CURRENT MISSION

Love God. Love Others. Nothing else matters.

ABOUT ME

After I graduated from high school, I took a year off before going to college to do a missions trip. Our team started in Santa Cruz for 3 months doing urban missions (like working with the homeless), then we moved South of the border for 5 months to a rural little farming community called Porvenier (30 min NE of Ensenada). It was the most wonderful, challenging, and pivotal year of my life.

My life goal is to work with disabled people in any capacity available to me. Whether it is as a teacher or an art therapist, it doesn't matter. Just as long as I am surrounded by them on a daily basis. They are beautiful people.

PHILOSOPHY

I do my best to live a life that honors God. I am messy and broken and imperfect, but grace always covers my failures. Oh, and I live life to go to Disneyland. A month without a trip to Disneyland is a wasted month in my book. ;]

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am a very new member so I am not sure of all of the ways that are even available to participate in the CS project other than hosting and surfing...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I will let you know once some hospitable soul has let me sleep on his/her couch, ha, or one is willing to couchsurf here.

Interests

Painting. Drawing. Crocheting. Disabled people. Adventures. Leading high school girls at my church. Santa Cruz. Music. Bowls of Soul. Sudoku. Disneyland. Creative Driving. Sushi. Acting. Dancing. Irish Car Bombs.

• arts
• books
• acting
• dancing
• painting
• drawing
• sudoku
• music
• surfing
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Oh boy. Here we go... Current favorites-

Music: Switchfoot, Sigur Ros, Death Cab for Cutie, Passion Pit, Paper Route, Fleet Foxes, Feist, A Fine Frenzy, Jonsi, Cold War Kids, Copeland, The Format, Fun., Radiohead, Freelance Whales, Delta Spirit, The Smiths, Pixes, Journey, Styx, Mumford & Sons.

Movies: Crash, Boondock Saints, Little Miss Sunshine, The Notebook (forgive me), The Lion King, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Big Fish, Eternal Sunshine.

Books: Bible, Harry Potter Series, anyhthing by Roald Dahl, Donald Miller, or C.S. Lewis, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, Extrememly Loud and Incredibly Close, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Hamlet, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Water for Elephants.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was in Culiacan, Sinaloa Mexico on a missions trip and a girl on my team healed a deaf man by praying over his ears. One minute this man was stone deaf, the next he could hear for the first time in his life. Few things are as wonderfully unbelievable as watching a man become healed of deafness.

Teach, Learn, Share

I make a mean chicken enchilada. I am always willing to share that.

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, United States

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