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Overview

  • 20 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Italian, Spanish
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Travel Planner & Destination Host
  • University
  • From Houston, TX
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”

ABOUT ME

I love meeting new people and I love traveling. Having fun and laughing are essential in my life.
Also, family and friends are very, very important to me.
Oh and nothing makes me happier than getting a local drink (..or a few..) in a new place with a fun and interesting person.

PHILOSOPHY

"Do what you love and fuck the rest."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Through couchsurfing I want to experience places the way the locals do and meet interesting and different people. I have happily opened my place up to couchsurfers. I suppose it keeps my traveling spirit alive! =)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have only had AMAZING experiences and I know it will continue to be incredible!

Interests

traveling as many places as I can!, italian and spanish, bars and discotecas, reading, planning events/parties/trips, telling stories, sleeeeping

  • partying
  • drinking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • eating out
  • tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies- Stand by Me, Forrest Gump, Pleasantville, The Emperor's New Groove, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Slumdog Millionaire, Pulp Fiction, and I'm a total sucker for the Harry Potter movies
Music- Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Dire Straits, Curtis Mayfield, The Roots, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra...pretty much all kinds of music (except country!)
Books- Atonement, The Beach, The Historian, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, and of course, all 7 Harry Potter books

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I swam with whale sharks in La Paz and it was by far the most terrifying thing I've done to date. I made the poor guide hold my hand the entire time while I nearly squeezed it off. Whale sharks are docile sea beasts, but so very huge... my heart was beating out of my chest.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach- i can show you how to pour a mean bowl of cereal? =)
Learn- I want to be multilingual so so bad!!! (working on it...)
Share- Story-telling time!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Mexico, Spain, United States

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