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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
to look at each moment as it passes me by
ABOUT ME
i started traveling abroad when i was 15 by myself and got bitten by the travel bug really bad...and now i cant stop! After finishing high school i took a year off and bummed my way through Europe for 11 months on my own living on nutella, spready cheese, and rice, while stopping in 7 countries along the way and i have never been so happy. I am a recent graduate of Ithaca College with a degree in Culture, Communication and Religion and want to make a career out of travel, my biggest passion! I am currently on a cross country road trip for the next month with my best friend, ending in Washington and stopping along the way to see my beautiful country.
PHILOSOPHY
never say never
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Getting in contact with locals wherever i am
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
i have met so many amazing people through couchsurfing, i dont know what i would have done without it on my past trips. I have surfed all over Germany, England, France, Hungary, Netherlands and Switzerland and have hosted in VT as well
Interests
traveling, cultures and languages, FOOD (anything at all but unusual cupcakes are my favorite), snowboarding, surfing, fashion, MUSIC (from folk, to classic rock, to minimal electro), clubbing, writing, walks in the city
- culture
- writing
- fashion
- dining
- cooking
- wine
- cheese
- walking
- drinking
- clubbing
- traveling
- music
- cycling
- surfing
- snowboarding
- skateboarding
- swimming
- languages
- religion
- mountains
Music, Movies, and Books
music: bonobo, mos def, fleet foxes, thievery corporation, santigold, the budos band, lykke li, royksopp, red hot chili peppers, common, paul kalkbrenner, cut chemist, rjd2,jurassic 5, the strokes, el guincho
movies: the fall, the reader, edward scissorhands, undercover brother, Amelie Poulain, angel-a, eternal sunshine, the boondock saints, the fountain, crash, the skin i live in
books: 1984, Orlando, when the emperor was divine, the picture of dorian gray, the inferno, the great gatsby, the good earth, the interesting narrative
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
driving all night through Switzerland and waking up to the mountains of Austria
going to the christmas market in Budapest and drinking spiced wine with people from all over the world
walking along the North Sea in Germany in winter
swimming in the Mediterranean in Greece and eating fresh figs from the trees
learning to breakdance and performing as the only girl on my schools team
getting a tattoo in Switzerland
Teach, Learn, Share
I can tell you about America, teach some French and a bit of German,how to skateboard, windsurf and snowboard, how to make the BEST grilled cheese sandwich, how to discover wonderful things in a new place, how to do a cartwheel and a handstand, and how to BREAKDANCE (going on 2 years now :)
i want to learn whatever language you speak and try your favorite dish to cook/eat. I want to learn how to properly drive a motor bike and how to navigate around your city...in fact i just want to learn whatever you want to teach me!
Countries I’ve Visited
France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Countries I’ve Lived In
France, Germany, United States
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