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Overview
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