Interests

• meditation
• walking
• karaoke
• basketball
• road trips
• massage
• relaxing
• playing guitar
• street food
• getting lost
• community
• simplicity
• having fun
• camino de santiago
• paulo coelho
• charity shops
• pilgrimage

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Five for Fighting, Ben Rector, James Arthur, Passenger

Movies: About Time, Love, Rosie, Stuck in Love, Me Before You, Blackkklansman

Books: anything written by Paulo Coelho (especially The Alchemist), The Second Mountain (David Brooks), Harry Potter, Silver Linings Playbook, anything written by Brene Brown, Spain in our Hearts (Adam Hochschild)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

What looks cool: walked across Spain (twice!) on the Camino de Santiago

What I think is the most amazing: I was teaching preschool at the time and one lazy Sunday the mom of my favorite student texted me asking if I could come over and babysit for a few hours. I love her kids so it was no big deal for me and I had a wonderful time but, it turns out that her husband was away due to the sudden passing of his grandmother, she'd been having a rough week at the pediatric ER where she worked, her two children were extra fussy, and she REALLY needed a break. She was SO grateful I was able to come at such short notice and I almost found it odd because for her it meant so much but for me it was no sacrifice at all. But I'm glad I was able to be there and give her the help she needed. I left their house feeling better than I ever have in my life.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: english/spanish

Learn: I'm super curious about...pretty much everything!

Share: stories, travel recommendations, music with my guitar (or just singing, either way)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Rwanda, Scotland, Slovakia, Sweden, Uganda, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain