CURRENT MISSION

Eating as much produce from roadside farmstands as possible.

ABOUT ME

I live with 4 of my close friends in an 3-story Victorian house in picturesque Lambertville, NJ. We love to cook and eat together, and I tend to do a lot of the cooking, which i love. I have a boyfriend who is the funniest, smartest, sweetest, guy I know. I work as a GIS Specialist for a navigation software company, which basically means I'm the person who makes sure that your GPS doesn't make you drive into a lake.
I am an energetic, accepting, and generous person. I can be sarcastic and if I make fun of you it's because I like you. I try to find humor in unfortunate or awkward situations.

PHILOSOPHY

Do what makes you happy and the rest will fall into place.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My house is a bit full at the moment, so I am unable to host but I am definitely game to show people around Lambertville if they are passing through. It would be nice to get together with some local surfers as well. I am also looking for Danish conversation partners. Kan vi taler dansk sammen?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed in Berlin, Budapest, Croatia, Denmark, Iceland, Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw. All of them very positive experiences! I've organized a run around the lakes in Copenhagen and shown travelers around there as well. I attended a CS dinner and pub crawl in Berlin and I was totally impressed by the Berlin CS community and I think they set a great example for other cities to follow. They were super organized, energetic and friendly. I've also gone on some daytrips in Iceland with some wonderful folks.

Interests

I love to travel and I take great pleasure in finding incredible free/cheap things to do. I read a lot and I actually miss university. I am interested in human/cultural geography as well as GIS/geotechnology. I also try to be very physically active and I enjoy gymnastics, pilates, yoga, running, squash and weight lifting. I am a vegetarian and I like cooking and eating. I am always down to learn how to make something new. I love to laugh and make other people laugh too!

• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• pilates
• running
• walking
• pub crawls
• traveling
• scuba diving
• gymnastics
• racquetball
• geography
• software
• lakes
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Dirty Dancing, Amelie, Garden State, Wet Hot American Summer, Rushmore, To Kill a Mockingbird
Music: Jay-Z, Ryan Adams, Brian Wilson, Ani DiFranco, James Brown, Ben Folds, Ben Sollee, Jurassic 5, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Paul Simon, Bonnie Raitt-pretty wide variety. I love it when people share their favorites with me.
Books: I love to read! The Poisonwood Bible, Mystic River, The Time Traveler's Wife, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lolita, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Wonder Boys, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, anything by Toni Morrison or David Sedaris. Paul Theroux's books are great even though he's such a whiner.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Learning how to SCUBA dive on the northern coast of Viti Levu in the Fiji Islands.

Paddling in the bioluminescent bay in Vieques, Puerto Rico at night.

Countless summer nights walking on the path next to the Delaware River in New Jersey where I grew up, with the moon shining on the water and thousands of fireflies blinking in the darkness.

Teach, Learn, Share

The total area of all 330 of the Fiji Islands nearly totals the entire area of the state of New Jersey.

Facetiously is the only word in the English language with all of the vowels in alphabetical order.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Puerto Rico, Slovakia, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, Fiji, United States

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