CURRENT MISSION

keep on finding more people and things that make me happy and have an awsome time in the US in spring 2007

ABOUT ME

early 30's, married, vegetarians, mixed-media, dollmaker, avid reader, film lover, feline servants, special effects maker, travelers, smoke-free, drug-free, cocktail mixers, punk in a coma, couch-activist, spiritually undetermined, an atheist, sleeprs, urban-dwellers, past and future student, post zionist, self-employed, corporate slave.

PHILOSOPHY

It's such a trip just to survive

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Networking's fun. It has always been, even before the internet.
Surfed on people's beds, floors and couches on my travels to Europe and the US and made some fun friends along the way. Had always hosted relatives, pen-pals and passersby, both as a married woman and as a teenager at my parents' house in suburbia.
We just came back from two and a half months in North America and did some couchsurfing there. Couch is available again, but call ahead to make sure that we're not in some sort of a limbo.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Stayed with Rachel Fish and Nick, Fort Wingate, NM
with Mandy Horan, Las Vegas, NV
with Kellyn Gross, Eugene, OR (and later with her parents in Thompson Falls, MT!)
with Cathig in Seattle, WA
with Julie and Martin in Montreal, QC, Canada
thank you all!
People who overcame their fear and learned to love (or at least deal with) Yossi the cat are
Josh from Huston, TX
Izabella and Drew from Budapest, Hungary

Interests

(mail, collaborative and other sorts of) art, reading (mostly fiction, some biographies, essays, cultural criticism are ok too), watching movies, post production, eating good food, traveling

• cats
• fish
• arts
• books
• dining
• cocktails
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• fishing
• atheism
• communications

Music, Movies, and Books

too many to mention.
Books: Keren likes Halldor Laxness' The Atom Station; Ya'akov Shabtai; Raymond Carver; Paul Auster; Irvine Welsh; Ian McEwan; Toni Morrison; punk literature (Al Burian, Evil Twin Publication, Cometbus, Michael Muhammad Knight etc.); Finnish Literature.
Gal - LOTR, Stevenson, Doyle
Movies: Keren - Apocalypse Now, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Transpotting, This is Spinal Tap...
Gal - Star Wars Trilogy, Indiana Jones Trilogy, The Godfather I,II. Lucas, Kubrik, Hitchcock, Coppola, spaghetti westerns - to name a few.
Music: Gal and Keren - Motorhead; Black Sabbath; Johnny Cash
Keren - The Young Gods; Tuxedomoon; Nomeansno; Neubauten; Turbonegro; old country; old hardcore/punk
Gal - Anthrax, Slayer, Metallica, Death, Pantera

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

hitchiked in the US and in Europe - even the creepy rides are amusing enough to tell; survived 3-4 suicide bombings on busses (but who's counting?); found the perfect bureka (drop a line if you're going to Jerusalem and I'll share the love); became a mother of two cats.

Teach, Learn, Share

I make art. I trade art. I have albums filled with ATC's (which are artist trading cards) and postoids. I have art dolls and handmade toys on the walls and shelves and drawers, mini books and altered books in the cupboards and collages and photos on the walls. My work can be found in collections practically all over the place, from Fiji to Lebanon. I love giving art and receiving art (mostly of the miniature kind, for postage matters) and almost always ready to trade.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, United Kingdom