CURRENT MISSION

Slow down. Relax. Enjoy the world. Teach my children to also enjoy the world and love it.

ABOUT ME

I now travel with my husband Aurélien who is from France and our two sweet daughters, Leila, who is eight and Maiya who is five.
I love meeting people and having insightful conversations. I love learning new things.
I am adventurous and usually avoid visiting "touristic" cities, and when I do, I try to learn more about the city through its people instead of its sites.

PHILOSOPHY

Always be willing to learn and change. The moment you close your mind, you also stop living.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am thrilled to join CS and think its a better way to travel and as I begin I would like to contribute as much as possible.
I have had the wonderful opportunity to be hosted by many amazing people, and hopefully if anyone visits my little corner of the world I can do the same for them.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The several years I have been lucky enough to have many couchsurfing experiences all of which were quite amazing and I met some of the greatest people that I will never forget. I have also had quite a few unofficial, where i have met people while traveling and have been invited to stay at their place. Either or I have had some amazing experiences meeting people, making friends, and getting a true experience of many places that I would not have gotten without the wonderful friends I made there. I love couchsurfing and the more I use it the more I want it to grow in the same positive direction.

Interests

traveling, books, culture, language, religions, people, food, cooking for people, eating good food, drinking, yoga, hiking

• horses
• culture
• books
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• drinking
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• hiking
• geography
• religion
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I love all types of music... some artists I really enjoy are Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Tom Petty, Aldebert, Coldplay, Nirvana, Matt Nathanson, Bob Marley, Sublime, Jack Johnson, Jewel, La Rue Ketanou, Alanis Morisette, Ben Harper, A Perfect Circle, James Taylor, 311, Aaron Neville, Sheryll Crow, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simon, Lily Allen, the Cranberries but I always like to expand my interests!! :)

Movies- What Dreams May Come, V for Vendetta, Yes Man, Apocalypto, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Boondock Saints, City of Good, Inception,Gangs of New York, Lucky Number Slevin, Coraline, Pulp Fiction, Law Abiding Citizen, Grease, Edward Scissorhands, Apocalypse Now, The Shawshank Redemption, Sweeney Todd, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Titanic, Erin Brokavich, Spirited Away, Wall-E, The Flowers of War, The Last King of Scotland, Waking Life, Life is Beautiful, Blow, The Pianist, Zorro, The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas, Moliere, Casanova, Requiem for a Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Cell, Pretty Woman, Renaissance Man, The Book of Eli

Books- Shantaram, Hokkaido Highway Blues, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Crime and Punishment, A Thouand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner, Tuesdays with Morrie, Eat Pray Love, Ishmael, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, My Horizontal Life, The White Tiger, The REd Tent, I Know This Much is True, God's Debris, How To WIn Friends and Influence People, A Streetcar Named Desire, Candide, The Secret, In Cold Blood, The Picture of Dorian Grey

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Slept on a beach in Myanmar in a part of the country not yet open to foreigners after hanging out with a government official who found us there and tried to let us know foreigners aren't allowed there. Swam with the phosphorescence, rode motorcycles past traditional villages that have never seen a foreigner and live in a way so simple yet beautiful that is rarely see any more in the world.

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Teach, Learn, Share

teach: english, french, yoga, health
learn: dance, any language, mountain climbing, geography

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cooking, yoga, budget travel techniques, health, natural treatments

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Curaçao, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kosovo, Laos, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Malaysia, Martinique, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Lebanon, Thailand, United States

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