Traveler Profile: ejacobs

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Screen name:

ejacobs

Age:

Gender:

Female

Travel status:

Coming home

Hometown:

Boston

Currently in:

New York

Traveling Next:

Montreal?

Favorite places I've been:

France, Senegal, Mali

Places I want to go to:

North Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Turkey, New Zealand, Argentina

About me:

Currently a student in New York. I developed a travel bug somewhere around the time I started college and it's been hard to keep up with.

Profile URL:

http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/ejacobs

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I'm fired up on:

Chinatown bus, radio, cities, coffeeshops, really excellent bagels, and music

Tunes I rock out to:

Chicks with guitars, jazz, mbalax

Travel style:

I like backpacking. I like plenty of time to poke around and people to talk to.

Quote:

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde

Favorite artist(s):

Ani Difranco, The Duhks, Simon and Garfunkel, Kaki King, Avishai Cohen, Monk, Anais Mitchell, Meg Hutchinson, The Bad Plus, Deb Talan, Tryo, Hanitra Ranaivo, Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday

Favorite books:

Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami, Bel Canto - Anne Patchett, American Gods - Neil Gaiman, Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll, Istanbul - Orhan Pahmuk, Midnight Children - Salman Rushdie

Languages spoken, other than English:

French, the very beginnings of Wolof

I felt the most immersed in a foreign culture when:

I'm sitting up at night, because the conversation's too interesting to go to bed.

Ideal place to watch the sunrise:

a rooftop in Mali

Ideal place to watch the sunset:

on the beach in Popenguine, Senegal

Before I die I'd like to:

I have a list of books I have to finish. The other more guilty secret is that I'd kind of like to write one too. I want people to visit wherever I might end up and a dozen more trips and a half dozen languages to my name. Last but not least, I'd like to have some idea of what I want to do with my life. Graduation's getting closer.

Let's collaborate:

I'm an amateur radio producer and freelance writer. I love multimedia projects so let me know if you have any ideas. I'm up to try most things.

My links:

www.emmaoverseas.blogspot.com

http://matadorstudy.com/the-top-10-things-you-must-do-before-studying-abroad/
http://www.infiltration.org
http://www.travelindependent.info/
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/