www.soraya-pathman.tumblr.com should link you to a personal photojournal that will suffice for an 'about me' until I get a moment to better fill you in.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

The possibilities for interesting experiences (with you!) seem boundless, and that excites me.

Interests

Learning about culture (yours, mine, and all those in between), playing the piano, reading, travelling, walking, swimming, eating (nothing's off limits), impromptu exploring, etc.

• culture
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• piano
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

iTunes tells me that my most played artists include: Morrissey, Oscar Peterson, Nick Drake, Johann Sebastian Bach, Bobby Timmons, Archie Shepp, Django Reinhardt, Elvis Presley, John Dowland, Jacques Brel, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, and (for someone more current) Sylvan Esso, amongst others.

Movies. Might I just run with a list of choice directors, instead? Ingmar Bergman, David Lynch, Aki Kaurismäki, Hayao Miyazaki, Stanley Kubrick, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson, Federico Fellini, François Truffaut - that just reads like a list of masters so I may rather tell you that I'm currently consumed by all things associated with Tarkovsky's 'Solaris'

Reading shows me far-reaching places: looking around, right now, I see everyone from Herman Melville to Edward Said, Samuel Beckett to Wu Hung, Ivo Andrić to Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx and the Raymonds (Chandler and Carver), of course.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm eager to learn your language (even if that's English - my first language), to hear your way of communicating. We all have our own methods for tackling the task of expressing ourselves and I'm curious about that!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm happy to share with you what I know of this city, to show you a handful of my favourite things, and there's my company that I can offer too.

I'm new to couchsurfing, and am looking forward to meeting new people and making friends.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United Kingdom