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Languages

• English (United States)^Expert
• French^Intermediate
• Spanish^Intermediate

Groups I Belong To

Burning Man 5400:7436 Why: headed to the playa!!	San Francisco 8728:30949 Why: i live in the bay
I can help you to translate it..... 386:218 Why: polish my skills	YOUR LANGUAGE/JOUW TAAL 135:127
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Couch Information

Foldout futon, fits 2. Its in a living room, but not alot of people come into that room, so its not private, but relatively quiet.

The couch is a futon on the floor in a living room. The room is not private, but theres not many people who go in that room, so its kind of private.
We live in a big compound-type place--hard to describe--but we have 14 roomates, so theres usually someone around to have a conversation or drink.
We live in North, North Oakland--2 blocks from the border with Berkeley. Its 6 minutes walk to the Ashby BART stop, and there are some good bus lines nearby. A few bars and restaurants very close by, and walking distance to downtown Berkeley. Overall, we live in a very good neighborhood for most things.
Jessica works 5 days a week until the early afternoon. Andrew works 2 or 3 days a week and then has an ever-changing schedule the rest of the time. If we arent busy, we can hang out or go do something for sure!
No pets allowed here.
In general, 3 days would be the maximum. We go to bed around midnight or 1am.

Friends (42)

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Jessica Vaughn 34, Female Tampa, Florida United States Friends since January 2001 "pirate radio baby" Friendship Type: Close Friend    2	Alayne Unterberger 47, Female Tampa, Florida United States Friends since January 2000 "We met in Tampa many moons ago!!!!" Friendship Type: Close Friend I vouched for Lingua Franka    8
GALITA 35, Female Jacksonville Beach, Florida United States Friends since January 2006 "Met them on Saturn" Friendship Type: Good Friend I vouched for Lingua Franka	Michael Poulton 30, Male Oakland, California United States Friends since February 2011 "We are roommates!" Friendship Type: Good Friend
Adeleh Moghaddam 30, Female Oakland, California United States Friends since April 2009 "we live in the same house." Friendship Type: Good Friend	Alex Bidot 30, Male Tampa, Florida United States Friends since June 2003 "buds" Friendship Type: Friend
MMANGO 41, Female Spring Hill, Florida United States Friends since June 2002 "we worked/volunteered at a great community radio station in Tampa FL" Friendship Type: Friend	Ljuba Rogulj 34, Female Trogir, Split-Dalmatia Croatia Friends since October 2007 "couch surfing" Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend    3
Jamal Jawhar 29, Male Omaha, Nebraska United States Friends since August 2007 "I hosted them for three days in my house." Friendship Type: Good Friend I vouched for Lingua Franka    3	Letícia Araújo 100, Female Pirenopolis, Goias Brazil Friends since May 2008 "had a great time in AZ with them and other surfers!" Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend    4
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From Paul Flynn
 Minneapolis, United States
 ^{Feb 20}    

Positive

Jessica & Andrew were great hosts and had a whole slew of fantastic room mates. The first night I was there I was invited to join them for their weekly household dinner, which was delicious.

From Rebecca Greenwald
 San Francisco, United States
 ^{Feb 7}   

Positive

Two of the coolest roomies I've ever had (I've had many). Genuinely lovely people with good taste in other people, food, music, etc. You would be lucky to get to bask in the presence of this glorious duo.

From Michael Poulton
 Oakland, United States
 ^{May 15, 2011}    

Positive

Andrew and Jessica are a couple of awesome and solid humans.

From Adeleh Moghaddam
 Oakland, United States
 ^{Mar 27, 2011}    

Positive

knowledgeable, great sense of organization, good sense of humor, enthusiastic about learning other cultures! friendly, well read and traveled.

 

From Peter_Munthe-Kaas
 Copenhagen, Denmark
 ^{Aug 6, 2010}     

Positive

We had a lovely time with Andrew and Jessica in their home i Oakland. They live in a really nice house with a bunch of other nice people and we thoroughly enjoyed staying there.

They took us for dinner and a theatre/rap battle show, we had a few dinners together and all was good.

Hope to see you again guys :)

From Mario Orlando Rodriguez Monforte
 Valence, France
 ^{Mar 6, 2010}    

Positive

They are a really nice couple!!! very easy-going, relaxed, openminded, respectful....charismatic as well.....my english is not enought to describe them hehehe. we spent good time in my city, talked about many interestings things, went out. i recommend them a lot!!!hope to see you again!!!

From Galip Akay
 Artvin, Turkey
 ^{Sep 14, 2009}     

Positive

very cute person...i wish to see her again

From Bicycle Betty
 Minneapolis, United States
 ^{Aug 27, 2009}    

Positive

Andrew is a friendly and very considerate surfer. He was up for anything and he brought me some delicious fresh vegetables. We talked a bunch about life, love, and politics. All the basics to make it a very enriching CS experience :) I wouldn't hesitate to host him again whenever.

From Tristan Koepke
 Minneapolis, United States
 ^{Aug 23, 2009}    

Positive

Andrew and Jessica were wonderful surfers. Friendly and adventurous and full of life. I'm sorry I was so busy for those couple days, but it was great to hang out when we got the chance. I hope we'll pass each others way once more!

From Alicia Stockard
 Duluth, United States
 ^{Aug 20, 2009}    

Positive

Before I head out on my next adventure, I found it impossible not to leave a note of gratitude and a kick butt thanks to Andrew and Jessica. Beautiful people who love life, travel, and the art of banter. Thank you for staying and being lovely guests. Last but not least, my children thought it was so neat to have guests that interacted with them and they thought Andrew was really funny. Hope to see you in the future, happpy trails to you both. Oh, and now I know I can survive a 3 hour run after staying up late, you guys are great, yippppeeee!

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