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Sovietsleepover grew up on a goat farm in northeast [[Texas]].  
 
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.  
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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.
  
 
== Hitchhiking Experience ==
 
== Hitchhiking Experience ==
North America: [[Canada]] ([[Toronto]] area), [[United States]] ([[Texas]], [[Arizona]], [[Utah]], [[Idaho]], [[Montana]], [[Pennsylvania]]), [[Mexico]] ([[Chihuahua]] & the [[Copper Canyon]], [[Chiapas]]), [[Guatemala]], [[Belize]]
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North America: [[Canada]] ([[Toronto]] area and [[British Columbia]]), [[United States]] ([[Southwest]], [[Pacific Northwest]], [[Texas]], and cross-country from Whitefish, [[Montana]] to Burlington, [[Vermont]]), [[Mexico]] ([[Chihuahua]] & the [[Copper Canyon]], [[Chiapas]]), [[Guatemala]], [[Belize]]
  
 
Asia: [[Japan]] ([[Tokyo]], [[Yokohama]], [[Shizuoka]], [[Chiba]], [[Nagoya]])
 
Asia: [[Japan]] ([[Tokyo]], [[Yokohama]], [[Shizuoka]], [[Chiba]], [[Nagoya]])

Revision as of 01:59, 29 November 2008

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.

Hitchhiking Experience

North America: Canada (Toronto area and British Columbia), United States (Southwest, Pacific Northwest, Texas, and cross-country from Whitefish, Montana to Burlington, Vermont), 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)