CURRENT MISSION

studying nursing and not much else right now

ABOUT ME

I'm studying nursing at the University of Pittsburgh second Bachelors degree program. My favorite thing is working as a birth doula helping babies join us in this wide wonderful world in the most gentle, happy way possible. I hope to be a labor and delivery nurse and eventually become a midwife.

PHILOSOPHY

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meaness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whomever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Live simply so that others may simply live.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Potlucks and hanging out with newbies to the city. Hosting people occasionally and surfing when I can get away from work.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted a handful of really cool surfers in the past year. I have also couch surfed in New Orleans, LA, Rochester, NY, Columbus, OH, and Philadelphia, PA. I have also used Hospitality Club to stay and meet with people in Egypt, Morocco, Switzerland, Chicago, and New York City. I have only had positive experiences and I always felt safe and welcome with everyone I stayed with.

兴趣

learning languages, dancing (Middle Eastern and Indian dances particularly), human rights, health, bicycling, reading, birth, crocheting, henna art, HIV/AIDS education, carpet making, signed languages, social justice, plant-based diets, yurt, living off the grid.

• arts
• dancing
• education
• human rights
• clubbing
• reading
• surfing
• teaching
• languages
• nursing
• tourism

音乐、电影和书籍

I watch maybe a dozen movies a year (mostly foreign films), listen to a lot of folk, blues, Indian, Arab, African and other international folk and pop music, I try to read something not related to work or school when I can, but recently read A Midwife's Tale that I recieved from a lovely CS guest actually and The Life of Milarepa (a 12th century Buddha).

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Darwaza the giant burning pit of hell, real-life dictatorship and 52 turtles in one afternoon in Turkmenistan were all pretty strange things to experience.

教，学，和分享

Everyone and everything is a teacher.

我游览过的国家

Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

Egypt, India, Turkmenistan, United States