CURRENT MISSION

Trying to travel more

ABOUT ME

Visiting the west coast this summer for the first time! I'll be hitting up Seattle, Portland, San Jose, L.A., San Diego, San Francisco.

PHILOSOPHY

I try to be as open minded as possible.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Currently traveling and hoping to meet some interesting people.
I absolutely love St Louis, and would be excited to show visitors around soon as I get back!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Completely new to this!

Interests

There are few things that make me happier than live music.
Aerial silks, acroyoga, Gardening (I find vegetables incredibly calming), biking (noncompetitively), cooking, camping, climbing trees, yoga, dancing.

• dancing
• swing dancing
• cooking
• yoga
• gardening
• traveling
• crochet
• knitting
• music
• live music
• cycling
• camping
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Eternal Sunshine, Pan's Labyrinth, Brazil (and basically everything else Gilliam), City of God, City of Lost Children, Totoro, Rushmore, Kill Bill, Shortbus, V for Vendetta, Wristcutters: a love story, Tekkonkinkreet

MUSIC: Andrew Bird, Devendra Banhart, Mount Eerie, Tom Waits, Regina Spektor, Gowns, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Velvet Underground, Four Tet, Laura Marling, Bon Iver, OOIOO, Black Dice, Radiohead, Ecstatic Sunshine, Pixies, Arcade Fire, Pavement, Animal Collective, múm, Beirut, Port O'Brien, Cold Specks, Flying Lotus, Yann Tiersen, Joanna Newsom, The Magnetic Fields, Feist, Deerhunter, Maps & Atlases, Wilco, M.I.A., Crystal Castles, Sam Cooke, Caribou, Megafaun, Carla Morrison, of Montreal, The Ditty Bops, Man Man, Erykah Badu, Tatsuya Nakatani, Marissa Nadler, Jessy Bulbo, Soft Circle, Matt Dill, Do Make Say Think, Sunset Rubdown, Thee Oh Sees, The Microphones

BOOKS: Chuck Palahniuk, Italo Calvino (especially Baron in the Trees!), Barbara Kingsolver, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Ender's Game, Brave New World, White Noise, Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Ames

Teach, Learn, Share

I absolutely love learning new things! Usually not for long enough to get really good at anything, though. Literally, anything you can teach, I will want to learn.
I can teach you Chinese, and a bit of Spanish. I have a little bit of experience making things like kefir, yogurt, kombucha, and bread. I just got into swing dancing, and can teach you some of the basic steps, or I'd love to learn more! I could teach you how to knit, crochet, and sew.
I'd really love to learn acroyoga and aerial silks! Also, hoopdancing.

Countries I’ve Visited

China

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States