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Overview

  • 8 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Arabic (North Levantine), Hebrew (modern), Spanish, Turkish
  • 33, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • student, poet, amateur wanderer
  • BA middle east studies
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

teach some kids English

ABOUT ME

I'm an American who recently moved to Be'er Sheva. I'm volunteering in the Bedouin city of Rahat. I really like Israeli ice coffee (i.e., slushy coffee) and practicing my Hebrew and Arabic.

PHILOSOPHY

~coexistence~

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can´t host anyone right now, but I would love to meet people and explore the south together!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted a few people while I had a semi-permanent couch in the US, and I´ve surfed in Turkey and Israel.

Interests

kittens, travel, radical feminism, baking bread, learning languages, history, poetry, judaism, cookies, literary theory, magical realism, iced coffee, postcolonial theory and literature, trying to learn to knit, identity politics, rain storms, pondering the end of days

  • writing
  • literature
  • poetry
  • beauty
  • womens rights
  • coffee
  • baking
  • politics
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • knitting
  • history
  • languages

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once upon a time I rode through ancient ruins in the Syrian desert on the back of a motorcycle to catch the sunrise.

Teach, Learn, Share

english! hebrew! arabic!

if you have a real oven in be'er sheva, i will bake for you.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Montenegro, Poland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, Turkey, United States

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