CURRENT MISSION

An erudite with a goal to practice languages and experience life via social interactions.

ABOUT ME

I'm an ambitious woman working in Internet/New Media who likes to tear it up on the dance floor and a consummate geek with a voracious appetite for knowledge. I like to socialize and meet new people while learning about new languages/cultures. One of these days I'm going to do a yoga teacher certification, write a novel, travel the world, and go to grad school for a Masters degree. I currently play pool pretty seriously and participate in a Double Jeopardy Pool (8-ball and 9-ball) league. My passions include yoga, playing billiards, thought provoking movies, great art museums, books, and eating at great restaurants. I frequently go back and forth to Montreal to visit my husband. I can tell you stories about interesting things I've observed in Quebec.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I learned about the CS Project from my friends Mike and Caitlan. So far, just learning how all of this works. I will probably start with a CS social function pretty soon.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm very new to the CS Project and haven't had my first CouchSurfing experience yet! Although I did get to meet a lovely surfer named Jessica from Barcelona who stayed on Mike and Caitlan's couch.

Interests

Concerts, Billiards (8-ball, 9-ball, Straight Pool), Vinyasa Style Yoga, Sci-Fi, Yahoo! Literati, Scrabble, NY Times Crossword Puzzles, Margaritas Straight Up with Salt, Dance, Entertainment, Celebrities, Performing Arts, Museums, Movies, Music, Food, Art History, Foreign Languages/Cultures, Tennis, Books, Asian-American Culture, Women's Issues, Identity, Media, Globalization, Multiculturalism, Internet, Cross Stitch, Nintendo Game Cube, Videogames (Zelda, Beyond Good and Evil, Soul Calibur, Dynasty Warriors, Metroid Prime)

• arts
• culture
• books
• performing arts
• concerts
• dancing
• dining
• yoga
• movies
• traveling
• billiards
• socializing
• puzzles
• music
• tennis
• art history
• communications
• teaching
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES
The Matrix, Dark City, Gattaca, American Beauty, The Pianist, Like Water for Chocolate, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Iron Monkey, Raise The Red Lantern, Toy Story, Far From Heaven, Chicago, Frida, Lost in Translation, Amelie, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, A History of Violence, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Dancer in the Dark, Brokeback Mountain, Atonement, Stardust
MUSIC
Nine Inch Nails, Portishead, Madonna, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Bjork, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Linkin Park, Rage Against The Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, Guns N Roses, Tool, Nirvana, Lamb, Talvin Singh, The New Deal, Amon Tobin, Massive Attack, A Perfect Circle, No Doubt, DJ Shadow, Oasis, Deftones, Sigur Ros, Prodigy, Led Zeppelin, Hooverphonic, Aphex Twin, Project Pitchfork, Lake Trout, Brothers Past, U2, Tegan & Sara, The Bravery, Thievery Corporation, Moby, Medeski Martin & Wood, The Mars Volta, Morcheeba, Zero 7, Garbage, Vast, Nonpoint, Disturbed, The White Stripes, The Raconteurs
BOOKS
Memoirs of a Geisha, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Joy Luck Club, Kitchen God's Wife, White Oleander, Blue Angel, Waiting, Spring Moon, The Glass Lake, Peony, The Good Earth, Harry Potter Series, The Earthsea Series, Dune, Angels and Demons, Da Vinci Code, Wuthering Heights, Of Human Bondage, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Pablo Neruda Poems, The Alchemist, Nancy Drew Series, The Celestine Prophesy, The Thomas Covenant Series

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United States