23 year old graduate student in social work, amateur musician, passionate about spirituality as a means of transforming self & society. Love meeting people, having good conversations, seeing live music

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Doing a little traveling while on "spring" break from school -- also down to host people at my spot in Yspilanti, a small funky city located outside Ann Arbor and just half an hr from Detroit

Interests

• arts
• poetry
• dancing
• music
• live music
• social work
• spirituality
• social justice
• activism

Music, Movies, and Books

first that come to mind: Jonathan Richman, Velvet Underground, Grateful Dead, Mac Demarco, King Krule, Sheer Mag, Frankie Cosmos, Joanna Newsom, Miss Lauryn Hill... Punk, folk (old time & contemporary folky stuff), rock n roll, country (especially old stuff - Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Townes van Zandt), hip-hop of all kinds, jazz, stuff I can dance to

movies: Star Wars, Wes Anderson movies, Charlie Kaufman ones, Jim Jarmusch, Paul Thomas Anderson

books: Beat Generation stuff, Middlesex, Patti Smith, Carl Jung, spirituality literature

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

amazing for me: spent a month in India a couple years ago, stayed at a Tibetan Buddhist university and learned Buddhist philosophy amongst monks & nuns in the town where the Buddha gave his first teachings (Sarnath)

Teach, Learn, Share

happy to teach/share music/songs (guitar & other folk instruments), share wisdom from world religious traditions, teach mindfulness meditation / basic contemplative practices

What I Can Share with Hosts

Can cook for you, help out with around-the-house errands, provide you with some empathic responding / therapeutic presence (though I think legally I have to say that I'm not NOT a licensed social worker yet, and this isn't therapy!), a little bit of $$$ maybe

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Greece, India, Ireland, United Kingdom