In no particular order, my interests are: music, dance, language, friends, movies, reading, hiking, biking, fishing, snowshoeing, snowboarding, swimming, 4WD offroading, eating spicy food and sushi, coffee, tea, conservation biology, anthropology, traveling, dreaming. Here are a few of the places I would like to go:
| View Show | Create Your OwnI would also like to travel within the United States to places such as Alaska and Montana, as well as elsewhere in North America such as Vancouver, B.C. and all through central America.In graduate school I plan to study linguistics (with a concentration in TESOL and TEFL), and I would like to start my career travelling and teaching English. Eventually I would like to progress to a PhD in linguistic anthropology. One of my goals in life is to conquer many languages, including but not limited to: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, Arabic, Ibo and Ga.
I'd like to meet:
YOU.... and my future self. I'm always changing and trying new things so... ya tu sabes.... AND, I'd like to meet Miri Ben-Ari and jam with her for like 5 hours!
Music:
Reggae, real hip-hop, drum-n-bass, ragga, soca, dancehall, Afro-pop, Afro-beat, Ghana highlife, Ghana hiplife, salsa, merengue, bachata, swing, jam, soca, reggaeton, Hawai'ian island music, trance, house, drum 'n' bass, Arabic, Egyptian, Lebanese, bellydance, flamenco, flamenco fusion etc. etc.... world music in general, and/or anything that can be danced to! I love making music--I play several instruments and I sing too! I am always looking for new stuff to listen to! As long as the quality of music is good, then the genre does not matter! Some favorite artists include: Angelique Kidjo, Bob Marley, Elephant Man, Chambao, Ojos de Brujo, Fela Kuti, Manu Chao, DJ Rap, Aphrodite, Miri Ben-Ari (the hip-hop violinist), Zap Mama, Erykah Badu, India Arie, The Roots, Talib Kweli, Leela James, Rakim y Ken-Y, Wisin y Yandel, Laura Pausini, Natacha Atlas, Balkan Beat Box, Bole2Harlem, and much much much much much much more!Music is life!
Movies:
Foreign films, documentaries, dark comedies, indie films. I particularly like to watch movies from which I can learn something...I have recently watched:Babel
Ghosts of Rwanda
Fateless
In The Realms of The Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger
Books:
Currently reading: textbooks and whatever else for my classes...Favorites: Roots, The Third Chimpanzee, among many others. I especially like reading books about anthropology and linguistics. I also like a good-old fiction every now and then.Recent reads: The Secret Life of Bees (by Sue Monk Kidd), Graceland (by Chris Abani)
Heroes:
all of my closest friends...
