Sovietsleepover

Sovietsleepover grew up on a goat farm in northeast Texas.

Sovietsleepover has worked in libraries & bookstores; taught computer literacy classes in a public library; taught English in a public high school in rural Japan; eaten marmot with old guys on a train traveling through Inner Mongolia; hitchhiked to the northernmost city in the world and back; flown kites in Tiananmen Square & slid down the bannister of the Great Wall of China; helped start a micropower [read: pirate] radio station; attended the Idaho Beard & Moustache Championships (as a spectator); sailed from Miami to Seattle and worked as a line handler on the Panama Canal; and scored 102 points for a single scrabble word. She is currently a graduate student in a creative writing MFA program.

Hitchhiking Experience

North America: Canada (Toronto area), United States (Texas, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Pennsylvania), Mexico (Chihuahua & the Copper Canyon, Chiapas), Guatemala, Belize

Asia: Japan (Tokyo, Yokohama, Shizuoka, Chiba, Nagoya)

Europe: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, France, Spain

Middle East: Israel

--Sovietsleepover 19:47, 18 June 2007 (CEST)