CURRENT MISSION

Find some reason to not go home.

ABOUT ME

Nerd-extraordinaire!

A little bit of shy, alotta bit of silly.

Completely obsessed with dancing.

Flexible, easy going, dorky, accepting, seriously accident-prone, and cute to a fault, I try really hard to stay up past my bedtime, although after about 11 pm it becomes really hard to form coherent sentences- which is really, really funny.

Other Languages:
Pig-Latin (Expert)
Pirate (Intermediate)
Gibberish (Beginner)

PHILOSOPHY

The Truth is Out There

F is for friends who do stuff together,
U is for you and me!
N is for anywhere and anytime at all,
Down here in the deep blue sea!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm taking a break for awhile to concentrate on studying, but as soon as I have a real apartment again, I'll host again! My goal is to make all my couchsurfers go swing dancing....be prepared!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've surfed couches in quite a few places in Europe so far, and it's been great! I love meeting new people!

I've surfed with:

Alexis (Lyon- Oct. '08)
François (Bordeaux- Oct. '08)
Dimitri (Toulouse- Oct. '08)
Vincent (Toulouse- Oct. '08)
Vanessa (Montpellier- Nov. '08)
Van (Lyon- Dec. '08)
Grigoris (Lesvos, Greece- Feb. '09)
Vitaly (South Queensferry, Scotland, April '09)
Isaac (Dublin, Ireland, April '09)

I've hosted:

Vitaly (from Latvia- Oct. '09)
Alex and Lorin (from France- Nov. '09)
Alex (from France- Jan. '10)
Tam and Xenia (from CA- Jan '10)
Britt (from TX- Jan '10)

Interests

Swing Dance Extraordinaire: Lindy hop, Blues, Balboa, Charleston, East Coast, Jitterbug, West Coast, Fusion

Ballroom Dancing Addict: Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, Vienese Waltz, Quickstep, Cha-cha, Rumba, Jive/Swing, Salsa/Mambo, Samba (International and American styles for everything)

Other random dances I do: Argentine, Hustle, Polka

(I dance, I teach, I compete, I make stuff up)

I also like napping, puddle jumping, playing the cello, polar bears, playgrounds, the color green, chocolate, daydreaming, legos, Stabilo swing cool highlighters, and being generally ridiculous.

• singing
• coloring
• dancing
• tango
• waltz
• polka
• swing dancing
• ballroom dancing
• chocolate
• piano
• blues
• teaching
• languages
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Total TV addict: X-Files, Buffy, Angel, Supernatural, Veronica Mars, 24, Heros, Greys Anatomy, Terminator, Flight of the Conchords

Movies: Chick Flicks with happy endings, Mysteries, Comedy, Sci Fi, Disney, Musicals.

Not limited to: The X-Files Movies, Clue, 10 Things I Hate about You, Moulin Rouge, Back to the Future, The Last Unicorn, MI, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, les Parapluies de Cherbourg, James Bond (Pierce Brosnan), The Princess Bride, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Baz Luhrmann, Steve Allen's 1985 version of Alice in Wonderland.

Music: A little bit of everything (not limited to Pop, Classical, Alternative, Oldies, really old Oldies, eveything Disney, ballroom music, and anything in Rock Band)

For Example... Cocoon, Jason Mraz, Miley Cyrus, Backstreet Boys, N*Sync, Spice Girls, Counting Crows, Everclear, Goo Goo Dolls, a little bit of Yann Tiersen, Coldplay, Avril Lavigne, Jars of Clay, the Beatles, 2gether, Simon and Garfunkl, Camille Saint-Saens "the swan", Death Cab for Cutie, The Garden State Soundtrack, the occasional Metallica song, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and the Fishy Fishy Water Dance.

I'm a sucker for a sappy love song, poignant lyrics, and a good cellist

Books: Flatterland, for the mathematical hilarity of it all, Wuthering Heights, for the tragic love story, Le Petit Prince, for the sheep, all of Lewis Carroll, for the Jabberwocky, Jane Austen, for the hopeless romantic that I am

I love reading- Please send me a message with book recommendations! (esp. if the book is in French!)

I think video games should be a category too, so I declare it to be so.

Video games: Zelda! Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Super Mario Brothers, Mario Kart 64, Pokemon, Dr. Mario, Myst, Mortal Kombat (SNES), The Sims (for the decorating), Roller Coaster Tycoon, Lighthouse, Caesars 3, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Mario Party, the occasional shoot-em-up, especially if involves crushing people with a tank.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I visited Vienna during Christmas time, and one night, when no one was looking, I Viennesse waltzed down the street...shh don't tell.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: I can teach you ballroom/latin/swing dancing! (especially if you have 3 left feet- I love teaching, please ask me! And if you're coming to stay with me, I will make you dance at least once.)

At home, I'm a professional organizer, I can teach you to be organized! (I can also do a mean resume critique based on a few years as a career counselor)

Learn: I love excuses to practice my French.

I would also like to learn about the metric system (what does one kilometer feel like?), the constellations (I like starring aimlessly at the night sky), french slang, and how to play more than chopsticks on the piano. Really, just teach me. Even better, teach me, and then give me homework. I love homework.

When I grow up, I want to be a magician, an archeologist who solves some ancient mystery, a circus performer, a fairy princess, a detective like Sherlock Holmes, and a pirate captain. But the nice kind of pirate, who only makes you walk the plank into non-jellyfish and shark infested waters. And then I want to be a teacher, so I can give my students homework, mwhahaha!!!

Share: I like sharing! I learned all about it on Sesame Street, and I can sing the song about sharing for you if you like. It's about cookies and milk, and how if you have milk, and I have cookies, and how if you share, then you have milk and cookies! But if it's a chocolate chip cookie, I might not share, and you might just have to get your own. Sesame Street didn't give me enough homework, so I didn't learn terribly well.

Countries I’ve Visited

France

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States

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