CURRENT MISSION

To live outside myself...

ABOUT ME

I'm Ashley, I just moved to Austin and I'm learning the city and making new friends as I go. It's a new experience but I love it and can't wait to host people once I'm settled in.

I love other cultures and have a daily travel lust that has me staring at pictures yearning to go there and just adding to my list of "Man I need to see this place!!" I enjoy listening to people speak languages and hope to become more efficient in some. I love dancing, capoeira, the beach, music that gets you moving and spirited people alike. I'm always willing to learn a new dance or experience a new way of life. Although sometimes I may appear shy, I'm not, I just like to watch people first and see what they do and how they act, body language is great for sharing yourself. My face gives away my every emotion and you can always catch me laughing and smiling because smiles are always free.

I also love trying new beers and discussing beer and dancing and toobing the river!!

PHILOSOPHY

"One begins to live when he can live outside himself"-Einstein.

I love this quote and work every day to try and achieve it.

"Love is the perfect combination of intellect and will" - an old professor of mine and maybe Plato too.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love surfing and hosting!!

I also am trying to become more active in meet-ups. It's hard working crazy hours though.

It is awesome to be able to show people my town and let them sample different parts of it from the food, culture, music, and the people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

24.May.07 Frankfurt surfed with Ricardo
24-28.May.07 Berlin Beach Camp
8-10.juni.07 Karlsruhe surfed with Lars
6-9.Juli.07 Vienna surfed with Isa and Spyro
10&12.Oktober.07 Hosted Chad from Georgia
Juli.13 Hosted Oli from England

I hope to get to visit even more places, and surf and hopefully host many more!!

Interests

capoeira, reading, salsa, swing, big band, oldies, elvis, merengue, cumbia, tejano, swimming, beach, fishing, ocean, rivers, forest, nature, science, plankton, ska, punk, trance, rave, techno, colors, travel, beer, football, smiles, country, country dancing, two-step, waltz, cooking, baking, traveling ;)

In no particular order.

• culture
• dancing
• salsa dancing
• capoeira
• waltz
• cumbia
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• baking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• country music
• fishing
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• scuba diving
• soccer
• swimming
• teaching
• languages
• science
• beaches
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Orange county, 27 Dresses, The Hangover, I hope the serve beer in hell, Dumbo, The Island, sin city, Pirates of the carribbean (all 3), Swing kids, Step up, The Goofy Movie, Dirty Dancing, Dirty Dancing 2: havana nights, The Holiday, The Guardian, Gnomeo and Juliet

Music: most kinds. I haven't found any that caused my ears to bleed. I listen to country, big band, swing, ska, reggaeton, salsa/latin music a lot.

Books: State of fear (Michael Crichton), Chuck Palahniuk books (especially survivor), Eric carl, Harry Potter books (although the 6th one sucked), Books by Augusten Burroughs, I am Number Four, Vampire Academy, Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga.. I'm an avid reader..I'm reading The swarm by frank schatzing right now... it's like 900 pages i'll let you know when i finish it

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Scuba diving off the coast of Isla de mujeres in Cancun, Mexico. It was just perfect.

Hiking, driving, and eating schwarzwald kirschetorte in the black forest.

Going to Nordeney and spending the day at the Nordsee watching the change in the tides!

Hiking to the top of Nokogiryama(spelling?) in Japan.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach:
salsa dancing, country dancing, cooking some mexican/tex mex meals (although I'm pretty horrible at it), science information especially about the beach. Life in Texas and at the beach. And supposedly I give a pretty good tour of a city.

Learn: There's so many things, I'm willing to learn almost anything you can teach me. (Especially new languages and ways to say Cheers! In other languages!)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Laughter and maybe something from home. I can also share Texas Country Music. :)

We can share the experience.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

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