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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Learn, Live, Love
ABOUT ME
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PHILOSOPHY
smile at strangers, you never know when they will smile back
children should be seen and heard!
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Hosting & Surfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Couldn't Have traveled through Europe without it! Not to mention all of the wonderful people and experiences that happened along the way.
Interests
jazz and Rumi, late night musings, dancing with fire or in empty alleyways, getting lost in foreign cities, laughter without reason, the vivid colors of orange like the ones found in desert sunsets, the taste of rain and red wine, perusing the minds of philosophers and friends, unseen beauty and art, salsa or bachata or lindy or argentian tango, or sleazy blues, random acts of kindness, photographing the eccentricities of the world, inky scribbles on park benches, juicy fruits, midnight picnics
- arts
- beauty
- dancing
- tango
- bachata
- wine
- red wine
- jazz
- blues
- surfing
- mountains
Music, Movies, and Books
I have a love affair with music and reading and good movies, especially Habib Koite, Nina Simone, Ani Difranco, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens, Manu Chao, Amadou et Mariam, Be Good Tanyas, Bob Marley, Du Incorporation, Dobarcarcol, random fusion music on the streets, almost anything by putamayo
books: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rumi, Isabel Allende, Barbara Kingsolver
movies: Flying Daggers, Garden State, Juno, Rent (the play is better of course, but that would be most broadway and live performances), Little Miss Sunshine, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Perfume, disney
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
being put on a plane alone to Nicaragua when I was 9, geting lost in the tiny forests of Denmark and discovering a castle and being offer a job there which I still regret not taking, slipping on mountains of sand while watching the sun set in the sahara, my surprise Moroccan wedding, and that is only the beginning...
Teach, Learn, Share
"If we are to reach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children."
Countries I’ve Visited
Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, Peru, Spain
Countries I’ve Lived In
Chile, Denmark, Morocco, Switzerland, United States
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