CURRENT MISSION

Get a new perspective.

ABOUT ME

In the 35 years I have walked this earth I have been a wide spectrum of things. I have been the child and the caregiver, been shallow and deep, been smart and have been stupid all too many times. I have been privileged and the way things are going I will soon live the life of a bum. Always the sinner, once a saint and a martyr. Experienced the family life and has been orphaned. I've loved completely, I'€™ve hated deeply. I've been a student (always will be) and I've been a teacher. I modelled before I was a waitress (reverse Hollywood syndrome). Lived in the East, resided on the West. Has lived on both sides of the coasts, and both large oceans. I'€™ve lived, I’ve died, obviously lived again. I’ve been the social butterfly, I’ve been the ostracized one and apparently lately the wallflower. Have abused and been abused. Been a dog person, been a cat person. One to stay up late for the sunrise, staked out countless sunsets. Lived with a Jewish grandma, grew up with Muslims and went to an all-girls Catholic school, pressured to be a Born-again by my bestfriend (don'€™t even start with me on religion, I'm DONE with it). Been a smoker, can'™t stand it now. Been drunk for days consecutively, been sober for weeks at a time. Been the poison, been the cure. Been a prude, been impure. Always the honest compulsive liar. Never does her homework, writes final papers in a pub. Been a person of principle, and a hypocrite. Rode the very highs, scraped the lowest of lows. Campaigned for many causes to change the world, failing to realize that the greatest cause that I should've campaigned for was to change myself. I'€™ve thrown it all away, packed up shop and started all over again, time and time again. I've played many parts, walked many, many miles in someone else'€™s shoes and yet I know that there is still yet hundreds of miles and many paths in front of me.

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PHILOSOPHY

MY TRAVELOSOPHY: Take nothing but photographs and leave nothing but broken hearts ... I mean footprints

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've worked for the CS project in it's earlier years. Hosted and recruited many surfers during my time. Gave tour guides around cities I've lived in. Even did a photo shoot for a couple on their honeymoon.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

HOSTED:
*canadians carl and carl
*mathieu groulx
*celine le bon
*vince galoul
*kiwi jeremy (cooljero)
*leonardo silveira
*ashley sawyer
*ethan abrams
*oscar retana
SURFED:
*marco izaguirre
*joel brabant
*sebastian le tuan
*chawap in thailand
*nick in mexico
*kiwi steve in maui
*bianca silveira
*met buffalo mike in montreal and partied it up then surfed his couch in buffalo and had some awesome indian food a few years later! now he has to come to spain
MET WITH:
oh god where do i start? ... let's just go with A LOT OF PEOPLE

Interests

photography , books, art, music, writing, the beach, the ocean, wandering around museums, futbal (soccer), travel , surfing, climbing, camping, chocolat, new experiences, backpacking, van gogh, languages , good food, good wine, espresso and good coffee (the strong ones you find around the Mediterranean), shopping, long idle conversations, les etoiles (the kind that twinkles, not the ones in LA who think the world revolves around their blonde head), pleasure, learning, meandering about town, seeing what Chinatown is like in every city, every country, spending hours alone in a coffee shop just “being”, spending hours alone in a coffee shop with a good friend lost in long comfortable conversation and long comfortable silences, being alone in my flat singing at the top of my lungs and dancing madly.

• cats
• dogs
• arts
• writing
• books
• singing
• photography
• dancing
• causes
• dining
• wine
• indian food
• coffee
• pub crawls
• shopping
• traveling
• music
• fishing
• backpacking
• camping
• surfing
• rock climbing
• soccer
• teaching
• languages
• religion
• tourism
• beaches
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC

Genres: Classical. Jazz. Rock. Hip hop. Latin. Indie.

Specifically : Maurice Ravel. Stan Getz. the Gilbertos.
Oscar Peterson. Nina Simone. Yo Yo Ma. Louis Armstrong.
Ray Charles. Quincy Jones. Ella Fitzgerald. Dean
Martin. Peter Tchaikovsky. Pink Martini. The Cat
Empire. Incubus. Patricia Kaas. Carla Bruni. Moloko. Jack Johnson. The Rolling
Stones. A Tribe Called Quest. DÂ’Angelo. Seal. MC
Solaar. Mozart. Swing Out Sister. Schumann. Diana
Krall. Gal Costa. Jamiroquia. Tom Jobim. Maroon 5.
Count Basie. Oasis. Duke Ellington. 311. The Beatles.
Chet Baker.

MOVIES

I actually rarely watch movies Â… living in LA jades you
I guess. Some stuff I do like though Â… Waking Life. The
DevilÂ’s Advocate. Y Tu Mama Tambien. The Talented Mr.
Ripley. The Motorcycle Diaries. Sabrina. Rear Window.
Se7en. Lost in Translation. L'auberge Espagnole. Shutter. Olde Boy.
Charade. Roman Holiday. Jeux D'enfants. Casablanca. Scent of a Woman.

BOOKS

Baudolino. The Prince by Machiavelli. Old Man and the
Sea. FocaultÂ’s Pendulum. Catcher in the Rye. The
Giver. Sherlock Holmes. The Diary of Anne Frank. The
Virgin Suicides. anything Homer and Greek myths. Lolita. Anna
Karenina. His Dark Materials trilogy. The Count of
Monte Cristo.
Picture of Dorian Gray . Breaking the
Tongue. A Series of Unfortunate Events. Girl With a
Pearl Earring. LOTR trilogy. The Bell Jar. Phantom of
the Opera. Seven Years in Tibet . Gael Garcia Marquez
. Langston Hughes . Noli Me Tangere. Princess: A True
Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia. The
Bean Trees. The Modern Neurosis Handbook. Istanbul:
Memories and the City. Memoirs of a Geisha. Jules
Verne .
Blue Skin of the Sea.

FOOD

I just had to include it. ItÂ’s a sine que non part of my life.

Chocolate. the darker. the better. Banana pancakes. Nuts. Steak. Honey. I swear by it. Garlic. Mangoes ... yellow and green … there is this native dish that I adore which is sour green mangoes with an anchovy paste (don’t knock it ‘til you’ve tried it). Sashimi. Flan. Curry. Baklava. Seafood. Peanut butter. Ice cream (it’s so good. it should be illegal).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

·Pirated the largest sailboat in the world.
·Woke up to the sun rising in house of the sun, Haleakala.
·Had deer-death experience.
·Got in the water with a 30-foot humpback whale.
·Swam with dozens of dolphins.
·Found an old Japanese fishing float.
·Swam the murky rivers of the Amazon.
·Climbed the dizzying Andes peaks.
·Held my breath as the morning mist parted to reveal Machu Picchu.
·Lived in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica and actually learned something from the place.
·Visited Castro's Cuba.
·Rockclimbed Montserrat, Catalunya.
·Did the Camino del Rey in El Chorro, Malaga.

Teach, Learn, Share

How to make flan. Some languages. Scout skills? What not to do when surfing. Photography.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Costa Rica, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, United States

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