I live in a big ol' farmhouse in rural Maine with my partner, rabbit, dog, ducks, chickens, geese, and 5 other lovely humans. Before this I lived in Downeast Maine, and before that I lived in Oaxaca, Mexico for 2 years, and before that spent a year in Honduras&Guatemala, and before that was in Burlington, VT for 6 years, and spent the 18 years before that growing up in southern Maine. I always knew I'd end up back here, but it was still a difficult choice to leave Mexico. Oaxaca shall own a chunk of my heart for the rest of my days!

Fortunately, I found a job that gives me the opportunity to work with lots of people from Central America and Mexico and continue speaking Spanish on an almost daily basis. I'm a Community Health Worker with a mobile health program that helps migrant & seasonal farmworkers access health services.

There is more to me than that, but there is only so much time I actually feel like spending on talking about myself.

M vle aprann ak pale kreyol ayisyen!

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Vivo en una casa grande en un pueblo rural de Maine (el estado maaas noreste de los EE.UU, comparte frontera con Canadá y el Oceano Atlántico) con mi pareja, un conejo, un perro, gallinas, patos, gansos y 5 otros seres humanos. Antes de mudarme acá estuve un tiempo en la costa de Maine, y antes de eso viví unos años en Oaxaca, Mexico, y antes de eso un año en Honduras/Guatemala, y antes de eso 6 años en Vermont, yyyy durante los 18 años previos crecí cerca de Portland, Maine (no Oregon). Aunque siempre tenía la intención de volver a vivir en Maine, me costó mucho la decisión de dejar irme de México. Oaxaca seguirá siendo dueño de un pedacito de mi corazón para siempre!

Lo bueno es que aquí encontré un trabajo que me da la buena fortuna de trabajar con mucha gente de Centroamérica y de México y de hablar en español casi todos los días. Soy promotora de salud con un programa móvil de salud que ayuda a facilitar el acceso a servicios de salud para trabajadores agrícolas y migrantes.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Hooray for humans, and couchsurfing is a nice way to find nice humans who also like meeting and sharing things with other people.

Interests

FOOD (eating it, growing it, cooking it, preserving it, food systems), MUSIC (listening to it, watching it live, playing it, dancing to it), sustainable living, social/economic/ecological justice (and related activism, though I'm not terribly active in that realm these days), son jarocho, salsa, figuring out what I want to spend my time doing, meeting people, bikes, reading, corny jokes, being outside, speaking Spanish, wandering around and exploring, learning about new things.
Making pottery is an addiction that recently came back into my life!

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Todo lo que tiene que ver con la comida/alimentación (cultivar, cocinar, comer, la justicia alimentaria...) y con la música (escuchar bailar tocar cantar); son jarocho; bailar salsa; la vida sustentable; el activismo y la justicia social/económico/ecológico; conocer a la gente; andar en y trabajar con bicis; explorar; hablar español; aprender cosas nuevas!

Y últimamente me acordé que soy adicta al hacer alfarería.

• dancing
• cumbia
• dining
• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Son jarocho, international pop & garage rock from the 1960s; crackly old Delta Blues; The Kinks, Radiohead, The Velvet Underground, Bjork, Beirut, Billie Holiday, Sigur Ros, Animal Collective, Women, Fugazi, Q and Not U, Instituto Mexicano del Sonido, LCD Soundsystem, and Broken Social Scene are among artists I listen to a lot.

Movies: I like but don't watch that often.

Books: What is the What, Everything is Illuminated, The God of Small Things, The Alchemist, 1984, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The World Without Us, Frankenstein

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seeing clouds of monarch butterflies waking up and stretch their wings as they prepare to migrate north was pretty nifty

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm on a lifelong quest to learn to live more simply and be more self-sufficent. And to learn as much about cooking as possible. And to learn to play more music.
I can share with you Spanish! And maybe you can share with me Haitian Creole?
English, and baked goods.

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Una meta que tengo en mi vida es siempre aprender a vivir en una manera más sencilla y ser más autosuficiente. Y aprender a cocinar nuevos platos ricos. Y música!
Comparto contigo conversaciones en inglés o español, y postres.
Estoy aprendiendo el criollo haitiano, por si lo hables

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Ireland, Nicaragua, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Honduras, Mexico, United States

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