CURRENT MISSION

have an adventure, and meet cool people (yes, very original)

ABOUT ME

I was born and raised all over New England, and am very much a country girl. I'm one of seven children, currently the middle, half american(?) from my mom and Indian from my dad.
I just graduated (December 2007) from Hampshire College where I studied music, specifically songwriting. At the moment I'm helping to take care of my 8-month old cousin, Jackie, and saving up money for my next adventure. My plan is to travel around New Zealand for 2 months (march and april), work on horse farms, meet new people and learn new things.

PHILOSOPHY

it's cheezy, but being a nice person is really important. and then living a simple life, hopefully live on a farm someday, always having fun with very little work (i do believe it's possible)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i have couchsurfed with 2 great people: 1 in glasgow and 1 in edinburgh, scotland.

Interests

music definitely (guitar, fiddle, jew's harp, singing, various flutes), horses and horseriding, cooking, eating, travel, languages, hiking, reading, fiber arts (spinning, weaving, knitting), hopefully in the future Hang-gliding, anything fun

• animals
• horses
• arts
• singing
• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• knitting
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• jewish
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: wind walker,last of the mohicans, x-men, underworld, much ado about nothing, finding nemo
music: joni mitchell, ben harper, van morrison, nina simone, fiona apple, jimi hendrix, sublime, cat stevens, alison krauss, niel young, tracy chapman, norwegian folkemusic, p.susheela
Books: all of Jean M. Auel's work, Anne Rice books, Tom Brown, Peterson's Guides, Nicholas Evans, LOTR, just started Harry Potter books...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i climbed to the highest cathedral i could see in Barcelona, only to find a "jesus themepark" (complete with circus rides).
killed a deer (with my car), skinned, and ate it.
played in the mud flats in the Bay of Fundy (i have pictures).

Teach, Learn, Share

intermediate guitar player, though i do have a fairly large repretiore of folk songs (mostly joni mitchell), love teaching fiber art stuff (spinning, weaving, knitting, felting), good cook, anything from indian and japanese cuisine to apple pie and a killer carrot cake. any languages that i know or have studied. random wilderness skills (starting fires, skinning animals, etc.)