ABOUT ME

Friendly and hospitable, Always up for trying new things and meeting new people.
I Love living in 'community'- I love how we all have different gifts and abilities, and we all have our disabilities.... but when we live/work together, it all works out!
I love showing people around the places I love, as well as finding and exploring new places.

PHILOSOPHY

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
-It's actually Mother Teresa's philosophy....but I very much agree!

"Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain" - this was the philosophy my niece lived by during her battle with cancer, and something I try to live by in her honour

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted a few people on my apartment couch, and also met a few people new to our town or just traveling through via the site.
Just started doing a bit of surfing myself as well!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All positive so far!

Interests

Hiking, Theatre, Music, Board Games (scattergories, taboo, settlers, etc etc), Food (cooking and eating!), Road trips, Karaoke, Traveling, Spending time with family and friends, Just being around people in general!

I also volunteer a bunch in my community - in the past it has mainly been with kids (at church, or teaching drama) but most recently I've gotten connected with Teen Challenge (drug and alcohol recovery program) doing street outreach and mentoring

• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• boating
• board games
• traveling
• music
• karaoke
• hiking
• hunting
• surfing
• hitchhiking
• volunteering
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Power of One, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Hunger Games, Born on a Blue Day, Matthew Flinder's Cat, A Fine Balance

Music: Starfield, Barenaked Ladies, The Eagles, Switchfoot, Anything I can sing along to

Movies/TV: The Amazing Race, Moulin Rouge, Cooking shows, Survivor, The Outsiders, Love Actually, Hotel Rwanda

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching the sunset over the rocky Croatian coast.
Watching shooting stars and lightning storms in the middle of nowhere in Romania.
Hitch-hiking across Romania - traveling by car, semi, bus, van and even boat.
Hiking up waterfalls in Norway.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Serbia, Singapore, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Romania, United Kingdom