CURRENT MISSION

Take risks!

ABOUT ME

What to say...?
I consider myself to be a sincere person who's open to new challenges, ideas, and people! I'm very close with my family, but I love to travel, so it's hard to reconcile my itch for adventure and my need to spend time with the people I care about.
I love languages and am an aspiring translator/interpreter.
I stubbornly wear flip-flops year-round (it's the California girl in me), even in bad weather.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I attend our monthly meetings in La Plata, and have been fortunate enough to go to a number of events hosted by the local CouchSurfing community. I taught salsa and bachata at one of our dance nights and currently host English movie nights and weekly Speak English! classes for CouchSurfers in Argentina.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was introduced to CouchSurfing when I received a fellowship to teach and work in La Plata. The girl who I was replacing suggested I meet up with some CouchSurfers who had really made her experience in Argentina wonderful, and so I accepted a couple of offers and went to dinners, drank maté, and surfed with a number of them until I found an apartment to live in. Things just sort of snowballed from there- CouchSurfers introduced me to other CouchSurfers, all of whom have been welcoming, open-minded people who were more than willing to share their time, their food, and even their homes with me! I love the idea of having a community of people open and willing to embrace you wherever you go, especially because I love to travel. Hopefully when I get back to the States I can return the favor!

Interests

travel! salsa dancing, learning new languages, translation, rainy days, rainy nights, good food, bad reality television, teaching, blasting music in the car, ice hockey, wine, swimming, tequila, candy

• dancing
• salsa dancing
• bachata
• dining
• wine
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• hockey
• swimming
• teaching
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: About a Boy, Amores Perros, Fargo, Amélie, Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, The Great Escape, (almost) anything by Pixar

Books: Disgrace, The Umbrella Man and Other Stories, 1984, short stories by Kafka, Bradbury, Cortázar

TV (I watch more TV than movies anyway): Breaking Bad! The Office, Modern Family, Scrubs, So You Think You Can Dance

Music: Atmosphere, The Shins, Calle 13, Bersuit, Muse

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach: English (and all of its lovely grammar- I've been a teacher for four years), salsa dancing, Spanish

Want to learn: Portuguese! hip-hop dance, how to draw better than a five-year-old

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Chile, Spain, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Costa Rica, United States

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