CURRENT MISSION

To meet as many wonderful people of the world as I can!

ABOUT ME

I always have trouble with describing who I am! My friends say I'm sassy, but I don't know if that's entirely true... I like to keep my life organized, but I'm always open to change. I'm hardworking and determined; whatever I set my mind to do, I do, but I'm not stubborn. I guess you could say I occupy both ends of the spectrum, depending on the situation I'm in. And... yea, that's all I can really think of to say!

PHILOSOPHY

These are some of my favorite quotes that form my personal philosophy:

"...you know that LMU has not prepared you for the real world, it's asked you to challenge it. It has asked you to forgo the service of the bottom line and asked you to serve those who line the bottom, and to seek a mutuality and a friendship with the poor, moving beyond solidarity, which is when your heart is in the right place, and moving into kinship, where your feet are in the right place..." Fr. Greg Boyle LMU 2011 Commencement

"We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation
in realizing that. This enables us to do something,
and to do it very well." - Archbishop Oscar Romero

"Do more than exist, live
Do more than touch, feel
Do more than look, observe
Do more than read, absorb
Do more than hear, listen
Do more than listen, understand
Do more than think, ponder
Do more than talk, say something." - Anonymous

"Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.” - John Wesley

"Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.” - Pedro Arrupe

"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?" - Ever After (Quoted from Sir Thomas More's Utopia)

"Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live." - Tuck Everlasting

"Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life." - Easy A

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." - Pride & Prejudice

"It is said some lives are linked across time. There are certain people connected by an ancient calling that echoes through the ages.........destiny."- Prince of Persia

"To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation, and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." - Paulo Coelho

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."- Albert Einstein

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create." - Pope John Paul II

"Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me I would love him alone and forever." - Francesca Bruni from Casanova

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."- Moulin Rouge

"In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty... handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with." -Juno

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am new to CouchSurfing so I haven't had many chances to participate in CS other than surfing a couple times but I hope I can participate more in the future by getting coffee or a drink with anyone who is looking for suggestions of things to do in San Francisco or Los Angeles!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have gotten drinks with a few people and surfed a couple times.

Interests

I love watching films and making films! But I also like to dance, play basketball and soccer, and ride horses. And travel!!!

• horses
• dancing
• education
• coffee
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• surfing
• basketball
• soccer
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Pretty much anything and everything!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Visited oil contaminated regions of the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States