CURRENT MISSION

find the beauty - pinch it

ABOUT ME

when eric and i had a house together. we hosted a ton. he maintained our couchsurfing account. see here my old co-couchsurf world: https://www.couchsurfing.org/people/schrepel/

i am minka (once kristin).
i like the fun, wonderful, and delicious.

PHILOSOPHY

;)

finding beauty every day

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i've hosted some lovely people many a time, great funs. especially when i had a big ol house. times are a lil different and i am staying with friends and not able to host right now.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

have stayed with many folks -

stayed with many people while traveling for 3 months in se asia with my daught :) just wonderful.

now, with couchsurfing we have had many people over and stayed mucho places - thanks y'all.

Interests

weather-proofing bicycle rides, art instillation, dance, accordion, building things, tandeming on my hot-pink bicycle with my dog, anonymous good doing, thinking/sketching, talking with accents, espressomap, growing gardens, identifying plants, learning, cooking/baking, making cheese!, fun people, laughing, improv (improvizational writing), kissing chu, playing dress-up, littering the streets with valentines, moustachios, pickling, canning, jam making, eating seasonally, silliness, picnics, comics, making stuff with kids and grown-ups, youtube, flickr, bento (packable foods), diabolo yoyo, and working on my polish tango, trapeze, bee keepery, swimming (looking at people under the water), dancing my pants off to balkan, bowie, 80's... oh-no-ie!

• pets
• cats
• dogs
• chickens
• arts
• writing
• sketching
• beauty
• dancing
• tango
• dining
• cooking
• cheese
• baking
• comics
• traveling
• origami
• violin
• swimming
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

accordion -- eastern block (yes!)
brass (give me the horns and especially tuba + clarinet)
3 leg torso
amestoy trio
regina spektor
david bowie
80's
the supremes
cinematic orchestra
paul simon
pink martini
y la bamba
...

books:
blue pills (a positive love story)
the schwa effect
where the sidewalk ends
love medicine
popular music from vitula
...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

pet a bumble bee.

our cat. have you seen this cat? because it is awesome.

and our chickens. quintuply-awesome.

there are many things that somehow i cannot recall as these lil bio-fill-outers go on forever!

i'll tell you when I meet you -- as i'm feel like an gloater/anti-performer the look @ me/look @ me auro is no longer sitting on top of my head.

Teach, Learn, Share

accordion, bee keeping, making delicious food, handstands, jokes, polish, russian, ukrainian, yiddish (love these slovic languages). acupuncture, origami, fiddle tune (my daught plays violin). and things i couldn't imagine!

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, Laos, Mexico, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States