CURRENT MISSION

learn how to save the world

ABOUT ME

I'm a countrygirl from one the many islands of Denmark. My American mother met my Danish farther on a bus trip from Denmark to India in 1978. The romantic tale of how they met is a favorite of mine to tell, one of those tales that have formed my life.

In my hippie upbringing, friends where family and everyone was always welcome. My first love was a little dark eyed boy, Alejandro, staying with his mother for a month on their way to the caves near Granada in Spain, I often wonder what he is doing with his life now.

My parents are the kind of nature hippies where they really meant it, so I grew up with homegrown meet and vegetables, a Finnish mass oven and a compost toilet. I guess it rubbed off a bit, so I started studying Natural Resources at the University of Copenhagen this September. Not the first thing I've been into trying to find my way in life - 1 year in medical school, 4 months with art-school, 8 months with graphic technician and in between lousy jobs, traveling and living trying not to care that I did not have a plan.

I have lived in Copenhagen for over 4 years now, and love my city very much, but I must admit I have a great love for the open land. I think that is where my American side kicks in -not allot of wilderness in Denmark, but lots and lots in Idaho and Washington.

PHILOSOPHY

Happy! I seek the drug of happiness. I try to smile and laugh as much as possible. I make lists of things that make me happy, compile playlist of songs that make my insides bubble, surround myself with happy funny people. It usually works quite well as a life philosophy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love to talk and laugh. -Dance!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been a member of hospitality club since 2007, but have only just joined CouchSurfing. Quite a few of my friends and family are CS hosts and travelers so I am not foreign to the concept. I actually met up with a surfer in Berlin after getting to know him while he was surfing at my friends place.

Interests

Environment, nature, traveling, learning weird details about stuff, the human body, finding the little secret spots of my city, music (as in listening, not playing unfortunately), languages, colors, the ocean (or water in most forms), insects and bugs, finding the artistic patterns in my surroundings, dressing up, theater, art.

• insects
• arts
• theater
• dancing
• environment
• yoga
• clubbing
• technology
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

I have a tendency to get very emotional when it comes to books and movies. I love to watch dramas that really change something in me, but I have a hard time actually doing it to myself because I know I will cry so much. Therefor I often opt to more happy or trivial movies or books (you know the kind you are actually embarrassed to list). But the movies that have stuck with me the past couple of years are as follows: Rachel Getting Married, Juno, Sunshine Cleaning, Drive, Winters Bone, Animal Kingdom, No Country For Old Men, United States of Leland, Into the Wild, Undskyld Jeg Forstyrrer(Danish), and more that I might think of later.

I love to read, but since I started school again I really have not had time to do it much. I am a big fan of the Harry Potter series though (actually you would probably call me a nerd) and have enjoyed my share of fantasy growing up, later I got really into the mother-daughter stories like 'Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood' and 'The Secret Life of Bees'. and the last books I really enjoyed where J. Maarten Troost's Traveling books from Kiribati, Vanuatu and Fiji, 'The Sex lives of Cannibals' and 'Getting Stoned With Savages'.

I really enjoy music, it is a big part of my life, and recently being without my i-pod for some weeks made me feel very naked. I have a very wide taste, but would probably be classified as an indi-rock kind of gal. I recently switched i-pods with a friend from school, the criteria of the game being that on the i-pod was only our ten favorite albums. It was a good way to get to know someone, but also quite hard to decide your own top ten. Here goes (not in order): Arcade Fire-The Suburbs, The Brian Jonestown Massacre-Bravery Repetition and Noise, Dead Man's Bones-Dead Man's Bones (feat. the Silverlake Conservatory of Music Children's Choir), Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros-Up From Below, mewithoutYou-Brother, Sister, The Presets-Apocalypso, Radiohead-In Rainbows, Why?-Alopecia, Death By Kite-Death By Kite, Death From Above 1979-You're a Woman, I'm a Machine.
I also love to make my own little compilations called Happy Hits, aimed at collecting all the songs that make you smile and bubble a little inside.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My parents took me out of school for a year in 1995, we traveled the west coast of North America with my younger brothers in a yellow VW-van. That year is something special in my mind and my heart. It is the best gift my parents ever gave me, and I hope to pas it on.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you basic yoga, how to produce more natural chemical happiness - you could tech me how to count to ten in your native tongue.