CURRENT MISSION

Experience new places and cultures with awesome locals and fellow travelers!!!

ABOUT ME

Love to laugh, enjoy each moment as much as possible, connect and learn from others. Like goofing around, contemplating, existential discussions, playing music, singing, listening to music. We also devour books, art and good food.

PHILOSOPHY

Treat others the way you want to be treated. Be true to yourself, be true to others. Live in the present. Open your mind, open your heart.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We Couchsurfed in Europe and are looking to return the favor by hosting surfers at our new place.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We've hosted and surfed and each time it has been a beautiful experience!

Interests

Music! Good music, especially ;P Good food (yum!) Good people (Hello!) We both love to read books, lately poetry and plays have been on Sophia's list. Lale has been working on her own house music tracks and reading Euripides.

• arts
• books
• poetry
• singing
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• reading
• painting
• music
• guitar
• piano
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

classical, hip hop, jazz, funk, soul, motown, the beatles (they're a genre, right???), house music, some folk, some rock.

some favorites include, parliament-funkadelic, ravel, chopin, beethoven, brahms, rachmaninoff, debussy, glass, gorillaz, 2PAC, lettuce, mahavishnu orchestra, kate bush, thelonious monk, TRIBE, bill evans, ray brown, sonny stitt, gene ammons, james jamerson, andrew bird, Snoop Dogg, erykah badu, little dragon, kaytranada, J DILLA, janelle monae, sergio mendes, led zeppelin, pink floyd, electric light orchestra, chaka khan, st. vincent, talking heads, peaches, mf doom, david bowie, antibalas, astrud gilberto, esperanza spalding, the gories, the oh sees, billie holiday, oscar peterson, bill evans, gil scott heron, earth wind and fire, the doors the list goes on, and on, and on, and on....

BOOKS! East of Eden, Tai-Pan, The dark tower series, the bhagavad gita, 1984, Lolita, Before Night Falls, William Blake, The Bluest Eye

MOVIES! almost any Tarantino and Lynch movie, beetlejuice, dead man, mean girls, american beauty, john waters films too!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sophia climbed mountains for the first time this summer in North Carolina, US. Also, seeing a Ruben's painting for the first time was life changing.

Lale was in the front row to see her favorite musicians play together at the 2013 Bonnaroo Superjam.

Teach, Learn, Share

Music (guitar, bass, piano, theory). Plants. Cooking. English. Sophia can teach you the art of haiku and how to improvise in the kitchen. Lale can introduce you to a lot of good music. We want to better our French and Spanish. We love to share ourselves, our time and our energy...and good wine!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Smiles and Laughter! Good wine and good music, and we love to make dinner for our hosts!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States