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Overview

  • 10 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Freelance Writer
  • B.A. in English
  • From Dallas, TX USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Stay happy

ABOUT ME

I’m a twenty-something with poor impulse control and a predilection for wandering. I love words and language and books and music and poetry and food and writing and traveling.

PHILOSOPHY

"At rejse er at leve." (To travel is to live.)
-HC Andersen

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Recently I haven't been participating at all but would like to start hosting again. :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed in Vienna and hosted in Copenhagen and Dallas. So far, only positive experiences :)

Interests

  • writing
  • books
  • poetry
  • dining
  • traveling
  • music

Music, Movies, and Books

A smattering of favorites:

Movies:
The Fall
The Fountain
Amelie
Royal Tennenbaums
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
Pride & Prejudice
Where the Wild Things are
Pan's Labyrinth
Efter Brylluppet (After the Wedding)

Music:
PJ Harvey
Beach House
Grimes
Damien Jurado
Neko Case

Authors:
Don Delillo
Flannery O'Conner
Barbara Kingsolver
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Kurt Vonnegut
Zadie Smith
John Fowles
Joyce Carol Oates

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Cayman Islands, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, United States

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