CURRENT MISSION

learning about life

ABOUT ME

I am a friendly researcher, lecturer, child entertainer (magician, face-painter, balloon animal-twister), vegetarian, volunteer, swim teacher, Californian, babysitter, tutor, admirer, big and little sister, traveler, adventurer, bungee jumper, hair-donater and yoga-doer with a craving for new places and fresh muffins. I would love to meet you!

PHILOSOPHY

'It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.' Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love it.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The best invention since carrot cake!

兴趣

soft-serve ice cream, swimming, child psychology, rain, people watching, cereal in a cup, thanatology, laughing, reading, listening to music, the beach, dancing, conversing, traveling, sharing, running, New Zealand, guitars (sorry, I can't play yet), Berkeley, flowers, brains, hospice care, and dreaming

• animals
• dancing
• vegetarian
• yoga
• running
• instructor
• flowers
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• adventure races
• bungee jumping
• swimming
• teaching
• psychology
• volunteering
• beaches

音乐、电影和书籍

"Crash," "A Beautiful Mind," "The Other Sister," "Peter Pan," "Garden State," and so many more, anything by Carson McCullers, and Where the Red Fern Grows, Sarah McGlachlan, Elton John, Cat Powers, the Coors and most music in general (and I LOVE people who play guitar!)

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Hitch hiking to Queenstown, New Zealand and bungee jumping off the Kawarau Bridge... being hypnotized... watching a goat give birth to a kid... helping a teen girl walk for the first time... couchsurfing across the UK... Learning from women in Kalighat, India... being given the gift of time.

教，学，和分享

Want to learn to swim? I am a swim instructor from Berkeley, California. I studied in New Zealand for 6 months in 2007 and loved that country to bits, moved back to California, studied in the UK for 6 months, moved back to California, studied in NZ again for 4 years and am now back in the middle of the Golden State.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

Lots of stories... and a listening ear.

我游览过的国家

Australia, Canada, Fiji, France, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Thailand

我居住过的国家

New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States