CURRENT MISSION

living with zest

ABOUT ME

I like to be busy, to move and shake, to dance, to work hard and sleep well... After college I went traveling for some months in South America and on a separate trip visited Eastern Europe. I am a nurse, and love my job.

I enjoy seeing live music, independent film, making art, cooking, reading, biking around, camping, gardening, the occasional wild party, picnics, and in general exploring the world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Stayed with some wonderful CSers in Poland, who had previously stayed with my brother in Japan. Couch Surfing connects humanity!

Interests

• arts
• dancing
• cooking
• partying
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• music
• live music
• cycling
• camping
• surfing
• nursing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: balkan beat box, beats antique, ryan adams, os mutantes, fiery furnaces,the knife, madeleine peyroux, nina simone, bright eyes, broken social scene, cursive, feist, punjabi MC, MIA, sigur ros, bob dylan, johnny cash, ani difranco, the faint, the velvet underground, ramblin jack elliot, the weakerthans, now its overhead, tv on the radio, the cure, electronic tango music, salsa anything

Movies: cocalero, volver, amores perros, talk to her, head-on, before night falls, city of god, blue velvet, mulholand drive, muerte de un burocrata, memorias de subdesarrollo, delicatessen, naked lunch, the lives of others, royal tenenbaums, napolean dynamite, and that one about the little israeli boy who loses his sisters' shoes

Books: Driftless, by David Rhodes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathon Safron Foer. The Alchemist, by Paolo Cohelo is full of bits of wisdom. I ate it up. Giants in the Earth by Rolvaag, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, and On Borrowed Words by Ilan Stavans

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Montenegro, Peru, Poland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador, United States

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