I'm 20 and I've lived both as an exchange student in Switzerland and as an Au Pair in Germany. I love playing music, cooking and eating. I've lived most of my life in the USA. I'll soon be off to University to study Physics, I hope to be an astronaut. I play guitar and sing, music is a big part of my life, as is food, I have been cooking for many years, I have never trained formally, but I hope to someday, and I try to collect interesting recipes.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meeting and staying with locals is always infinitely more interesting and rewarding than in a hostel or hotel, and hosting people is such an cool way to meet interesting people from around the world.

Interests

Traveling, guitar, learning languages, reading, working out, biking, rowing, sewing, cooking, baking, snowboarding, snowshoeing, kayaking, gardening.

• books
• singing
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• baking
• working out
• gardening
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• kayaking
• snowboarding
• snowshoeing
• rowing
• communications
• languages
• physics
• volunteering
• au-pair

Music, Movies, and Books

My favorite movies have to be The Incredibles, Big Fish, It's a Wonderful Life, To Kill a Mockingbird, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Airplane, The Mask, Shrek,

TV Shows: Criminal Minds, Daredevil, Avatar the Last Airbender, Adventure Time, Community, Blue Mountain State, The Black List

Favorite Artists and Bands: The Killers, Zedd, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, Craig D'Andrea, Alkaline Trio, The Gaslight Anthem (their first three albums), Bruce Springsteen, Daft Punk, Maroon 5

Favorite books: (this one is hard because I've read so many) Redwall-Bryan Jaques, L'Etranger-Albert Camus, The Hobbit-Tolkein, Tales From Outer Suburbia-Shaun Tan, Cannery Row-John Steinbeck, You Don't Know Me-David Klass, The God of Small Things- Arundhati Roy

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

As I was living in Switzerland as an exchange student I went with a few friends to visit Geneva for the day The same day happened to be a Holiday in Geneva, I never found out exactly what it was celebrating. A friend who lived in Geneva happened to be a junior volunteer for the fire department, when we met up with her she got a call, they needed someone to hand out flyers, during a parade, from a vintage fire truck. So we all did it. We got to sit in a 75 year old fire truck, and hand out flyers to thousands of people during a parade that covered most of the city, essentially getting a free tour of the whole city from the fire department, while sitting in one of their trucks.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to learn languages, even if it's just a few words or phrases in the local language I would love to learn it. I would love to learn about local authors, filmmakers, artists, and musicians. I can share great stories of my home and the people in it, along with my cooking and musical skills.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I have been playing guitar for almost eight years, I am no master but I can certainly teach a few chords, if the host already plays guitar then playing together would be great. I'm always up to help with English or French. I am also a fantastic cook and baker, and I love to share my skills.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Switzerland, United States