CURRENT MISSION

living out my dreams one day at a time

ABOUT ME

Not sure what I want to do for the rest of my life but adventuring the world peaks at the top of my list. I consider myself pretty easy-going if somewhat awkward ^_____^ I'm a pretty curious creature, I admire beauty in all forms and I really appreciate the little things in life!!!
I'm a huge art fan, especially contemporary art/ street art/ typography poems/ graffiti.
I have recently discovered that I am in love with linguistics/ languages and etymology.
I'm graduating university this December and I'm thinking about teaching English abroad, probably Korea or Taiwan
My past times include biking, cooking, pole dancing and reading, reading inane amounts of information on the internet
Fave colour: purple, turquoise
Favourite word(s): petrichor, syzygy, soliloquy, phantasmagoria, apothegm

PHILOSOPHY

who are you really?
you're not a name or a height or a weight
you are not an age and you are not where you are from

you are your favourite books and the songs stuck in your head
you are your thoughts and what you eat for breakfast
on saturday mornings

you are a thousand things but everyone chooses
to see the million things you are not

you are not where you are from
you are where you are going
and i'd like
to go there
too.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've hosted one person so far in France and surfed in Switzerland, France, Italy, Turkey, Czech Republic, Poland and Sweden!
Sorry no couch to spare right now, if you're looking in Ottawa I could probably find you someone though.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Best Couchsurfing experience so far: my good friend Maxime and I planned a roadtrip down the west coast of france. Our first destination was Nantes en Bretagne. We arrived very late at night due to some unforseen circumstances and our couchsurfing host we had originally planned to stay at told us his roommate had scabies... okay, thankfully another host offered to us but he sais ' sorry I am not home right now but you can grab the key off my neighbour'.
Wow the trust you must have to let complete strangers into your home without even meeting them!! We slept the night and visited Nantes during the day... later that evening we came back to our couchsurfing hosts house to meet him. He lived in an upstairs apartment and low and behold, he had 5 other couchsurfers drinking wine and eating snacks with him all the same age as maxime and I ! (yves was older than us) WE passed the night drinking very delicious wine and sharing stories. LAter on Yves busted out his guitar and we had a sing along! SO COOL, I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS TRIP.

Interests

ART of all forms, cooking and learning new recipes, people watching, bicycling, pole fitness, learning sustainable culture or other peoples cultures, meeting new people, the etymology of languages, the smell after rain, making wishes, hiking, camping, reading, learning, TRAVELLING, MUSIC FESTIVALS, colours, sunshine, ocean breezes, 11:11, folklore, tattoos, craft beer, makeup artistry, learning how to not be so hard on myself

• arts
• culture
• books
• poetry
• singing
• folklore
• street art
• contemporary art
• beauty
• tattoos
• music festivals
• festivals
• dancing
• cooking
• recipes
• breakfast
• wine
• beer
• fitness
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• etymology
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite books:
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
Idlewild - Nick Sagan
The Wheel of Time Series - Robert Jordan
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Dune Series - Frank Hebert
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Perfume: Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind

Favourite Movies:
Waking Life
FightClub
James & the Giant Peach
Battle Royale
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Donnie Darko
Pulp Fiction
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Black Swan
Inception
The Godfather
The Prestige
Pans Labyrinth
Gattaca
Trainspotting
A Beautiful Mind
Lord of War
Alien
Bladerunner

I like all sorts of music! Probably leaning towards electronic rock/post punk/stoner rock and other EDM types at the moment but I don't really care about genres anyways

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watched the Discovery Spaceshuttle blast off at Cape Canaveral, Florida USA

Been in 3 group Guiness World Records!

International Student Exchange in Lyon, France 2013-2014

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm learning to play the guitar, I'm a decent cook so maybe I could teach you some tips ^__^

What I Can Share with Hosts

hrm what do I write here... I make some boom ass banana bread :)
We can swap recipes if you want
I know some pretty interesting fun facts
Ask and it will be yours (if I can do it and it's not too inappropriate ;)
I know how to make a sweet pillow fort

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France