CURRENT MISSION

To taste culture from all over the world and all walks of life

ABOUT ME

I am a passionate traveler who appreciates learning through experiences, especially social ones. I've seen so much of the world and danced amongst so many cultures and yet there is always more. My travels have slowed significantly from the six months a year abroad to being more attracted to creating community here in Portland, I still really enjoy a good adventure though. Cooking is a family pastime that continues in me, love to cook with or for hosts. In Portland I host a ton of dinner parties and other events, hike and backpack as much as I can, dance all the time, sing in my car as loud as I can, and try to avoid the couch at all costs!

PHILOSOPHY

"YOU CANNOT DO A KINDNESS TO SOON, FOR YOU NEVER KNOW HOW SOON WILL BE TO LATE"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to continue to open myself up to giving and see this experience as a vehicle to do so!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It's been nothing short of amazing! I hosted a couple from Germany (among many others) and then went to see them in Munich and look forward to seeing them and others again!

Interests

Hiking, dancing, cooking (dinner parties), ultimate, mountain biking, running, family, student, snowboarding, basketball, foreign flicks.

Interests:Exploring the different kinds of toothpaste from around the world, loosing my hearing at as many concerts as i can get to, breaking my knee on a snowboard, cooking mystery dinners for friends, dancing tell the music stops

• arts
• culture
• books
• beauty
• concerts
• music festivals
• festivals
• dancing
• environment
• cooking
• running
• partying
• clothing
• music
• hip-hop music
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• snowboarding
• basketball
• beaches
• pearl jam

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Just finished Johnny Cash's autobiography, Everything is Illuminating, and Gertrude. Authors (because if I usually like one book of theirs, I'll read another) Quinn, Allende, Kingsoliver, Vonnegut, Sedaris, Palahniuk, Hesse. For masculinity (It's what my thesis is on) - Bly, Meade, J. Campbell etc. I can't get enough Tom Robbins, wish the dude would write another book! I also appreciate Rumi! One of the best and hardest books you'll ever read, A Fine Balance, good luck with that!

Movies: Good Will Hunting, Shawshank Redemption, Once Were Warriors, American History X, Catch Me if you Can, City of God, City of Lost Children, Amores Perros, The Counterfeiters, The Crime of Padre Amaro, The Crow, Das Boot, The Baader Meinhof Complex, Death at a Funeral, Fight Club, Footloose, Hellboy, Gatica, Grease, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Godfather, L'Auberge Espagnole, Gegen die Wand, and Carne trémula. That's not even a tenth.

Music: Everything from German hip hop to blues and even the occasional metal. Otis Redding, Pearl Jam, Dire Straights, Volbeat - is the fnnn business!, MJ, The Black Keys, Tool, Johnny Lang, Buddy Guy, Arctic Monkey, Johnny Cash, Common, Mos Def, Jarabe De Palo, Manu Chao, Simon and Garfunkel, Prince, Sigor Ros, Stereophonics, Matisyahu, Tribalistas, Bob Schneider, Amos Lee, Mickey Avalon and the one no one will admit, Journey (you better not stop "believing!").

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We'll save that for a good conversation!

Teach, Learn, Share

Some quotes that mean a lot to me!

Once upon a time I wanted to know what love was. Love is there if you want to be, you just have to see that it’s rapped in beauty and hidden away between the seconds of your life. If you don’t stop for a minute, you might miss it.

"To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone."

free your mind and your ass will follow or free your ass and your mind will follow, what ever suits your needs ;-)

when the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets,
enlightens and opens ways for better understanding. where those who are not artist are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.....
-Robert Henri The Art Spirit, 1923

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." - Ansel Adams

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Germany, Guatemala, United States

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