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Overview

  • 3 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Dutch, Spanish
  • 45, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • right now, I am seeking my destiny, purpose, and path thr...
  • University
  • From Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Discovering the mystery, soul, beauty and art in all things.

ABOUT ME

Curious

PHILOSOPHY

¨And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.¨
---KIERKEGAARD

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

The world is not a cold place, but one full of love and beauty if WE make it that way, by living a life of servitude and generosity and trust.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

WOW! What a way to see a place, to become acquainted with a culture through the people who live and breathe the local air!

Interests

Cooking, running, ultimate frisbee, fruit and vegetable markets, biking, hiking, eating, travelling, avocados, reading, good wine, sunsets, the colour blue, Surrealism, el mate, apple trees, blue jeans, smiles.

  • arts
  • culture
  • beauty
  • cooking
  • wine
  • running
  • reading
  • traveling
  • cycling
  • hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
La Lengua de la Mariposa, Vitus, Y Tu Mamá También, Azul Oscuro Casi Negro, The Red Violin, Breaking the Waves, anything by Woody Allen

Music:
reggae, bachata, classical, hip hop, fusions of all kinds, tango, anything with a cowbell, accordian or harmonica, Manu Chao, Amadou & Miriam, Thievery Corporation, Bobby Marley

Books-Authors-Poets:
Eduardo Galeano, ¨En Paz¨ by Amado Nervo, Mario Benedetti, Michael Ondaatje, ¨The Subterraneans¨ by Jack Kerouac, ¨The Rum Diary¨ By Hunter S. Thompson, Pablo Neruda

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I walked the Camino de Santiago in the north of Spain!

Countries I’ve Visited

Chile, France, Germany, Lebanon, South Africa, Syrian Arab Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Netherlands, Spain

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