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Adams Morgan, District of Columbia, United States
@IDEALISTA23
Member since 2011
CURRENT MISSION Currently working in Peru! New in town ABOUT ME Third culture kid and love to engross myself in new people and cultures, beliefs, traditions etc...I am a lover of all things fair trade, festivals, food, shots, poetry slam, languages, dance dance dance. PHILOSOPHY Be soft, do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. -Kurt Vonnegut
Fluent in English
Fluent in Spanish
Learning Arabic
Learning Portuguese
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I have met up with a great couchsurfers and looking forward to more couchsurfing experiences this year while studying abroad!
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: Paradise Now, Amelie, Como Agua para Chocolate, Bliss, Kill Bill, Gangs of New York, Caramel. Music: The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Elissa (Lebanon), Cultura Profetica, Natiruts, Shakira old and sometimes new when I'm dancing, The Strokes, The Ramones, EDM, The Black Cats (Iran), Jorge Drexler, Los Prisioneros, Gustavo Cerati.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
I swam in the Mayan Ruins in Tolum,Mexico. I held an alligator in Peru, Climbed to the door of the sun in Machu Picchu, I jumped off a waterfall in the Dominican Republic, and have somehow managed to stay alive until now..=0!
My Interests
Books, Arabic and Farsi poetry, dancing, EDM, tea, bellydancing, hookah, knitting, backpacking, culture, Hayao Miyazaki, gender equality, commune living.
