CURRENT MISSION

to find a comfortable place on earth

ABOUT ME

This is so unfair to have to fit myself in a short description... but to try:

I am an education volunteer with the Peace Corps in Madagascar, after having spent a year with some fantastic CS-ers in Seattle, WA. Besides racking my brains out over the finer points of teaching ESL, I'm also an aspiring travel blogger/writer at (Beat Nomad) / biker / rock climber / human being.

Coffee, literature, upbeat people, and exploring the world all make me incredibly happy. Oh. And food. I adore food. Double Oh. Add Northwest beers. *sigh* le nostalgie...

PHILOSOPHY

Life is a journey.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

However I can!

I also partnered up with some friends to take over organizing my the weekly happy hour meet ups in Seattle... until I had to leave the city that is! (As is the nature of Couchsurfers...)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted some, surfed some, explored the world with others... loved it all

Interests

I love: coffee, cooking, languages, traveling (no kidding...), yoga, rock climbing, biking, literature, the coffee shop across the street from my house, Seattle, my friends, my parent's porch, and music.

I dislike: impersonal interactions, misplaced punctuation marks, when people leave the "i" out of "Jessie", and being kept from peeing when I have to.

• writing
• literature
• education
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• coffee
• yoga
• happy hour
• shopping
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• rock climbing
• teaching
• languages
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Milan Kundera, Jostein Gaarder, Joyce Carol Oates, A Long Way Gone, Conservation is Our Government Now, Hitchhikers Guide, y mas, y mas, y mas...

Music: some stuff with words, some stuff without...

Movies: Everything is Illuminated, anything with Humphrey Bogart, In a Lonely Place, Waking Life, Jeu D'enfants (Love Me if You Dare)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I slept in the Sahara, and lived in a cloud forest... This whole world is pretty amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

I have been known to drunkenly teach Ukulele in Spanglish. I don't do either well.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Costa Rica, Madagascar, Malta, United States

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