I am a musician/performer/human. I love all sorts of art. I have been studying Classical singing in the Western tradition for 11 years. I love music, from Animal Collective and Frank Zappa to Britten and Bartok.. and every genre in between.

I have no sense of smell. A condition called Anosmia.

I've spent my 20s living in Florida, Philadelphia, and New York. In 2017 I began working internationally on cruise ships, and intend to continue until February of 2019. Between contracts I like to travel.:)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I started on couchsurfing in 2011 when I backpacked through Europe. Now I'm hoping to continue to meet people, and hopefully facilitate someone else's travels. It's more economical for everyone and it allows people to get to know the culture of a country more easily.

Interests

Interests have changed as I've grown up. The ones that always remain, are Music, Art, Language, Literature, and interpersonal dynamics.

• animals
• arts
• culture
• singing
• folklore
• performing arts
• acting
• exercise
• music
• guitar
• piano
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Man's Search for Meaning, The 4 Hour Workweek, The Brothers Karamazov, A Confederacy of Dunces, Oryx and Crake, Moby Dick, A Clockwork Orange, Things Fall Apart, Brave New World, The Hobbit, Watership Down, Flow, One Week Job Project, Life of Pi, Musicophilia, This is your Brain on Music, I Hope they Serve Beer in Hell. Outliers.

Music: Animal Collective, Radiohead, Frank Zappa, Kishi Bashi, Fleet Foxes, Herbert, Eluvium, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Annuals, Panda Bear, Avey Tare, Jimi Hendrix, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Kashiwa Daisuke, BLAERG, Eric Clapton, Captain Beefheart, Beethoven, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Bela Bartok, Gogol Bordello, The Extraordinaires, Bach, Gustav Mahler, Nathan Gunn, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Johanness Brahms, Benjamin Britten, Lee Hoiby, Edgar Varese, John Cale, John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Arcade Fire, Atlas Sound, Deerhunter, Tortoise, Akron/Family, Ben Frost, Johann Johannsson, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Medeski Martin and Wood, of Montreal, Common, Jay Dilla, Ellen Allien and Apparrat, The Knife, the Mars Volta, The Flaming Lips..... etc. etc. (Basically everything... )

I Like Movies too.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1) Carnaval in Rio: not at all what I expected, And incredibly humbling

2)Had the pleasure of working internationally.

3) I once inflated 1500 balloons in a single day

4) Met a Leprechaun

Teach, Learn, Share

Recently I've been very interested in history. I love Roman history and European history as well as historical linguistics.

I can teach singing, or how to make cinnamon rolls from scratch.

Share all the recipes!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can offer kindness and a positive spirit. I've stayed in touch with most of the people who has hosted me, and for.ed friendships with some of them. I can buy groceries:)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United States, Wales