CURRENT MISSION

To make smiling as contagious as yawning

ABOUT ME

Newly 23, I plan on exploring for the next year of my life. I finished up college in June of last year, worked for about 8 months in a wonderful cafe in San Francisco called the Blue Fig, then bought a one way ticket to Costa Rica and have been living the backpacker dream since. I studies Political Science and Religious Studies at University and aspire to be a college professor of Religious Studies one day. Being an academic at heart, I love to hear the opinions´ others hold on every subject and am always looking to acquire new knowledge. Other people tend to say that I am laid back, cool, easy going, kind hearted and I like to agree with such descriptions.

PHILOSOPHY

Live and Let Live, I tend to be a Relativist

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Currently, I will only be able to surf since I´m traveling South America. When I return home and settle into a place of my own, I will have an open couch policy in order to repay the kindness which people in other parts of the world have shown to me.

I aim to be a traveler, not a tourist. Therefore, I like to stay with people from the areas I visit, receiving a more authentic impression than hostels or lost planet is able to provide (although both are good).

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

CouchSurfed throughout Europe and hosted while living in Prague about 3 years ago. I have also met up with surfers in San Francisco and San Luis Obispo, California. Every experience that I have had with CouchSurfing has been a rewarding one and I look forward to the future encounters this site will allow me to have!

Interests

Religious Studies
American Sign Language
Learning to play the harmonica
Animals
Exploring the world
Learning Spanish
Collecting Fabrics for quilting

• animals
• education
• traveling
• backpacking
• sailing
• teaching
• political science
• science
• sign language

Music, Movies, and Books

The Foutainhead
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
The Perks of being a Wallflower
I collect pop up books

Angus and Julia Stone
Fleetwood Mac
The Avett Brothers
Bon Iver
Van Morrison
Elvis
Al Green

As for movies, I like the documentary type

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sailing from Panama to Colombia, I dream of the San Blas Islands every night since my journey

Teach, Learn, Share

I love the idea of free education & I have participated in a similar movement in San Francisco, check it out.
http://freeuniversitysf.org/

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Colombia, Germany, Hungary, Poland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, United States

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