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Overview

  • 33 references 13 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Greek (modern), Sign Language - American, Spanish
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • teacher and learner
  • college grad. ba in education (early childhood and specia...
  • From Berea, OH, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To experience all that is available

ABOUT ME

I love people and I love to learn. I spend my time reading, listening to music, hanging out with friends, cooking/ baking, and just always trying to have fun. I enjoy going out for drinks and/or dancing. I love playing games and just enjoying life to the fullest extent possible.I am extremely easy going and I tend to go with the flow. I am very easily distractable and I love to ask questions. I collect shot glasses, snow globes, and pins/buttons. I love wine! Food and travel are my loves!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PHILOSOPHY

try everything once, twice if you cant remember the first time, and a third time to decide if you like it

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My first time was when I was stranded in Munich a lovely couple offered me their couch out of pure kindness. This experience has made me really want to be a part of the couch surfing community. Being a traveler that has had bad luck traveling recently I want to be a friend and a aid to as many as I can.

Have participated in local meet ups in Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, and Toronto, Canada.

I attended Columbus, Twin cities, Cleveland, and Pittsburg couch crashes.

I've hosted and been hosted. I love Couchsurfers

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I surfed one time by accident. There was a couple that took me in after an unplanned trip to Germany. It was a wonderful experience and I cant wait to return the favor to someone else.

I was able to host on one of my last nights while in Athens, Greece.

I've been hosted in Toronto, Athens Ohio, Minnesota, Pittsburg, columbus, Detroit, and Poughkeepsie

I've hosted many different people.

Interests

i like everything. cooking, reading, crafts, riding bikes, hiking, baking, traveling, painting houses, writing poetry, climbing stairs, learning new things, meeting new people, trying new things, music, life, food, wine, movies, books, shiny things, animals, music, people

Music, Movies, and Books

movies- i do not like napolean dynamite. my tastes are too wide to list them all

music-I used to say i liked all music except polka, then i had a friend whose sole goal was to get me to like polka. he succeeded. i cant say i love polka or all music but i like to listen to whatever come across my plate. i listen mostly to hip hop, r&b, country, jazz, and disney, but i have music of all sorts and am open to new groups or suggestions of groups/bands.

books- i like to read.

tv-modern marvels, myth busters, news, football, pokemon,sex and the city,everybody loves raymond, two and a half men, scrubs, heroes, doug, chopped, house, if it can make me laugh or teach me something or make me think i probably will watch it

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

ran laps at the original Olympic stadium. participated in a beauty pageant. slept in an airport. been to 1/2 of the states. got trapped by a volcano, attempting to learn unicycle

Teach, Learn, Share

teach: baking, changes occuring in greece, creative writing
learn: to drive stick, about various places
share: being stuck by volcano, munich, athens, cleveland, columbus, orlando, ithaca, toronto, pageant, experiences teaching, how to make tortillas

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, United States

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