CURRENT MISSION

to graduate

ABOUT ME

HI!

I'm Nathalie and am currently studying film and art history at Boston University. I don't usually know what to say in these things, but since I know you might want to know something about me I'll try.

I try to live my life as honestly to others and myself as I can, and I abide by the rule live and let live. People come from so many different backgrounds and have so many different interests that I just don't think there are rules that fit every single person. It's usually thoughtful consideration that gives you a clue into what's right for you and what might be right for me.

I haven't had a chance to travel a whole lot just yet, but the few experiences I've had revealed to me just how to truly great is. Some people I've talked to think that traveling is an escapist activity that you leave everything behind and forget about yourself and your reality, but I disagree. I think that when you travel you are able to get away from the reality that forces you to compromise yourself and keeps you from what you really want to do. When I travel, I feel more like myself, more free to do what I feel and think is right.

PHILOSOPHY

If you would not be forgotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I haven't really participated yet. One of my roommates has been involved with couchsurfing for some years now and about a week ago she hosted some girls at our flat, so I got to interact with them quite a bit.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None thus far

Interests

As a film and art history major, I'm quite obviously interested in both. My studies focus on avant-garde filmmaking practices and on contemporary art.

I love going to live music shows (it's probably one of my bigger obsessions) and reading music blogs.

I like dancing, philosophy classes, meeting new people, learning about different cultures, traveling, trying new food, skiing, road trips, football/soccer, reading (though I don't really have time during term outside of assigned reading), fashion, making films, conceptual art, staying in, going to the movies, bagels and coffee.

• arts
• writing
• fashion
• contemporary art
• film making
• dancing
• dining
• coffee
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• live music
• skiing
• soccer
• art history
• history
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

This is where it gets hard.

Movies: 28 days later, annie hall, before sunrise, big shtick, chunking express, city of god, cold mountain, the darjeeling limited, days of heaven, dogville, don't look back, fragment of seeking, gimme shelter, the godfather, gosford park, the last mistress, the last picture show, lost in translation, mothlight, no direction home, puce moment, slacker, somersault, splendor in the grass, the squid and the whale, a street car named desire, three times, trainspotting, two lane black top, the virgin suicides, when harry met sally

Music: air, animal collective, band of horses, beach house, beirut, bob dylan, broken social scene, cafe tacuba, cat power, dirty projectors, freelance whales, the rural alberta advantage, my bloody valentine, radiohead, the smiths, the velvet underground, hot chip, crystal castles, mstrkrft, passion pit, phoenix, chromeo, foals, grizzly bear, the jesus and mary chain, yacht, the pains of being pure at heart, joy division, justice, miike snow, mumford and sons, ratatat, sebastien tellier, sigur ros, the strokes, washed out, wavves, the xx, yo la tengo

Books: Little Women, This Side of Paradise, Beyond Good and Evil, Ethan Frome, The Awakening, Grapes of Wrath, The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast, The Bell Jar, Catcher on the Rhye, Crime and Punishment, The Stranger, No Exit, Rousseau's Confessions

Poets: Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

straddling the two hemispheres in Quito, Ecuador; roadtrip across the U.S. from LA to NY

Teach, Learn, Share

different points of views

Countries I’ve Visited

Ecuador, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States