snow, sunshine, sustainability, swing, tango, tea, theater, travel, unitarians, water, wetlands, wildlife, william stafford

• animals
• dogs
• wildlife
• arts
• books
• poetry
• singing
• theater
• dancing
• tango
• human rights
• dining
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• mexican food
• running
• partying
• drinking
• house parties
• gardening
• boating
• flowers
• movies
• traveling
• music
• piano
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• skydiving
• soccer
• biology
• cartography
• teaching
• science
• beaches
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Ani DiFranco
Killers
Bon Iver
Hello Saferide
George Winston
Lykke Li
Santogold
Roisin Murphy
Emiliana Torinni
Counting Crows
Gin Blossoms
Ella Fitzgerald
Cake
David Grey
James Taylor

So I Married an Axe Murderer
Office Space
Juno

Chappell Show
Daily Show

Eat, Love, Pray
Alchemist
Kiterunner
3 Cups of Tea

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sitting in a wood fired hot tub in the Swiss Alps, all-night hotspring run to Virterbo, camping trip to Mont Blanc, skydiving in Molalla, peering into the sulfery active crater at Mt. Etna, dancing to Tarantella music with the locals in Cinque Terre and enjoying a ocean dip at 3am, meeting and talking to travelers.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United States

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