Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love to travel. The idea of this whole community is so beautiful to me--not just the thought of free lodging but the promise of a new friendship, and all the teaching and learning experiences of new cultures and places!

Interests

Drawing people
Drawing and painting abstractions
Teaching and working with kids
Parallel parking
Dancing
Singing karaoke (i used to sing karaoke a lot around Greenwood, and for a while i'd go places and people would recognize me O_O) ((ive always secretly dreamed of being a lead singer in a band, like Karen O 😍))
Writing poems
Bubble letters
Putting glitter on people
Face/body painting
Smiling
Making dreadlocks (i dreaded my own hair over the course of about 3 months starting last september, I really enjoy the process and have mastered essential techniques!)
Being lazy
Being silly
Blowing bubbles

• cats
• arts
• writing
• poetry
• singing
• design
• coloring
• body art
• festivals
• dancing
• education
• dining
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• live music
• karaoke
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Some of my favorite movies: The Big Lebowski, pulp fiction, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, fight club, gentlemen broncos, grandma's boy, 127 hours, nightmare before christmas, cool hand luke, the shining, anything monty python, hot fuzz, inglourious basterds, royal tenenbaums, darjeeling limited, fantastic mr. fox, where the wild things are, donnie darko, office space, memento, adaptation, being john malkovich, airplane, the 5th element, hott fuzz, the fearless freaks, stranger than fiction, ghost, dirty dancing, superbad, etc.
music: the flaming lips, regina spektor, modest mouse, pink floyd, HOTT MT, Linear Downfall, stardeath & white dwarfs, edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros, shpongle, new fumes, the shins, fruit bats, pixies, yeah yeah yeahs, radiohead, p-funk, sigur ros, david bowie, andrew bird, of montreal, anything to do with les claypool, wilco, led zeppelin, anything to do with jack white, rhcp, neutral milk hotel, the decemberists, deerhoof, black moth super rainbow, beck, mmj, ani difranco, nina nastasia, billy joel, joni mitchell, nirvana, neil young, and so much more
Books: anything by douglas adams, steven king, or kurt vonnegut!!!!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Drove all the way across the country with my best friends to San Francisco for New Years :) saw Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, and drove up highway 1 :)

Teach, Learn, Share

I am learning how to be a teacher of art! and I have like an unreasonable amount of art/craft supplies in my apartment. Lets make something together!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can make you food! And share my art, and the wonderful area where I live. I live in a very artistic neighborhood in Indy, full of hip restaurants and bars and art galleries. Come stay with me and I'll show you around Fountain Square.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Japan, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States