Amanda Joy
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Business Services |
| Occupation | Grad Student and Start-Up Social Entrepreneur |
| Location | Italy |
| Introduction | Sharing bits and pieces of life after America. |
| Interests | Backpacking, solotravel, gardening, hiking, running, writing, activism, music, dancing, yoga, East, West, North, South... :) |
| Favorite movies | Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Cloud Atlas, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Knotting Hill, You've Got Mail, Big, the entire series of Breaking Bad, Homeland, The Killing, Mindy Project, Fresh Off the Boat, Parks & Rec, Don't Trust the Bitch from Apartment 16, Garfunkel & Oates, Keeping Up Appearances, Absolutely Fabulous, Star Trek, Downton Abbey... I'm a junkie. |
| Favorite music | Hip Hop, Bachata, House, 90's rock, R & B, jazz, alternative / pop songs played on guitar by women who sing them better, classical, swing, blues, indie, Chinese opera (not really sorry, China haha)- actually everything but heavy metal and hair bands. |
| Favorite books | "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert, "Tales of a Female Nomad" by Rita Golden Gelman, "The Four Agreements" by Juan Carlos Ruiz, "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coehlo, "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass, "The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver, "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri, "Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri, "World Stompers: A Global Travel Manifesto" by Brad Olsen, "Your Money or Your Life" by Joseph Dominguez, "This is How You Lose Her" by Junot Diaz, "The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, "The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching" by Thich Nhat Hanh, "Skinny Bitch" by Kim Barnouin, "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell... this list is impossible to finish. :) |