hello! i'm a college student living in new york with an unassuageable need to explore, to see, to feel it all. i've got a warm heart and a big ol' sense of adventure, and love meeting people who love good music, aren't afraid to dance a little, and are always looking out at the world with sheer bewilderment and awe.

i've got a need to wander and am pretty much up for anything. meeting people and sharing our stories are very important to me, and i'm always down to help out whenever and wherever i can. i'm very easy-going. i don't like to cause any ripples in the water. i'm just a person looking for new places to explore, for all the wondrous and loved things that make our lives a little richer, a little fuller. new breaths. another mountain to climb. a dark street to run through, laughing, to find where the music's at. i don't need much. don't ask for much. just experience. just sensation. there is wonder and wander in everything good in this world. all i want is to find where the two coincide.

i'm taking time off from school to travel and write. this is my first time really exploring the world on my own, and would love nothing more than for you to be a part of my little adventure. spill me your stories, the rocks you've collected for your family back home. i'll show you the music box i found, break off the good half of my bread and show you a song that i heard last night. this little life of ours — it's all about sharing and connecting, isn't it? it's all about the movement. good people, good food, good drink and laughter. i love open people, unafraid of their weirdness, who know that this life is too short to be anything but themselves.

i will follow the sound of laughter and running water anywhere.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

i'm a college student on a budget, who craves real experiences with real people, outside of the realm of tourism. what better way to see the world than by living with the people who know it best?

兴趣

traveling new places, drawing, writing poems and essays, collecting flowers, collecting letters from remarkable women, skateboarding, walking walking walking meandering walking everywhere, good food, going to concerts, big potlucks with loads of friends and new folks, art galleries, hiking, new forests and new cities, finding magic in everything and all the things, saying woowww!! a lot

• arts
• writing
• books
• poetry
• concerts
• dancing
• dining
• running
• walking
• drinking
• flowers
• traveling
• socializing
• drawing
• magic
• music
• hiking
• skateboarding
• boxing
• anatomy
• tourism

音乐、电影和书籍

music:
white fence, beach house, thee oh sees, joni mitchell, youth lagoon, bob dylan, john coltrane, the velvet underground, jackson browne, the tallest man on earth, kendrick lamar, angel olsen, timber timbre, the cramps, santigold, dirty beaches, st. vincent, kishi bashi, os mutantes, king krule, frank ocean, alt-j, amy winehouse - i really like everything, though. and i'm not just saying that! i really like everything. but these musicians are my favorite.

movies:
howl's moving castle, wolf children, delicatessen, pan's labyrinth, big fish, chocolat, almost famous, the science sleep, girl interrupted, perfume: the story of a murderer, the fall, amelie, laputa: castle in the sky

books:
slouching towards bethlehem (joan didion), kitchen (banana yoshimoto), the woman warrior (maxine hong kingston), sister outsider (audre lorde), a field guide to getting lost (rebecca solnit), the english patient (michael ondaatje) fugitive pieces (anne michaels), beloved (toni morrison), as i lay dying (william faulkner), just kids (patti smith), love in the time of cholera (gabriel garcia marquez), the collector (john fowles), incubation: a space for monsters (bhanu kapil)

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

i wrote a book of poems! you can find it on amazon - it's called 'the anatomy of being.' i wrote the poems when i was between 16-18, so they're a little young, but i'm glad i did it. it marked a very very difficult time of my life and so it's a little, i dunno, cataclysmic? the words are very young and raw. i caught a very open time of my life and i'm grateful for that. i just opened the book for the first time in years a couple weeks ago and for the first time didn't cringe! the book, actually, to this day, is what gives me the opportunity to travel and whatnot.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

my big ol' heart! i'm a very loving and warm person. chances are i'm going to feel like a bit of a burden being in your home, so knowing me i'm going to overcompensate by doing whatever i can to help you out. i'm shy by nature, and am a little nervous meeting a lot of people at once. i take a little time to get warmed up, but when i do i'm a buncha fun. i can promise you that.

我游览过的国家

Aruba, Bermuda, Canada, England, France, Iceland, Japan, Nepal, North Korea, Thailand

我居住过的国家

United States