Hi there! I'm an American living in France (first in the south now in Paris). I have yet to update all the info in my profile so please forgive the few anachronisms!

Salut à toutes et à tous! Je suis américaine et j'habite en France: d'abord dans le sud et maintenant à Paris. J'essaie de mettre mon profil à jour mais je sais qu'il y a toujours des infos sur mes anciens aparts, etc.

CURRENT MISSION

osmosis.

ABOUT ME

I grew up mostly in Gloucester, Massachusetts. I moved to NYC for college where I studied Vocal Performance and French & Linguistics then moved to Boston. I just finished my M.M. in voice at Bowling Green State University...future life plans TBA but for the summer ('16) I'll be around the east coast living a bit of the vagabond life.

PHILOSOPHY

It's ok to go out on weekdays and be a hermit on the weekend.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Spread the word, be a nice and tidy couchsurfer. Repay your hosts with kindness and guests with generosity. I haven't been able to host in about a year which is sad. Hopefully I'll be in a house where it's possible again!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

a bunch!
prague, dresden, vienna, stockholm, riga, dublin, budapest, barcelona/vilanova, london, Montreal, College Park MD, cross-country roadtrip

Most recently hosted a great lady who took on a temporary OT assignment in rural Ohio and had a great time traveling with CS people all around Iceland summer '14!

finally hosting in NYC, Bowling Green, and at my Gloucester abode!

all wonderful experiences/hosts!

well there was one creeper but i don't think it was you.

兴趣

always a tough one but i'll narrow it down to what's catching my fancy now
-music of all shapes and sizes! learning and playing and listening
-languages
-city exploration
-cooking/restauranteuring...general foodie activities
-bikes!
-going to the sea

音乐、电影和书籍

always a futile thing for me to do..but i like most kinds of music except for country (like nashville star/"save a horse ride a cowboy"/tim mcgraw country), r&b, and terrible techno/dance pop..same goes for movies and books i think..if someone who is a massive fan of country, r&b, or shoddy dance music chances are I would not like their book or movie choices as well yes yes simply i like anything that doesn't suck

recent artsy things that i've liked:

how music works- david byrne
eating animals- jonathan safran foer
madame bovary
master and margarita
lucky peach
monocle magazine

gypsy music!/folk songs
found an excellent cd of Czech doo-wop at the dollar store
astrid piazzolla
in the hall of the mountain king!
yes dolly parton
line renaud
tame impala
well since i'm an opera major...OPERA: Manon, Prodana Nevesta, Eugene Onegin, greats like Rossini, R. Strauss, Puccini, Verdi

valerie and her week of wonders
django unchained
monty python's flying circus

OBSESSED WITH PODCASTS.

throwing shade
monocle (everything)
linguistics podcast
the music show ABC
wine for normal people
bullseye with jesse thorn
antique phonograph podcast
black forest radio
here's the thing

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I really enjoy ferries. Crossing in Tadoussac in Quebec, Istanbul going through the Bosphorous, view of Mt. Etna, into Sicilia from Calabria. Not so dramatic but beautiful!

教，学，和分享

music stuff? i can play the piano (not like lang lang but decently), give advice on vocal music specifically: foreign language diction, interpretation etc. a voice lesson perhaps? happy to impart anything
i've learned in school so far..

help with german/french, sort of help with slavic languages: Czech and Russian (yay cyrillic)

perhaps make chocolate chip cookies!

I enjoy learning more nerdy history about your city, languages, cultural events, history... frolicing?

我游览过的国家

Austria, Canada, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

Czech Republic, France, United States

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