I'm a nursing student at Columbia University. Learning languages is a huge passion of mine. Health and fitness are important to me. I have worked as a case manager for homeless youth, I worked in organ donation, and I hope to continue in emergency medicine as nurse for Doctors Without Borders one day.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to see the day to day life of people. Even in the same country, our "norms" are so vastly different. I want to people to share their perspective with me and vice versa.

Interests

• language exchange
• emergency medicine
• excercise
• plant based

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Jacob Collier
Dean Martin
Kings Kaleidoscope

Movies:
Parasite
Black swan

Books:
When Tears Are Not Enough
The Count of Monte Cristo

Frankenstein

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I lived in a small town in Morocco for 2 1/2 years through the Peace Corps

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: English, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. I enjoy teaching and can give a fun crash course in Arabic
if you're up for one

Learn: Whatever you're an expert on, academic or nonacademic. Everyone's an expert at something, growing up in a country, state, city, town makes you the expert of it.

Share: Moroccan lentils or hummus. Quick, easy, and healthy

What I Can Share with Hosts

On a practical level, I can cook for you. I enjoy cooking and can make healthy vegan meals for you.

I like talking about cultures. Living in Morocco, I've thought about honor/shame culture vs our innocence/guilt culture.

I want to work in emergency medicine, so talking about grief and trauma are also interesting to me.

Countries I’ve Visited

El Salvador, England, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, France, Morocco, United States