I’m an Iranian-Canadian girl from Vancouver, Canada. I moved to Canada when I was 14 and I have been living there with my family for the last 18 years. I love solo travel and I am a very social person. What matters to me the most when I travel are the connections I make: to people, places, cultures. I am very passionate about social justice and try to be empathetic and mindful of different social causes.

*Side note but very important: I do not use Couchsurfing for dating purposes. I use it for cultural exchange and generally having a good time with good people! So if you are using Couchsurfing as a dating app, please note that I have no tolerance for this and find it disturbing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meet people, make friends

Interests

• dancing
• beer
• coffee
• snorkeling
• languages
• road trips
• sightseeing
• beaches
• learning new things
• local food
• meeting new people
• volcanoes
• indigenous cultures
• cenotes
• history and culture

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Any kind of latin music, some American pop (Rihanna, The Weeknd, etc), basically any international song that sounds good to my ears!

Movies (I took course on French cinema and am interested in all sorts):

Roma, La La Land, Blue is the warmest color, the Shape of Water, Coco, The Artist, John Wick, Mad Max: Fury Road, Drive, The Salesman, Blue Valentine, Beatriz at Dinner, Good on Paper, The Place Beyond the Pines, Silver Linings Playbook, The Awakenings, Bohemian Rhapsody, American History X, La vie en rose, Okja, The King, Beautiful Boy, Little Women, Babyteeth, 500 Days of Summer, The Sound of Music, RBG, The Dark Knight, Joker, I Lost my Body, Hot Summer Nights, Spy, Promising Young Woman, Babel, Thelma & Louisei, Poor Things

Books:
I don’t read a lot

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Saw an active volcano!

Teach, Learn, Share

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”

-Rumi (Persian poet)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Great company! Share my Iranian as well as Canadian culture. Language exchange, etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Iran, Mexico, Monaco, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, French Guiana, Iran