CURRENT MISSION

exploring New England and the East Coast

ABOUT ME

Ah, I hate these "about you"-sections...prepare yourself for some cliches...

well, My name is Isabell (my friends call me Isi or Izzy) and I like people, distant places and hot caffeine. I could go on now how I'm an out-going, nice, helpful person, but what does that mean and who tells the truth on the internet anyway?

I'm from Berlin but I'm currently living in Montreal, Canada for four months and I'm loving it! This city just has some many amazing things to offer.

I really like talking and exchanging ideas! I love the things you can learn from people if you free your mind and try to see things from another point of view. That's also what I drew me to CouchSurfing. I'm really excited to see what kinds of experiences CS has to offer!

Oh yeah, and I have a weird obsession with baking muffins and giving American tourists directions (even if I don't know how to get there myself)!

PHILOSOPHY

"Everyone dies, but not everyone lives." - I'm trying to make the most out of my life and experience as much as possible!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

show people around Berlin (when I'm not traveling)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I so far surfed a couch in Brooklyn, when I was in New York two years ago...it was overall an okay experience. My host deleted his profile for some reason, but still I'm sure my experiences will only get better! :)

Interests

people, music, football (I refuse to call it soccer), different cultures, movies, tv shows, concerts, museums, dr.pepper, theater, doing spontaneous things, roadtrippin (already did it in France, planning on doing it in the US at some point)

• theater
• concerts
• dancing
• baking
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• music
• skiing
• soccer

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Sufjan Stevens, Sunset Rubdown, Final Fantasy, Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, RJD2, Voxtrot, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Postal Service, Bon Iver, Okkervill River, Cat Power, Crystal Castles, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, I also love good electronic music...the list goes on. What can I say I guess I listen to what some people refer to as "alternative" (no idea what that actually means), but really I have an open mind, when it come to music, feel free to recommend cool stuff to me . :)

Books: I have a knack for classic British literature, such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and Great Expectations, some German classics like Thomas Mann's and Hermann Hesse's works, The World Acording to Garp by Irving, On the road by Kerouac, and yeah, I love Harry Potter and I'm not ashamed of that.

Movies: oh so many, i can find something to enjoy in almost all movies except for Liam Neason movies...some of my favourites are:
Garden State, Volver, Match point, Waltz with Bashir, Hot Fuzz, Thank you for smoking, Inglorious Basterds, Love actually, Lost in Translation, The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford, Revolutionary Road, I heart Huckabees, Apocalypse Now!...

TV Shows: Even bigger junkie....How I met your mother, Dexter, Mad Men, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Scrubs, The Simpsons, Twin Peaks, True Blood and (I actually feel pretty lame writing this) my guilty pleasure Gossip Girl...there I said it!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

skiing in Lebanon, driving through the Syrian dessert, dancing all night and sleepling all day in Beirut, making friends from all over the world...

Teach, Learn, Share

If I like you, I might share my German potato salad recipe with you or show you my fairly random favorite spots in Berlin. And besides that, I tend to teach everyone I meet "useful phrases" aka swear words in German.

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Germany, Lebanon, United States