CURRENT MISSION

To get ready to speak a lot of Spanish

ABOUT ME

i'm an american shitstick, born in hawaii, grew up in the south, and now living in the northwest..

..where i go to college, which i don't really like, but the town of olympia is a really unique and amazing place, and i have some lovely friends. and i'm getting paid to go.

i'm a scorpio/aries/libra for you astrology kids, which i can be, even though i am skeptical in believing in anything, but it is a nice thing to fill the void of not believing in a monotheistic god

i am forever the bearer of the scales, and it's to my benefit and to my bane that i see many sides to everything and am hard-pressed to make decisions without really looking. or trying to. that being said, i have some convictions i live by. like being accountable to people. and treating the world with respect, if i can. right now, i'm in sort of a transitional period in my life in which i'm reevaluating myself, my environment and my beliefs.

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in general, i am easy to talk to and hard to get to know. i love meeting people, i love to conversate and i love people's quirks. i am a night creature.

i love going out to parties and events. i am a lush, and i love to indulge. i care about collective liberation, people, nature, and i grasp ideas like gems.

i'm being all serious, but that's only some of my personality. mostly i'm really fun loving.

PHILOSOPHY

i don't see any higher purpose, but i'm not a nihilist. i fill the void of god with my own mysticism and a little emptiness.

i think we are accountable to each other as people who are sharing a planet. i think that all the destruction that goes on is disgusting, but i also wonder why it doesn't happen more. i wonder if war is a natural force in life, yet still i am against it.

i think that our predecessors have created a world that's pretty fucked up. i try and do my part by helping strengthen my community and friends, and i appreciate communities that live by values that are their own and not given to us, in whatever forms they manifest. i don't blame anyone, because we've all been through a lot and the way things are it's hard to care or be able to do.

my life is half serious half goofy, and i am a cyclical creature, like the phoenix. 'm always striving for inner and outer truths, and i don't think i've ever really know, but i'm into the experience.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i've hosted a lot of friends, acquaintances, and friends of friends at my houses before, but never from the site! on the other hand, i've been hosted before with awesome experiences.

Interests

static!, ideas, eccentricities, living purposefully, living aimlessly, mania, conversations, safe spaces, culture, loving my friends, queer theory, anti-racism work, the idea of adventure, daydreaming, dancing like a fool, plants! like kudzu, kava kava, skullcap, usnea, magnolia trees, herbalism, tea, trying to love myself a healthy amount, fantasy novels, polyglots, religious symbolism, creating unique spiritualities, radical feminism, pretty sounds, divabutch, getting fancy, my mom's italian cooking, creating alternative cultures, d.i.y., radical theory and movement, homopunk, making better worlds, time/space, cheap beer

• culture
• literature
• dancing
• environment
• womens rights
• cooking
• beer
• partying
• socializing

Music, Movies, and Books

music is me. i love samba and other brazilian music, underground and mainstream hip-hop, country and roots, jazz and soul, syphonies, punk and hardcore, etc.

i'm a big fan of music that is produced outside of the mainstream, and am lucky to live in a place that has a large d.i.y. music scene.

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as for movies, eh, i like 'em but i'm not a movie fanatic. i, however, am crazy about most every pedro almodóvar movie i've ever seen (especially todo sobre mi madre), and also love movies such as: the 400 blows, buñuel, my own private idaho, ma vie en rose, xxy, battle royale, disney, mean girls, etc.

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i like books. for the past while, all i've been reading is sci-fi and fantasy. this summer i read the animorphs trilogy, and i just got done rereading the his dark materials trilogy. in the genre, i also am a huge fan of susanna clarke's jonathan strange and mr. norrell and harry potter.

i love theatre and reading plays. some of my favorite plays include huis clos/no exit, the history boys, and la cantatrice chauve/the bald soprano. i think beckett and oscar wilde are great too. i also like newer, more experimental stuff.

my favorite books i ever read might be luis de bernières' south american trilogy, even though i've only read two of them.

nowadays, unfortunately, i'm busy a lot and mostly read french stuff for my class. which is fun.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

gah!

Teach, Learn, Share

i love to learn things from people, especially because i learn really well from being shown.

i've got some tricks up my sleeve as far as knowledge goes. nothing special, but if someone brings up a subject i know i might share a tidbit.

i know things about language/linguistics, culture, literature, gender and queer stuff. and lots of other stuff i bet!

and i love having conversations!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Mexico, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Guam, United States