CURRENT MISSION

Continue my spontaneous trip through South America!

ABOUT ME

I studied International Relations, pushing me to explore the world but shy away from politics. I am passionate about travel and athletics and love seeing new places. I am a fun-loving and silly person who never wants to impose on anyone and is always up for an adventure.

PHILOSOPHY

I like to laugh and do it often. Usually I am laughing at myself.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Currently I want to surf and stay with people around South America, traveling in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru, and then to host friends I´ve made and new friends wherever I live when I return to the USA in July.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've stayed with lots of friends and acquaintances around the world in my travels, sleeping just about anywhere and never making a peep when the time calls for it. I'm very flexible, but I love to laugh and meet new people and try new things, so this is an extension of that. I´ve surfed in the UK and Spain so far.

Interests

Sports, Competitions, Olympics, Running, Reading, Exploring, Cooking, Eating, Seeing everything a place has to offer, meeting new people and seeing places I've never been before

• culture
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• baking
• running
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• knitting
• kayaking
• skydiving
• sports
• olympics
• swimming
• international relations
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Book - Love in the Time of Cholera
Favorite Movies - Jurassic Park, Hook, Elf, Hocus Pocus, The Debt

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveling in Burma/Myanmar was the most fascinating and best experience in travel I have ever had. It is such a different place with a unique and amazing culture, full of wonderful people. Seeing the coming-of-age ceremony of young boys in a small town I passed through and eating tea salad in Yangon, a food I have only seen made by Burmese people anywhere in the world. Another great experience in Japan when I participated in the Nebuta festival when I was 13, it sparked my desire to travel and to do the most typical, local things and not the things that tourists tend to do.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach - English, Spanish, swimming, cooking/baking, knitting
Learn - skydiving, whitewater kayaking, other languages, more cooking, about wine, how to brew beer and how to drive a manual car (I blame the USA for this one)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Spain, United States