CURRENT MISSION

to fall in love with the journey

ABOUT ME

I've been out living in the desert in Senegal for about one 1/2 years, as an Evironmental Education Extension Agent. Come visit my hut and I'll tell you what that means.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe that people are equal halves kindness and selfishness, I believe in the words "inchallah", soul mates, the power of peanut butter, bob dylan lyrics, that there are many types of poverty, experience is a greater gift than knowledge, that books change lives, the hidden potentail of every female, siezing the day...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

you can use my stick bed and mosquitoe net whenever you want, and I'll get my village mom to cook us bomb-ass cheub

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none, but excited to start

Interests

running, swimming, surfing climbing, "extreme biking", reading, journalling, painting, smiling

• books
• education
• cooking
• running
• reading
• painting
• cycling
• surfing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: God of Small Things, Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies, East of Eden, The Bell Jar, Life of Pi, House of Spirits, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Biography of the Dahli Lama, Interpreter of Maladies, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Kafka on the Shore, The Fountainhead, anything by Roald Dahl or George Orwell
Music:David Gray, Ben Harper, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, Cake, Ben Folds, TOOL, Onelinedrawing, Counting Crows, The Flaming Lips, The Streets, Sufjan, Regina Spektor, Damien Rice, Joss Stone, Marley, Sublime, Phish, Pearl Jam, Decemberists, Matisyahu, Sigur Rós, The Stills, U2, Bright Eyes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Broken Social Scene, Tegan and Sara, Nirvana, The White Stripes
Movies: Shawshank Redemption, Braveheart, Office Space, Dancer in the Dark, The Spanish Apartment, You Me and Everyone We Know

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked the Inca Trail, done a lot of illegal border crossings...

Teach, Learn, Share

A pound of armadillo meat contains 780 calories. Most armadillos seen dead on the road did not get hit by the wheels. When an armadillo is frightened it jumps straight into the air. Armadillos have four babies at a time, always all the same sex. They are perfect quadruplets, the fertilized cell split into quarters, resulting in four identical armadillos. Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day. Armadillos can walk underwater.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Peru, Sierra Leone, Switzerland, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Senegal, Zimbabwe