CURRENT MISSION

travel, live, laugh and love

ABOUT ME

i am always up for an adventure of any kind. i love theme parties. i love a good dance party. i am a planner and organizer. i love portland and will show you an amazing time in this city.

PHILOSOPHY

"live, live your life."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

have couchsurfers stay on my couch, show them around portland, make new friends and treat them the way I'd want to be treated if I was visiting them

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i love the ability to make contact with people who KNOW the area you are visiting and to make new friends no matter where or who you are.
its an amazing way to see the world through a different lens

Interests

art, photography, hiking, reading, languages, traveling (obviously), cultures, cooking!, riding my bike around town, eating sushi, scrabble, people, doner kebabs, penguins, Nicaragua, chinese sleeper buses, sustainable living, farming, local everything, family, restaurants in PDX, portland events (urban iditarod and such things), beer festivals, skiing

• arts
• photography
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• running
• partying
• boating
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• hiking
• skiing
• world cup
• languages
• sign language

Music, Movies, and Books

a little bit of everything. these categories are so wide its almost impossible to narrow down.

books are endlessly addiciting to me. i'll read pretty much anything i can get my hands on. Authors- Tom Robbins, Milan Kundra, Isabell Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Christopher Moore, Orson Scott Card,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-lived a year in a small community in Nicaragua with no running water, frequent power outages, amazing FRESH food everyday and an amazing group of locals that made me feel at home with out all the usual amenities

-watching the World Cup in the town square of Praha with thousands of fanatic futbol fans!

-a bike ride though rice fields of China to a bamboo raft that carried us downriver and then continuing our bike ride to the mud caves where we floated on mud

-volcano boarding down Cerro Negro in Leon, Nicaragua!

-riding in a row boat down the Nile with a seven year old Egyptian girl.

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH:
-how to cook some mexican dishes
-how to sign a few things in American Sign Language or Nicaraguan Sign Language
-a few other things i might have up my sleeve!

LEARN
-anything and everything i can!

SHARE
-stories
-experiences
-world views

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Belize, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Indonesia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, China, Indonesia, Nicaragua, United States

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