CURRENT MISSION

Guatemala City!!!!!

ABOUT ME

Hello!! My roommate and I are located in Lawrence KS. My name is Jessica and I am a student at the University of Kansas where I study dance, Installation and Performance Art, along with sculpture. I love to bake, sew, and dance. I make instruments. I love Ballet and modern dance. I am currently learning to play the drums and always exploring the wild terrain of Lawrence's forests. My family is the most important thing in the world to me. I love them more than all the wine and chocolate in the world.
I plan on a career with a professional dance company along with participating with all the arts throughout my life.

Creed is my roommate. He's witty and silly. He has an amazing gift of writing poetry and prose. We have lived together as friends for the past three years. He likes to sing in the shower in Italian and give huge bear hugs. He speaks Spanish quite well and is one the most unique people I have ever met.

PHILOSOPHY

I am a dancer, an artist, an opposer of nihilistic ideals, and a traveler of many states of mind. I believe that art is a connection to what we as humans have labeled as a "soul". An expression that underlays layers of consciousness and experience that connects us to every living thing around us. I use art to submerge into the illusion of separation between humans and other forms of life.

"Everything has beauty in it, but not everyone sees it."

-Confucius

""A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have a couch in lovely Lawrence, KS. This town is adorable with a thriving night life and thousands of young college students. The music scene is well known and always kickin! Let us show you around.....

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We have surfed friends and relatives couches but have just recently been introduced to couchsurfing.com (which is awesome!) We are fun, easy to get along with, and clean and respectful guests!

Interests

Awesome people, art of all kinds, traveling of course, Guatemala ( mi papa is from Guatemala!), music, always learning, growing as a person and as an artist...

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• singing
• performing arts
• beauty
• dancing
• ballet dancing
• chocolate
• wine
• traveling
• music
• drums

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Music:
Moondog, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Nuggets compilation The Pretty Things, The Witch of Han river, The Trash Women, radiohead and many more................

Favorite Movies:
The Holy Mountain, How to draw a Bunny, Dandelion, all films by Werner Herzog. Mr. Fellini's 8 and a 1/2, Forbidden Planet, any movie with a zombie fighting a shark
Favorite Books:
Malcom X's autobiography, Jane Fonda's "Guide to Morality and Six Minute Abs", Ralph Waldo Emerson...anything by him, Jonathan Swift "A Modest Proposal, Tropic of Cancer, Harpers, anything by Kurt Vonnegut

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've (Jessica) backpacked in Europe and seen Canada and Mexico. I have also trained with Alvin Ailey in New York City as well as lived there.
Creed has spent time in Amsterdam and all over the states.

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