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Overview

  • 2 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 49, Female
  • Member since 2010
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About Me

I live with my partner now in an 1870 cottage in a small village in England... We travel back and forth to the US and around the world when we can.

Interests

studying other cultures. I am insatiably curious.

  • mardi gras
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Radiohead, Devotchka, Leonard Cohen, Dead Can Dance, Bon Iver, The Smiths, The Clash, Hem, The Shins, The Great Lake Swimmers, Neko Case, Bjork, Belle and Sebastian, Portishead, Morrissey, a little bit of Tricky, Sigur Ros, The Beautiful South, The Decemberists, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, stereolab, rufus wrainwright, andrew bird, Tom Waits.

life of the credit card, life and debt, merchants of cool, Jesus Camp, born into brothels and more...

Sci-fi / postmodern / dystopia: the fifth element, brave new world, blade runner, brazil, handmaid's tale, logan's run, fahrenheit 451, 1984,

Other: waking life, what the bleep do we know, raising arizona, waiting for guffman, life of brian - most monty python, Amélie, deadman, hedwig and the angry inch, muriel's wedding, hair, Harold and Maude, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Lost in Translation, Being John Malkovich, anything Jane Austen - e.g. Pride and Prejudice, The Royal Tennenbaums, Garden State, The Secretary, mysteries and more...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

souks of marrakesh, swimming over giant clams in the great barrier reef, rock repelling off the 3 sisters in Komtuba National Park in Oz, hiking through the high atlas in Morocco, laying quiet on the great sand dunes of Michigan, water water rafting down the Rio Dulce in Guatemala, The (in)famous gay/lesbian mardi gras in Sydney, interviewing various women, children and teachers of various indigenous tribes in Guatemala and Ecuador... living overall and being able to appreciate what is around you is pretty amazing...

Teach, Learn, Share

willing to help others learn English, especially in exchange for help with my Spanish ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Belize, Canada, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Scotland, Slovenia, Uruguay, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Australia, England, Guatemala, United States

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