CURRENT MISSION

To see the world with barefeet that leave no print! To find kombucha And Capoeira everywhere I go in the world! Get to know the plants that grow wherever I am! Make world peace by being happy and sending those vibes out to the world ( i do truly believe its possible). Trusting in the power and care of the universe!

ABOUT ME

I love being in the woods. Or beach. Anywhere in nature. I teach language, environmental education, herbalism, work with veg food, and more. I love getting kids pumped about feeling empowered. I have a passion for cooking compassionate food and have worked in restaurants for years.
I love crocheting and can make you anything you want. I love making things, working with my hands gives me a great joy and satisfaction. I just got really into capoeira and am excited to explore that further. mmm Life is good......

I grew up in NYC and have been moving around for 20 years now. I live my life getting to know different countries and cultures and finding work in whatever brings me joy.
My past few years consisted of living in small town China teaching English to 3-12 years old, traveling South America by land, living a year in a cabin in the woods in a small village in Brazil (with basically no phone or internet) and cooking vegetarian food, teaching English in small town Colombia, working as a clown as well as housecleaner (thought to combine them), and so on...

I love learning new things as well as sharing what I know!

PHILOSOPHY

So… once there was a child
who was always looking for the creator of the world.
The child always moved around,
looking for the creator.
Finally, the parents asked the child
where they are always sneaking off to.
The child said ,
“I am looking for the creator.”
And the parents said,
“But dont you know
the creator is the same
everywhere?”.
And the child said
“Yes, but I, I am not.”

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love the idea of the couchsurfing. Coming from an often cold New York, where apartments are so small that the thought of offering your couch is so foreign, I have always longed to open up my space to others and make them feel welcome. I know the simplicity of a little outreach and sharing, and how much it makes the world go round. Thats why I participate in couchsurfing, and think its a wonderful movement that helps us be more open to others and foster greater relationships with all those around us.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Ive couchsurfed both formally and informally many times. You know, the ones that just sorta happen when youre not at the computer looking at profiles. So far, I have been lucky with those encounters. I am still in touch with some of the people I have met along the way. I successfully used CS when it first started for my entire trip in Europe! Thank you to all the CSer's in Spain and Italy!

My second trip in Eurpope I met someone in the airport in Rome and we slept in the airport together and then went to his hosts house, where she lovingly accepted me. Him and I continued to try to walk from Italy to France (thats a story for another time) and 8 years later, the host is still one of my closest friends.

Recently I stayed with people in the Amazons of Colombia and Peru, Lima, the Atacama desert (Chile) and more. Ended up traveling with one of my hosts from Lima through Bolivia

While in China I had an amazing experience with CS in Guilin. We had an impromptu potluck of various connections through couch which led to meeting up again in various places and we are still in touch...

And more to come...

Interests

I am interested in travel. Talking. Actions. Putting all of those together!
Growing, planting, seeding, harvesting. Cooking. Composting.
biking, hiking, anything that gets me moving.
Reading, writing...
Capoeira

• writing
• capoeira
• education
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• partying
• gardening
• flowers
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• hiking
• teaching
• tourism
• beaches
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: bluegrass, pomplamoose, salsa, bomba estereo, vinicius de moraes, liniker, jorge drexler, kevin johannsen, most things that appear on NPR tiny desk

BOOKS:100 years of solitude, anything by john steinbeck, etgar keret,
Milan Kundera. fast food nation. anything by michael pollan, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Naomi Wolf, Sartre, Camus, ayn rand,

MOVIES: shortbus, slumdog millionaire, HAIR, angus, the favourite, i heart huckabees

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Came to live in a smaller city in China alone with no language experience

Traveled by boat along the Amazon for 2 weeks

Camped out in the atacama desert

Hiked up the rainbow mountain of Peru while sick with bronchitis (it’s very high altitude)

Numerous free things in new york (that itself is amazing... you know how expensive this place is!- get in touch with me for a list of fun FREE stuff); tree house hostels all over the world; learned how to make a fire bigger by blowing through a pipe, and then cook all my food on the fire; plant a garden; Bodhnath; Dalai Lama... biked through Milan in -2 weather, hiked in the mountains of Santorso in the snow, visited the pyramids in Egypt, bike trip to villages outside of Kathmandu along the backroads, slept in the deserts of the Negev...

Teach, Learn, Share

I wish the CouchSurfing University was an option when I was freaking out in high school about what Uni to go to! It would have been helpful. I mean, I guess I joined it in my own way anyway, and find that degree to be most helpful in life! I think a great practical skill comes from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe- always bring a towel! Seriously, I have found it so useful. But really, I can share the knowledge I have learned from my experiences... amongst them being working with the body (I taught Yoga at a drug rehab center), cooking (well, its just fun!), and smelling the flowers (because we dont have too many in New York)...

What I Can Share with Hosts

A smile, cooking, laughter, languages, crocheting, biking around town, stories

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Nepal, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, China, Colombia, Italy, Nepal, United States

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