CURRENT MISSION

To learn how to cook like my mother....may take a while!

ABOUT ME

I am currently teaching English in Madrid. I found out almost by coincidence that I really enjoy working with kids and that I can use music to teach the language. My hobbies include: playing soccer, reading, people watching, laughing a lot (all my friends will agree), and listening to classical music. I also love camping and going to our cabin in Minnesota where we take our boat out and water-ski, have tube wars, and get incredibly sun burnt!

PHILOSOPHY

Nothing is hard, only time-consuming

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Try to show people around when I have time. I enjoy meeting new people.

Interests

Music, reading, traveling, good food, good conversation, learning about other cultures.

• dining
• cooking
• boating
• reading
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• camping
• skiing
• soccer

Music, Movies, and Books

Everything by Beethoven, Debussy, any of Brahms chamber pieces or symphonies esp. his piano quintet and last symphony, Faure, Rachmaninov, Mahler's Adagietto, Dvorak's piano quintet and violin concerto, the list could go on forever...

Books: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, Hunger Games, Neither Here nor There, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Memoirs of a Geisha, Thousand Splendid Suns and Kite Runner, The Green Mile, The Pillars of the Earth

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Mahler 2nd performed by the Royal Concertgebouw in Vienna at the Musikverein! Simply wonderful.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to enjoy classical music, share this beautiful city, and walk for hours around the center.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Spain