CURRENT MISSION

To meet people and make friends wherever I go

ABOUT ME

Hi!

My name is Laila! I am from Seattle originally. Spent a year in Tanzania and a few months after that in Europe. I can't say enough great things about Couch Surfing. I live in eastern North Carolina now, and am in General Surgery residency at East Carolina University. Looking forward to meeting new people during my travels and while hosting!

PHILOSOPHY

Do it anyway.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Started as a surfer through Europe, and hopefully hosting when I get back to Greenville.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A few of my friends in college were CS members, and I had so much fun meeting the people they hosted. My first time hiking to the Hollywood sign (after 3 years of living in LA) was with new CS friends!

Interests

Music: playing(violin and viola) and listening, medicine, traveling, cooking, baking, reading, hiking and the outdoors, meeting people, African history, Tanzanian culture

• culture
• cooking
• baking
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• violin
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• history
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Popular: Anything from the 1960s, esp Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash, the Carter family

Classical: 3B's(Bach, Beethoven, Brahms), Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert, Chopin, Saint-Saens, Faure, Ravel...the list goes on...

Books: Slaughterhouse Five, 1984 and anything else by Orwell, anything by Salinger and Hemmingway, and good nonfiction. Currently reading Kafka.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Met Paul Farmer. If you know who he is, I already like you.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Honduras, Iran, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Tanzania