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moustache

ABOUT ME

I just completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland. I'm in the process of getting my TEFL certification and will be moving to Taipei.

I haven't traveled much, but I'm SO ready to make up for lost time.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Once I settle down and get my bearings in Taipei, I look forward to hosting and getting involved in the community.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None. I just heard about this site through a friend, and with a move to Taiwan in the works I couldn't be happier to find out about it.

Interests

I am a relatively big reader. I love the outdoors (swimming, hiking, biking, etc), thrift shopping, inebriated board game nights with friends, conversations over coffee and under the influence (420 friendly). I would say dancing, but it tends to look more like writhing to outsiders.

When it comes to traveling, I am completely content to just walk around and take it all in.

• make up
• dancing
• cheese
• coffee
• shopping
• thrifting
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Heathers, Amelie, Up In Smoke, An Education, Up In the Air, Crumb, Good Hair, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Doubt, As Good as It Gets, Adaptation, Stand By Me, Toy Story 3 (to name a few)

Music:
If I were to make a mixCD for you right now, it would look something like this:
1)Say Aha-Santigold
2)Holland 1945-Neutral Milk Hotel
3)Song 2-Blur
4)Finally Moving-Pretty Lights
5)Gossip Folks-Missy Elliott
6)Doo Wop-Lauryn Hill
7)Seven One Eight-Fannypack
8)Ghostwriter-RJD2
9)Cherry-Ratatat
10)Calabria-Enur
11)Call Your Girlfriend- Robyn
12)Dancing On My Own- Robyn (I kind of love Robyn)
13)Closing the Doors-Caroline Smith And The Goodnight Sleeps
14)Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second-Starfucker
15)Linger-The Cranberries
16)Bam Bam-Sister Nancy
17)The World Should Revolve Around Me-Little Jackie
18)Haiti-Arcade Fire
19)Weapon Of Choice-Fatboy Slim
20)Dry the Rain-The Beta Band
21)Sprout and the Bean-Joanna Newsom
22)Grass-Animal Collective

Books:
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, In Cold Blood, Middlesex,Emipire Falls, Interpreter of Maladies, Dune, A Clockwork Orange, The Great Gatsby, Beloved, anything by David Sedaris. I just finished Lonesome Dove, and it might be my new favorite book ever. At this writing, I'm reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I'm in love.

Teach, Learn, Share

I make a mean grilled cheese sandwich.