CURRENT MISSION

To experience every amazing thing the world has to offer

ABOUT ME

I'm an incredibly laid back girl who loves to make people laugh, I'm a closet nerd, and I am really adventurous, but just need to get pushed in the right direction sometimes. I'm one of the most open people you will ever meet, for better or for worse. I want to travel the world, live as much as I can, and do something great for humanity in the process. :)

PHILOSOPHY

Life is never perfect, but I try to find the good in every experience and take lessons from everyone and everything. Some of the most harrowing adventures can become the greatest experiences in your life - it's all about perspective.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I haven't had the chance to surf or host yet, but I hope to get to do both very soon!

Interests

I really love learning new languages that I never completely master, trying out exotic restaurants, watching Cupcake Wars marathons, dreaming of opening my own comedy club, learning about wine, doing genealogy research and connecting with my Italian roots, being the most conspicuous geocacher ever, and ummm, cheese mongering. :P

• arts
• cheese
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• history
• languages
• stand up comedy
• geocaching
• delta blues

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies - Pan's Labyrinth, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, Little Miss Sunshine, Lord of the Rings, Everything is Illuminated, Back to the Future, Shaun of the Dead.

Music - Pixies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Magnetic Fields, Death Cab for Cutie, Sigur Ros,Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Band of Horses, Los Planetas, El Columpio Asesino, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Lightnin' Hopkins. A kind of strange mix of everything.

Authors - e.e. cummings, Charles Bukowski, Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, Sylvia Plath, Carl Sagan, Howard Zinn, Hemingway

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Saw Sigur Ros perform parts of the Viking Sagas set to music for the Dalai Lama on his first visit to Iceland. I think it was the most surreal, amazing experience of my life!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Poland, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Iceland, United States

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