CURRENT MISSION

To live every day to its fullest while improving lives.

ABOUT ME

Creative, Imaginative, and Joyful. A serious affinity for books. Passionate about: Education in developing countries, Social Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Development.

I love life and most days wake up feeling like I won the lottery. I am highly spontaneous, super inquisitive and very energetic person who always likes to try new things. I love to learn so I enjoy going to lectures and museums.

I am pretty in touch with my inner geek and enjoy book clubs. I have an appreciation for poetry and architecture.

I am pretty goofy and always laughing/smiling. I have a huge heart and love to give. I am passionate about helping others and empowering him/her to live their best lives. I like to listen to audio books while I bake. I have a serious passion for music and dancing. "I came to live out loud" by Emile Zola is a quote that applies to me. I like my career.

I LOVE to travel and learn more about the world hands on. I lived in Asia for almost 7 years and was very fortunate to travel throughout most of the region. My dream is to spend a year (+) traveling the world.

PHILOSOPHY

“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it”

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe it possible"

"To be nobody but yourself, in a world, which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting"

"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. "

"Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood."

"No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love meeting new people and traveling.

Happy to offer you a little show you around the best city in the world (my little Shanghai)!

Interests

photography, foreign films, people watching, writing, traveling, learning new languages, reading, painting, ball room dancing, road trips and being indomitable.

• writing
• books
• poetry
• architecture
• photography
• dancing
• education
• walking
• clubbing
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• hiking
• scuba diving
• teaching
• entrepreneurship
• languages
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

Music = Avett Brothers, Gypsy Kings, First Aid Kit, Bon Iver
Movies = True Romance, About Time, Feast of Love, City of God
Books = Prodigal Summer, Daringly Greatly, The Brain that Changes Itself

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking the Himalaya's in Nepal and Scuba Diving in Borneo.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Guatemala, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Ecuador, India, United States

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