CURRENT MISSION

Our mission is to make you breakfast. We can do it. I have a french press and if you let us stay I'll bring it and make you coffee. We would also really like to meet fun, interesting people to talk with, share information, and just have fun.

ABOUT ME

We are two friends who for the past two years have been US Peace Corps Volunteers in small villages/towns in Namibia, Africa. Now that we are finished with service, we would like to travel around Africa for a bit, meet new people, and experience different places.

We are both pretty funny and easy-going people. We are low-stress, and currently in a state known as "Happathetic." "Happathetic" is when you are in a pretty happy state that can induce slight apathy/easy going-ness. We just created that word. You should use it too when you are in a state of happy easy going-ness.

While teaching in small villages has been interesting and very rewarding, we are ready for a bit of a holiday. And by a "bit," we mean "a lot."

Grace can also do a bit of slam poetry. And not the bad slam poetry, but the fun entertaining business, if you will. She could do it if you're interested. If you are not, she will pretend she can't, and that's also ok.

Claire can't slam. However, she has pretty awesome long hair, and can make really good spicy rice, which might actually be poetry IN YOUR MOUTH.

We are interested in getting to know you. We like to cook, which we will help you with, if you are interested. We can also be non-intrusive, sleepin'-on-your-floor types that pass through the night. But we'd moreso like to hang out with you a little, if possible.

We are easy going. If you don't really have a couch, we can be floor sleepers, and we are fine.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The two of us stayed on someone's "couch" in Mozambique in May, who is in fact a member of couchsurfing.com. It was so fun to meet a local person who not only helped us cook local food, speak in the local language, but showed us around his very unique/awesome village. It was so nice to share in a part of someone else's world for a littl bit, and to also share our Namibian experiences with him. He's probably the reason we're on couchsurfing.com right now.

Interests

Books, traveling, the color pink, cooking, science, poetry, learning new words in other languages and practicing them with locals who laugh at us ridiculously, teaching Namibian school children the periodic table, the times tables, and how to read, write, and high-five the American way. :)

• books
• poetry
• coloring
• dining
• cooking
• breakfast
• coffee
• traveling
• hiking
• business
• teaching
• languages
• science

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We constantly have to hitch hike around Namibia, which is kind of amazing that we're still alive. The Sossusvlei Dunes in Namibia are pretty amazing also. Continuing to teach learners amdist school-wide chaos involving random days with no classes, teacher absenteeism, language barrier, and cultural barriers.