CURRENT MISSION

speak more German (teaching English makes this surprisingly difficult)

ABOUT ME

23 year old ex-pat (for how much longer I'm not yet sure) dealing with the terrifying world that is life outside university in a very grown-up sort of way: by running away to Europe for a while.

PHILOSOPHY

Be nice.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had my first surfer recently and hope to be able to host more in the future. I went on a 2+ week extravaganza in the UK to get around tricksy German visa regulations last summer and had an absolutely wonderful time as a surfer.

Interests

History, museum studies, queer politics, maps, the Arthurian legend, dialects/accents/colloquialisms, baking, beer (and baking with beer), attempting to take good photos, sometimes being successful at it, oxford commas, and (obviously) travel. I used to dance quite a lot, have done some martial arts and miss both.

• arts
• culture
• dancing
• beer
• baking
• running
• politics
• traveling
• martial arts
• cartography
• dialects
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Dead Poets Society, Everything is Illuminated, Harold and Maude, The Princess Bride.

The Decemberists, Florence and the Machine, Ingrid Michaelson, Iron and Wine, Joni Mitchell, Mika, The Magnetic Fields, The Mountain Goats, Queen, Rufus Wainwright, The Shins, Simon and Garfunkel, Tilly and the Wall.

1984, The Book Thief, Everything is Illuminated, Goodbye to Berlin, Good Omens, The Handmaid's Tale, Harry Potter, His Dark Materials Trilogy, The Little Prince, The Mists of Avalon, A People's History of the United States, The Things They Carried, Tristan und Isolde (von Straßburg's version). I'm also fan of Auden, Rilke, and Yeats.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've spent the past few months enjoying the brilliance that is watching and helping a 10 year old go from knowing no English to speaking in full (mostly coherent) sentences.

Teach, Learn, Share

I like to think I'm now something of an expert on explaining the English language and American "culture" - and discussing whether or not we actually have (a) culture in the first place.

If you're interested in Spanish swear words or German (both swears and things you can say around your Grandmother/small children) I'm your girl.