Hi, I am Mariam! I am the place where the ground meets the sky! I am so happy you stumble upon my profile.

*Sorry, this acc profile hasn't been updated in a long while. So, please shoot me questions if you have any. I love mail and would love to connect and clear the air about myself :)) *

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I believe you can pretty much go anywhere when sharing a moment of existence with others. You can explore the world merely by getting to know more people. A new city, a new country, a new town-- only comes more alive purely by the people who are living in it and breathing in it everyday. People are the reason for everything and I love love love love love connecting with humans. I want to explore as many life's and connect with as many people in this life time as I can (and save money).
All of us are walking around w/ these strange, uniquely different and beautiful stories(A person w/o a story doesn’t exist) that I am just dying to hear. I just wanna dive myself into what these people are holding in their minds. Everyone out here, us, the people who are reading this, the people who will be reading this tomorrow. All have their stories, stories that billions other people didn’t even know existed. And all of us are experiencing today in a completely different way to each other. But like all of us we have memories, we have relationships, we fall in love, we fall apart, we have faults and we have miracles. We are all living, we are all breathing. We all have these incredible miraculous lives that everyone else wants to hear about and be comforted by. I just wanna learn what makes us all human.

Interests

• arts
• books
• coffee
• vegan
• movies
• music
• hiking
• camping
• rock climbing
• filmmaking
• meeting people
• documentary
• bike riding
• exploring
• comedy
• roller skating
• humans
• getting lost
• sharing stories
• coffee shops
• documentary photography
• ashtanga yoga
• peoplewatching
• getting to know people

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: https://open.spotify.com/user/msrism
Movies: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0gEk-DNgsEZ-vNZz3R9XbL395XioHNUC
Books: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/43306646-mariam?utf8=%E2%9C%93&shelf=favorites&sort=date_added&order=d

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being alive. I think being alive is pretty amazing and I've been doing it every single day for 19 years. How wonderful is that :)

Teach, Learn, Share

I've grown with incredible love and respect for humans and work each day with the ultimate goal of collecting the stories of unsuspecting miraculous people by documenting various cultures, experiences and there unique elements while simultaneously listening and sharing. I do this because connection is what makes us human. I hope to come back from wherever I journey of to with many stories to show and tell my friends and family. I want them to meet the beautiful people of the world and document and capture their beauty through my art. I want to become more aware of the people who have been alive this whole time and I had no idea even existed. All I want to learn is what makes you, you? and hopefully you can teach me that. As I'll do the same.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am also happy and willing take some pictures of you (free of charge). I was also a barista at a Denver coffee shop so I will hook you up w/ dat good good coffee all the time ;) (Also, work at a local bookstore.... so free books, because i got TONS!).

I think I am already in love with places i've never been to, and people i've never met... So I think its about time we start sharing a moment(s) of existence.

Countries I’ve Visited

Somalia, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Somalia, United Kingdom, United States