CURRENT MISSION

Europe!

ABOUT ME

I am a junior at Dartmouth College studying foreign policy and Arabic. I love hiking and outdoor sports, writing, and seeing places I've never been before. I've always wanted to travel abroad, but this is my first chance to do so extensively.

I'm finishing up a study-abroad program in Morocco where I've been studying Arabic. My goal now is to spend some time seeing Europe before I return to the States.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is to be experienced. There's so much out there in the world, so many fascinating people, places, and ideas, that to lock oneself away from all of it is to miss out on so much.

Go! Be! Explore! Travel! Do! Verb!

And then write it all down so that it lasts.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm just learning about the CS community now, but it seems like a great network, and I would like to get more involved in the future. I would be willing to host once I have a stable house - which I don't now, being a college student. For now, I want to try it and tell what I see to my friends.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This is my first time Couchsurfing. This is the test-run.

Interests

I am a member of US Army ROTC - a pre-officer training program.

Writing - fiction and nonfiction; I'm a news-writer on my school paper.

Hiking, kayaking, frisbee and other outdoor sports.

Bad movies

Politics and foreign policy

Fencing

Exploring

• writing
• running
• politics
• news
• movies
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• kayaking
• sports
• fencing

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Have you ever been so nervous that you can literally see your hand shaking as it clutches the wall?

That's a bit how I felt the first time I jumped out of an airplane. I knew my parachute would deploy, that all of my equipment had been checked five times, that it was all rigged by experts, but I still couldn't shake that internal voice screaming "What do you think you're doing?"

And then the signal came on, the others in the aircraft began to file forward, and there was no time to think. I jumped and the jetstream caught me, yanking my chute open with a terrific shock. Then I was floating softly, the green of the field and the forest drifting slowly closer. The ground loomed in front of me.

My knees buckled and my body collapsed with the impact. I checked myself; nothing injured. I rose slowly to my feet, and the only thought in my head was, "When do I get to do it again?"