CURRENT MISSION

Take in as much of the world as I can.

ABOUT ME

I go with the flow and easily enjoy myself. I love to laugh and my humor ranges from dry, to witty to quite silly. I am hard-working, earnest, adventurous, and free-spirited.

Medicine is the most tangible and basic way I feel I can personally improve quality of life. That's all I really want to do for people, but I don't want to limit myself to doing that in one place. So, I've been practicing getting around and learning new languages/cultures intensely.

I LOVE FOOD, especially sweet things, but I'm looking to sharpen my cooking skills. I love beautiful things; stories, movies, music, ACROYOGA, and people are usually that. I want to travel the world for the rest of my life in the most meaningful way possible. I have since I was small.

PHILOSOPHY

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.
Je n'ai rien de mots, mais...
"Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hope to host in the future if I can, I think I want to surf for a long time coming, and right now- in my free time- am up to meeting up!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It has so far been a fantastic community, which has linked me to some great people.

Interests

Pretty equally passionate about the following: BAKING, Sweet things and food in general, Enlightenment, Insanity, morbid fascinations, Reading, Beaches, Photography, Inside Jokes, Tennis, Music, Play fighting, Hiking&biking, Cinema, Traveling, Neurobio research, Knitting, Painting/Sketching, Pottery, Dancing in the rain and Lying in the Sun.

• arts
• books
• photography
• sketching
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• baking
• yoga
• crafts
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• pottery
• knitting
• painting
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• tennis
• swimming
• languages
• medicine
• beaches
• acroyoga

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Movies
Breathless, Rushmore, Brick, Fight Club, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Fifth Element, Some Like It Hot, I <3 Huckabees, Jeux d'enfants, Inglorious Basterds, The Science of Sleep, I'm a Cyborg But That's OK, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Professional, Peter Pan, Donnie Darco, Music from Another Room, White Oleander... (many more spanning ~5 decades)

Favorite Music
I have a passionate love affair with music. Depending on my mood: Billie Holiday, The Strokes, Blink 182, The Radio Dept., Kings of Leon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Fugees, Weezer, The National... motown, experimental.. there's a lot that I can appreciate =) LATELY: lots of jazzzz and folk

Show me yours and I'll show you mine.

Favorite Books
Le Jour Se Leve, 1984, The Bell Jar, The Great Gatsby, 100 Years of Solitude, The Four Loves, La Symphonie Pastorale, About David, A Handmaid's Tale, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, MURAKAMI @_@

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1)Human heart beating during tricuspid valve replacement.
2)Lucy (at the time) the oldest Hominid skeleton, unearthed in Ethiopia.
3)Swimming with dolphins in Maui, Hawaii.
4)Racing horses downhill by bike in Cheshire, England.
5)Children. Particularly between ages 3 and 7.

Teach, Learn, Share

Please teach me how to make something: art, music, crafts, food, whatever! I'd love it!

Share your music, movies, books, etc-- I feed off of them. I'll do the same of course =)

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Malaysia, Netherlands, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States