CURRENT MISSION

To learn and experience as much as I can

ABOUT ME

I'm an idealistic realist. I am a student of culture, political science, and society. I despise oppression and injustice and I believe in passion, integrity, and strength of spirit. I drink my tea out of china tea cups and can't stand coffee. As a young woman of strong faith I find the same sense of peace in a mosque as in a cathedral, and I'm still young enough to believe that individuals can change the world and anything is possible..

PHILOSOPHY

- Rene Descartes: Cogito Ergo Sum
- Benjamin Disraeli: Never apologize for
showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
- Rise Against: Simply because you can breathe doesn't mean you're alive or that you really live

Never apologize with roses you never stopped to smell on the way.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

A note to all the Egyptian men on Couchsurfing: this is NOT a dating website, and my profile clearly states that I do NOT host men. Please do NOT send me a hosting request when you live in Cairo and are actually trying to ask me on a date. I'm not interested.

Interests

traveling, music, playing guitar, political science, history, culture, language, cooking, photography, journalism, chilling with friends, reading

• culture
• photography
• cooking
• coffee
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• history
• journalism
• political science
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: A Love Song for Bobby Long, Blood Diamond, Bridge to the Sun, Edukators, Fearless, Head in the Clouds, Man on Fire, The Painted Veil, Persepolis, When Nietzsche Wept

Music: a little bit of everything from progressive rock to punk to musicals to classical to traditional Irish (Anathema, Cattive Abitudini, Celtic Woman, Dropkick Murphys, Jennifer Knapp, Olafur Arnalds, Phantom of the Opera, Poets of the Fall, Rancid, Rise Against, Streetlight Manifesto, Thrice, and more)

Books: Daddy & Jaguar by Loup Durand, Vanity Fair, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, The Source, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, My Name Is Asher Lev by Chiam Potok, everything by Raymond E Feist

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent three months traveling in the interior of the Amazon

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Honduras, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Palestine, Philippines, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Egypt, Italy, United States