CURRENT MISSION

Salamanca in July 2010 and hams, hams, hams!

ABOUT ME

Student teacher counting down to the end of my degree this July...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As a surfer, dude. One day, maybe I can host.

Surfer only right now - surfed Istanbul a few years ago and can't wait to try again!

Interests

Rocking! with The Battleships Cometh
http://www.thebattleships.com

Belting with "Divi Zheni"
loose translation: Wild Women
better translatıon: Loose Women
Divi Zheni are American ladies singing Balkan tunes - http://www.divizheni.net

Baking - Worked at two bakeries, decided it's more fun to one pie at a time at home instead of 200 cookies under pressure.

Biota - Birds and bugs and barnacles still make my heat beat a little faster. I am a bio major, after all. Hooray for teaching biology!

• animals
• birds
• singing
• baking
• running
• swimming
• biology
• teaching
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I like all kinds of things:

sad things
-Hem
-Fancie
-In the Mood for Love
-The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

cold things
-Louis XIV
-Goldfrapp
-Steely Dan
-Bjork
-Smilla's Sense of Snow
-Perfume

gritty things
-Aerosmith, pre-rehab
-The White Stripes
-Linda, Linda, Linda
-Iris Dement

lush things
-Queen
-Dungen
-Laura Nyro
-Led Zeppelin
-cooking shows
-bakeries
-restaurants

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I used to go to the beach all the time as a teenager. Then I moved away from it. So I went to Santa Monica, to beach-swim for the first time in 8 years. I was so excited, all I did when I got there was run up and down the shoreline, smiling. (And I am NOT a runner.) It felt AMAZING.

Teach, Learn, Share

Animals are GREAT because they're so WEIRD.
http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/grad/weaver/Pages/project.html

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Guam, Japan, Portugal, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States