CURRENT MISSION

Love to learn. Learn to love. Experience every moment.

PHILOSOPHY

I am a junkie for new experiences, new people, new places, or better yet experiencing the "same-old-thing" in a completely unique or different way. I believe that "small-talk" isn't small talk at all. That is, I simply don't do it until I actually care to know. I love people...but people that are true, real, and passionate. I like to take the time to really appreciate a moment, a thought, a person, etc. If you have something to say, say it. If you want to do a cartwheel, do it. If you want to laugh, don't hold back just because you are in a silent lecture hall ( I get stares all the time). If you feel something, allow yourself to be completely absorbed by it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just found couchsurfing on-line. I have never found a community that really had the potential to embody the type of person I am: open-minded, free-spirited, honest, curious and experiential. I am excited to meet other couch-surfers and learn more about the project.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Excited to be able to fill this in.

Interests

I enjoy: blue food, awkward moments, finding things in unexpected places, smiles, chocolate, independent and foreign films, hanging out with my family and friends, appreciating something for the first time, nature, spontaneity, skinny dipping (especially at night), fishing, dancing, drizzle, how a person smells behind their ear, singing in the car, going commando, running, asking questions, meditating, honesty, quilting, journaling, writing things that no one will ever read, reading things that no one else will ever read, learning something new, pastels, photography, laughing and making people laugh...
guilty pleasure #1=country music.
Guilty pleasure #2=listening to the conversations of complete strangers.

• writing
• singing
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• chocolate
• running
• movies
• reading
• music
• country music
• fishing

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Geek Love, Peace is Every Step, No Longer Human, Demons, The Alchemist, Neruda, and Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman"

Music:
David Gray, David Bowie, Interpol, Doves, Elliot Smith, strokes, We Are scientists, Keane, Muse, Radiohead, Philip Glass, Chris O'Riley, Chris Cornell, (young) Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Etta James, Frank Sinatra, the Killers, Neko Case, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Damien Rice, Ray Lamontagne, Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, Los Van Van, Oscar Lopez, The Kooks

Movies:
BBC Series of Pride and Prejudice (all 6.5 hours in a row), City of God, Office Space

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was a caregiver for my grandmother the year I took off between college and medical school. She is my heart.

Teach, Learn, Share

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
-Marcel Proust

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Cuba, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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