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About Me

I'm a Minnesota girl to the core. I already miss the simplicity of the landscapes, the lakes, the Mississippi, the fresh cool air and the friendly faces. I'm off on a new adventure in Miami, party city! Can't wait to get my fill of salsa...and Latin men! ;) I love exploring new cultures and meeting different people. One night you'll find me at a Bollywood movie, the next at gathering of Lebanese friends, doing belly dancing and listening to the music of the oud. I love Thai and Indian food and I've braved my friend Yuko's traditional sushi. Dancing is my passion--from ballet to ballroom to reggaeton, I love it all. I couldn't live without being able to express myself through dance. Latin is my current flavor--I learned salsa, rueda, baccahta, and cumbia in a little nightclub in small town MN, the only one that had Latin night. I've traveled all through Europe, done a mission trip in Jamaica, canoed in the Boundary Waters, and backpacked through the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado. I can't wait to travel all over the world and explore the music, the dancing, the food, and the people I find along the way. My life is simple--express my personal joy, see others' individual beauty, and know that all is Good.
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My Interests

DANCING!!!!!!!!!!!!! (SEE VIDEO!!) Salsa, ballroom, belly dancing, ballet, lyrical, jazz, modern, Indian, you name it, I like it! :) Other interests: Design, architecture, reading, drawing, making handmade books, studying different cultures and languages, camping, backpacking, thunderstorms, taking loooong head-clearing walks, photography, having my friends over, playing with doggies, swimming, laughing, creating, just being with people

I'd like to meet:

~ People who are open-minded, thinkers, passionate about life, with a great sense of humor. ~

Music:

I love classical music like Beethoven and Chopin, Bocelli, opera--makes me feel closer to the Divine. Mellow stuff like Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Jewel (older stuff), Nickel Creek, Joss Stone, Josh Groban, Tori Amos. For my hardcore dancing nights: Evanescence. For my ethnic side: Salsa, REGGAETON, Arabic, bhangra, Alejandro Sanz, Calle 13, Fonseca, Juanes y SHAKIRA, AVENTURA!!!

Movies:

Mad Hot Ballroom, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Amelie, Moulin Rouge, Life is Beautiful, Garden State, The Royal Tenenbaums, Robin Hood (Disney cartoon), Shawshank Redemption, Braveheart, The Motorcycle Diaries, When Harry Met Sally, Fight Club, Little Miss Sunshine, Lord of the Rings, Pirates, La Misma Luna

Television:

Gilmore Girls, So You Think You Can Dance?, anything on HGTV and Bravo.

Books:

I love my old kiddie books like A Wrinkle in Time, The Chronicles of Narnia, Mr. Popper's Penguins, Matilda, The Witches, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Indian in the Cupboard, My Side of the Mountain, The House at Pooh Corner. More Grown-up books: Memoirs of a Geisha, Exodus, Mists of Avalon, The Little Prince, Mary Queen of Scots, Tales of a Female Nomad, Paulo Coehlo books like The Alchemist, Eleven Minutes, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Rumi, Conversations with God

Heroes:

People who continue to love when faced with adversity.

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Inspiration

Happiness lives for those who cry,those who hurt, those who havesearched, and those who have tried, foronly they can appreciate the importanceof people who have touched their lives.Maybe we have to me...
Posted by jewels:: on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:10:00 PST

For my sisters

I've seen this all over, and it's so true, for both sexes. Good advice.If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man a...
Posted by jewels:: on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:36:00 PST