CURRENT MISSION

Eat Well Travel Often

ABOUT ME

I am absolutely overwhelmed by the world. I want to see, learn and experience as much as possible. I love the arts and the outdoors. I am always up for an interesting conversation. I love FOOD and a good drink.

PHILOSOPHY

The worst thing that can happen to you is that you can learn something about yourself, right? (Woody Allen's Manhattan)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Anytime I travel the first thing I think about is CS. I find CS to be an overall lifestyle choice and I look forward to incorporating it more in the next chapter of my life.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Joining CS has been the best decision. I have found that CS is about meeting people all over the world and learning from them. It was the best part of being in Europe! I would have been lost without CS and now I have some great friends from it. One actually came back to the US and visited me :)

Interests

Skiing, Hiking, Conversing, Arts, Museums, Nightlife (Dancing), Traveling (of course), EATING, outdoor activities, culture, music...

• arts
• culture
• dancing
• waltz
• dining
• seafood
• vegetarian
• nightlife
• drinking
• gardening
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• camping
• skiing
• law
• au-pair

Music, Movies, and Books

Antigone by Anoui, Philosophy of Andy Warhol, The Big Sleep, The Bell Jar, Harry Potter, Diving Bell and the Butterfly (book and movie), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Eat/Pray/Love (the book), Hunger Games, Forks Over Knives Food, Inc, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, SNL, 30 Rock, Dexter, How I Met Your Mother, New Girl...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was an Au Pair in Spain : ) I spent a month in California as a camp counselor for half of the time and spent the other time traveling, couchsurfing, and hiked up a mountain called Suicide Rock I have gone to Canada 3x to snow ski and did a double black diamond and 1x in Portland, ORTeared up at the Monet exhibit in Chicago :p Zip lined in Florida I have been a vegetarian (who eats seafood- so pescatarian) for 2 years... committment is difficult for me so this is an accomplishment.

Teach, Learn, Share

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how" -Nietzsche

"I would never go for that guy. He's the type of guy that has a linen closet and a towel warmer. You know me. I'm only attracted to guys who are afraid of success and think someone famous stole their idea. I like an underdog." -Jess, The New Girl

"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe,in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart"
- Anne Frank

"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love

"When I look in the mirror I only know that I don't see myself as others see me. Because I'm looking at myself the way I want to see myself. I make expressions just for myself. I don't make the expressions other people see me make."
-Andy Warhol

"If you can't laugh at yourself, life's gonna seem a whole lot longer than you like."
-Garden State

"An Eye For an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind."
- Gandhi Bumper Sticker

"Life goes on. Maybe there won't be marriage... maybe there won't be sex... but, by God, there'll be dancing. "
- Best Friend's Wedding

"Better to regret the things you've done, than the ones you didn't do..."
- My Mom

wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever. Andy Warhol

The journey is the destination. TOMS

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is. Bob Dylan

"You seem restless, in a kind of permanent way." Take This Waltz

It's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission. Guy at Fermentation Lounge.