CURRENT MISSION

Tour Europe

ABOUT ME

I love meeting new people and learning about different cultures and customs. I'm touring Europe right now and I'm very much interested in touristy things but if time permits, I love seeing what the locals do.

Before deciding on Europe, I decided that in my young life, I needed to experience the best things of life and one of those things is traveling. As a young woman, I want to meet new people who are different from me. I believe this is the only way to be a well-rounded person. Coming from America, I know many people's ideas about the world will be drastically different from mine and I think traveling and meeting new people can help me meet not just like-minded people but different-minded people too!

PHILOSOPHY

Life is about enjoyment, love, service, caring, and understanding.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have never done couchsurfing before and only heard about it from others. I hope to experience it myself so that I can do some hosting later too!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It will be my first time experiencing couchsurfing!

Interests

Movies! I love romantic comedies and foreign films and documentaries.
I play the piano and have been playing for over 15 years, but I'm just a classically trained. One of my goals is to play jazz piano.
I like playing tennis but am not that good at it. I haven't played for over 3 years now but I WILL take it up again.
I'm also trying to train for a half marathon! If you have good tips on training, please let me know! So running is one of my hobbies too.
I'm very interested in health in developing countries and I hope my travels will open my eyes to many disparities that exist in health care.

• documentaries
• marathon
• running
• movies
• traveling
• jazz
• piano
• tennis

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies I like: Two Weeks Notice, The Matrix, Man on Wire, Amelie, Life is Beautiful, Titanic, The English Patient, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Blind Side, The Sound of Music, It's a Wonderful Life, Pride & Prejudice, The Godfather, The West Side Story, The Notebook.

Books: Franny and Zooey, Jane Eyre, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Death of a Salesman, Catcher in the Rye, Ella Enchanted, Ender's Game, Lord of the Flies, Half the Sky, The Count of Monte Cristo, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice

Music: Ingrid Michaelson, Feist, Regina Spektor, Eartha Kitt, Falling Slowly (song), Black Eyed Peas, Frank Sinatra, Pink Martini, Charles Trenet, Lily Allen, Jason Mraz, Leona Lewis, Rachael Yamagata, Vampire Weekend, Priscilla Ahn

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I climbed the Great Wall and bobsledded down it!

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Mexico, South Korea

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States