I'm from a small quirky town in Northern California, love healthy food (a vegetarian who will on rare occasions make exceptions), music, writing, art, and travel, and am flexible and open minded. I love meeting and getting to know new people and am passionate about learning foreign languages and immersing myself in different cultures. I'll spend hours wandering around a new city, but if given the choice, would prefer to be out in nature on a mountain, in a meadow, skipping through a forest...I love love love camping, hiking, cuddling animals, munching on veggies from a garden, planning hypothetical trips, and daydreaming about one day road-tripping, biking or horseback riding across an entire continent.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've just finished my first year working as a language assistant in the south of France and am now planning to explore as much of Europe as possible until my work contract resumes in the fall! I've only surfed a few times, but each experience was excellent. I think that couchsurfing is such a great platform for forming friendships with warm, loving, interesting people in all kinds of different places. I feel like this is an opportunity to find home and deep connection all over the world. I hope that once I'm back in France I'll be able to invite couchsurfers to my home - people have been so welcoming and generous with me, I'd like to be able to give back.

Interests

Poetry, singing (I'm not an amazing at it, but I enjoy it:)), making and eating good food, animal psychology, connecting with and learning from people

• animals
• arts
• writing
• singing
• dining
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• languages
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Lots of folk, 60's stuff, alternative and blues: Beatles, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Gillian Welch, Dr. Dog, Devendra Banhart, Valerie June, Benjamin Booker, Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits, Laura Marling, Nina Simone, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, and so many others

Love the Office (US)

Books: As I Lay Dying, Into the Wild, The Road, Teddy Bears on a Tandem

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

witnessed the Solar Eclipse in Oregon, napped in fields with a horse, went on a terrifying off-trail adventure down to the shore of Crater Lake, got lost in Yosemite when I was a little girl, had a scary run-in with a water buffalo bull

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can help you practice your English, harmonize with you a little bit if you like playing music, I enjoy preparing food with others, and am clean, tidy, and low-impact.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Scotland, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States