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Overview

  • 24 references 13 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese; learning Chinese, French, Gaelic, German, Greek (modern), Italian, Latin, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish
  • 31, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • Student
  • McGill University
  • From Montpelier, VT, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

remain present

ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Marie.

I've had the hardest time trying to capture my essence and put it here in a few comprehensible words. Who am I? It's quite a task to answer that question. I guess the best way to get to know me is to sit down and have a nice warm cup of tea.

PHILOSOPHY

"Nothing lasts forever.
No one lives forever.
Keep that in mind, and love."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We have hosted several couchsurfers at the collective household I live in here in Montréal and I have couchsurfed myself a few times. I love the meet-ups and have had nothing but positive experiences through Couchsurfing.

Interests

Like most people on this site, I love a good adventure every now and then!

I'm passionate about all sorts of music from all sorts of places. I've been playing the harp for a little over two years now and have fallen madly in love with the instrument. I enjoy learning new languages (conjugating Russian verbs? so much fun!) and meeting a wide variety of people.

I enjoy cooking, a good conversation, watching little kids discover things for the first time, the feeling of standing at the end of the sea and having the waves lap up against your toes, saying "hello!" to animals in pastures. (Goats <3)

  • cats
  • culture
  • coloring
  • perfumes
  • music
  • languages
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

(off the top of my head)

- Movies -
Doctor Zhivago, Waking Life, The Pianist, Reel Injuns, Planet Earth

- Books -
Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Siddhartha, Ishmael, Slaughterhouse 5, Timequake, Magister Ludi, Breakfast of Champions, Letters to a Young Poet, The poetry of E. E. Cummings, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi, Walt Whitman

- Music -
Caetano Veloso, Frédéric Chopin, Monteverdi, Ray LaMontagne, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Baden Powell, Hermeto Pascoal, Duke Ellington, Chilly Gonzales, Devendra Banhart, Billie Holiday, Iron & Wine, Mônica Salmaso, Gilberto Gil, Mulatu Astatke, Toumani Diabaté, Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal, tUnE-yArDs, Cat Stevens, David Byrne, Baba Zula, Bert Jansch, Hildegard von Bingen, Clara Schumann, Johann Sebastian Bach, Tom Waits, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Maurice Ravel, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Violeta Parra, Roberto Murolo, St. Vincent, Fabrizio de Andrè, Seu Jorge, Thievery Corporation, Anais Mitchell, Dave Mathews Band, etc...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greece, Italy, United States

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