ABOUT ME

I was living the traveling life and just recently have moved back to my roots. I'm happy to be near my family, but would love to continue to meet with people around the world and offer hospitality to them along their journey.

PHILOSOPHY

I'm constantly changing and growing through the people and things that come through my life. I believe that everybody deserves to be understood and respected. Honesty and compassion are some of my many guiding principles.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I haven't been able to participate much yet, but I'm looking forward to being able to give weary travelers a place to rest their feet. Making people happy and comfortable makes me happy!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've only had two so far - staying at a communal living place in Bellingham, WA for a Model UN conference. They were all lovely people who fed me some awesome vegan tacos! The other was in Seattle for Folk Life. Both were great experiences.

Interests

Reading, cooking, healthy eating, hiking, vegetarianism, camping, rock climbing, dancing, listening, animals of all sorts.

• animals
• dancing
• belly dancing
• cooking
• vegetarian
• vegan
• modeling
• reading
• traveling
• knitting
• hiking
• camping
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music-
Aimee Mann, The Allman Brothers, Andrew Bird, The Beatles, Billie Holiday, The Black Keys, Bob Dylan, Brazilian Girls, Cat Power, Citizen Cope, Rasputina, CocoRosie, Counting Crows, Dave Brubeck, The Decemberists, G. Love, Jimmy Cliff, Jimmy Hall, Joanna Newsom, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash, Mika, Mirah, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, Willie Nelson, Nina Simone, She and Him, Tom Waits, Ben Harper, Xavier Rudd, John Butler Trio, Led Zeppelin, Thievery Corporation, Iron and Wine, The Raconteurs, The Specials, Damian Marley, Bob Marley, Nick Drake, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Wilco, The White Stripes, The Flaming Lips, Tracy Chapman, Sublime, Steppenwolf, Panic! at the Disco, MIA, Jamiroquai, The Cat Empire, Cream, Buddy Guy, Brett Dennen
So many more, but I tried to limit it somewhat! Anything blues though!

Books/Authors-
Crime and Punishment, Chekhov, Gogol, The Master and Martguerita, Lamb, Rilke, Artaud, Cesaire, The Odyssey, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Glass Soup, Cat's Cradle, The Lazarus Project, Oryx and Crake, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Death of a Salesman, Othello, Reefer Madness

Movies-
Casablanca, Everything is Illuminated, Doubt, Psycho, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder one, not Johnny Depp), Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Inglorious Basterds, monty Python and the Holy Grail, Dr. Strangelove, The Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Rosemary's Baby, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Knocked Up, Thank You For Smoking, Groundhog Day, In Bruges, The Princess Bride, Role Models, The Big Lebowski, Office Space, Love Actually, Beetlejuice, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Charlie Bartlett, The Brother's Bloom, Clueless, Dirty Love, Forest Gump, Rain Man, Revolutionary Road, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, Magnolia, American Beauty, Romeo & Juliet....
Well, there's many, many more, but I suppose I'll cut it off here.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm pretty good at vegetarian cooking, can do some very basic knitting, know a little bit of tribal belly dancing, have read a fair amount of philosophy, give a decent massage, and speak some Russian. I'm not really an expert at anything, but I'm sort of good at lots of things.

Countries I’ve Visited

Georgia, Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

Grenada, Netherlands, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States