CURRENT MISSION

Attain a Social Impact MBA Degree and re-enter the workforce in project management at a mission driven organization.

ABOUT ME

Fun-loving, spontaneous, with a gypsy soul! Elon University Alum, Returned Peace Corps Paraguay Volunteer, Social Work Professional. I love good conversation and good beer/glass of wine. Always love to meet new people and make contacts anywhere and everywhere.

PHILOSOPHY

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
- Kurt Vonnegut

"The mind is everything: what you think, you become."

"If you want to make an omelette, you gotta break some eggs." - Fight Club

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
-Pericles

"Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
-The Shawshank Redemption

"Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the from way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."
- The Lion King

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have mostly done surfing myself, have not been able to live in a place where I could host surfers just yet! Once I attain my MBA I hope to become a host myself and return all of the kind favors/karma that this community has provided me with.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i am a firm believer in karma, and will treat you even better than i would want to be treated! i have had painting/drawing/sculpting education and would love to share my soul with you through my words, experience, and artwork!

Interests

• arts
• education
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• exercise
• running
• athlete
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• outdoor activities
• surfing
• buddhist
• soccer
• rugby
• teaching
• medicine
• science
• volunteering
• organic gardening

Music, Movies, and Books

Author of Choice: Kurt Vonnegut. Also - Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson

Jams: Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, CCR, Bob Dylan, any and all Motown artists, State Radio, Dispatch, Slightly Stoopid, Kali Uchis, The Avett Brothers, G. Love and the Special Sauce, Dawes, A Tribe Called Quest, Outkast, TLC, Beyonce, Major Lazer, Vulfpeck, Charles Bradley, Tame Impala, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Lake Street Dive

Films: The Lion King, Any Wes Anderson films, Shawshank Redemption, Gangs of New York, Fight Club, Snatch, That Thing You Do, Pan's Labyrinth, Big Fish, No Country For Old Men, Django, Inglorious Basterds, Kill Bill, Dead Poets Society, Billy Madison, The Prestige, Requiem for a Dream, Office Space, Space Jam, The Big Lebowski, Donnie Darko, Dope

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in Paraguay for the Peace Corps as a Community Health Volunteer for over two years!

Teach, Learn, Share

I was an exercise science major and a public health minor - so I got your health on lock down. I've also practiced some acupuncture and hope to pursue Eastern and Alternative Medicine full time in the future! I've got art skills and would love to paint or draw you something. I'm a decent athlete, always down to be a part of anything active! I am fluent in Spanish and Paraguayan native language Guarani. I have picked up some tricks of the trade in organic farming through my Peace Corps experience and WWOOFing, and am delighted to apply this knowledge whenever I can.

Would love to learn more about your passion! It is my greatest pleasure to witness people succeed at what they know in their soul they were meant to do.

I have a profound interest in and would love to learn more about Eastern Medicine, Zen Buddhism, excellent cooking, beers... anything interesting you have to offer! I love to learn.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Paraguay, United States