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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
To learn as much as I can from life while I am young and free.
ABOUT ME
I love making new friends, especially while traveling. Every moment of my travels, sweet or sour, has been exhilarating and I am always looking to share new experiences with others. I'm a friendly, adventurous girl from California, and I'd see myself as pretty laid-back and easy to talk to. My passions are dancing, cooking, writing, hiking, snowboarding and yoga. I also recently got into rock-climbing and am slowly getting better in that.
PHILOSOPHY
What we think, we become.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
As I'm currently renting a room in Paris, I cannot host at the moment, but when I return to California I will be happy to host!
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I'm a bit of a beginner, but I've used CS in Amsterdam, Grenoble, Barcelona, Dublin and Lyon so far. I've attended a few events as well, like a CS Dutch Pancake party in Paris, where I met tons of people from around the world. Every experience I've had so far has been positive and different from one place to the next. I love how much CS has enriched my travels and how pleasantly I am surprised over and over again at the kindness of strangers :) It seems like great friendships are always waiting to be formed in this community.
Interests
the outdoors, travel, hiking/backpacking, camping, salsa dancing, reading and writing (mostly fiction), cooking, snowboarding, skateboarding..trying to learn surfing!
- writing
- dancing
- salsa dancing
- cooking
- vegan
- yoga
- partying
- reading
- traveling
- eating out
- outdoor activities
- hiking
- backpacking
- camping
- surfing
- snorkeling
- snowboarding
- skateboarding
- rock climbing
Music, Movies, and Books
The Doors, Rolling Stones, Amy Winehouse, Billie Holiday, The Black Keys, James Brown, Detroit Cobras, Lou Reed/The Velvet Underground, The Breeders, Arctic Monkeys, The Clash, The Kinks, Louis Armstrong, Nirvana, Bob Marley, Nick Waterhouse, Jimi Hendrix, and many many more...
Some of my favorite books are: The Stranger by Camus, The Giver, Catcher in the Rye, Kafka On the Shore, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Invisible Man, The Pearl by Steinbeck
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
snorkeling off the coast of Vietnam in the South China Sea
Teach, Learn, Share
Cook with me! Although you may have your doubts, I am an excellent vegan cook; I love working with the freshest ingredients possible and pursuing exciting and unusual flavor combinations. I can teach you lots of English, or a bit of French. I can teach you how to salsa dance a bit if you're a girl. I can make you fall in love with the great outdoors.
Countries I’ve Visited
Netherlands, Nicaragua, United Kingdom, Viet Nam
Countries I’ve Lived In
United States