CURRENT MISSION

To learn about things that I never even previously knew existed.

ABOUT ME

It is really hard to try to squeeze your life into a paragraph, but I'll give it a try. I grew up in rural North Carolina and played a lot soccer and basketball through high school. I played two years of soccer at Furman University and then quit to focus on school and other activities. I have a wonderful dog named Chester, I love photography, and I still like to play all kinds of sports. I graduated from Furman in May, and this past July I moved to Switzerland for a year to be an au pair. While living here, I have been able to travel quite a bit, read a lot, and begin learning German.

PHILOSOPHY

Do no harm, and if I can, help make something better.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing so far, and I hope to be able to host soon!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Currently, my only couch surfing experiences have been on the futons of my friends at other schools. It was still a great time though...

Interests

Photography
Music- a lot of folk/ folk rock, alternative, bluegrass, motown
Hiking, backpacking
Beer
Reading
Soccer, Basketball

• dogs
• photography
• beer
• reading
• traveling
• knitting
• music
• hiking
• backpacking
• surfing
• sports
• basketball
• soccer
• au-pair

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies and TV:
I really like documentaries, period pieces (think Pride and Prejudice), Parks and Rec, Arrested Development, The Office, The Daily Show-Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live, The Big Chill, Annie Hall, Dirty Dancing, Catch Me if You Can, Erin Brockovitch.

Music: Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Aretha Franklin, Edward Sharpe and the Magentic Zeros, The Band, Doc Watson, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, John Prine, Simon & Garfunkel, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, First Aid Kit, Gillian Welch, Mumford & Sons

Books: most of Jane Austen, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter, Shantaram, Cold Sassy Tree, To Kill a Mockingbird

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I recently saw these Russian guys base jump off of a cliff in the Swiss Alps. That was pretty amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know how to knit and am pretty crafty! I also enjoy photography and have some background with processing and developing film.

I also played soccer for 15 years and could certainly pass on some of the knowledge that I've acquired. I also love reading about environmental issues, so I'm always up for a discussion about that!