CURRENT MISSION

learn... always learn!

ABOUT ME

Hello everyone! Hope you are having a beautiful day! It's hard to write about one self, but most importantly I want you to know that I am just the typical girl next door. Full of life, fun-loving, someone who appreciates honesty and someone with many hopes and dreams. I lived in Portland Oregon for seven years, first moving there as an exchange student, and then going back for college! I went back to my home country, Portugal, on October 2006 and moved to Japan in June of 2007! I have the travel bug and I love meeting new places and people! I am currently teaching English in Japan, and I see this as a great new change in my life, even though it..s never easy when we start a new life in a country where you don..t speak the language and you can't understand the signs but I am very thrilled for this opportunity and learning new things each day that passes!
I enjoy laughing and people who are funny and silly like me! I am also very social and love meeting new people. If you are fun-loving, honest, someone with a big heart who hopes to make the world a better place, then you are my friend...

PHILOSOPHY

'To better a life is to better the world'

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am still learning about this project. I am hoping to meet a lot of people through this! Mostly hosting but had a wonderful time surfing in Okinawa! :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Dahye - March 2009
Lorna - April 2009
Jimmy - April 2009
Julie and Jon - April 2009
Dave - April 2009
Midori - August 2009

Interests

I love meeting new people and hanging out with my friends. Being around people that make me laugh, I believe I have the best friends in the world and they are my main interest. Love movies, music, dancing, and traveling. And being in Japan means that yes... I love KARAOKE!

Music, Movies, and Books

Books - Da Vinci Code and Angel and Demons by Dan Brown; The Perfume, by Patrick Suskind; The Spirit catches you and you fall down, by Anne Fadiman; Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa, by Mark Mathabane

Movies - Blood Diamond, Dead Poets Society, RENT, The Sound of Music, Legends of the Fall, Seven, Braveheart, The Last Samurai, City of Angels, E.T., Lion King, the little mermaid, Ray, Hotel Rwanda, ... I love movies!!!

Music - all kinds

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Todaiji Temple! Amazingly beautiful

The Great Wall of China

Holding baby tigers and baby lions

Swimming in the mediterranean off the nothern coast of Cyprus

Move to Japan

etc, etc...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Romania, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Portugal, United States