Hey JS0 fans, I’m the new intern!

I’ve had an insatiable desire to travel my whole life. I’m still young, so it’s not like I’ve had many opportunities to see the world outside of print (i.e. travelogues and travel websites), but I’ve done what I can. I’ve traveled a large part of the United States and backpacked through Europe for a month during high school. I am not ashamed to admit that I’m slightly OCD about everything from organizing my bookshelf to what I’m wearing that day, so living out of a messy backpack scared me witless at first. It turned out that sleeping on trains in the close company of people I’d never met before, eating delicious food made on the street, staying in a sketchy hostel situated next to what I’m pretty sure was a heroin lab, and lugging around everything I would need for a month in a dirty sack on my back was the most amazing experience I’ve ever had, and I can only hope that I’ll be able to do it again soon!

My personal travel dreams: learn a Slavic language and travel through Eastern Europe, walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, and sail my own boat on a tour of the Mediterranean Sea. But besides travel, I love spending hours upon hours in used book stores; learning about history (specifically the 1930s through 1950s); collecting maps, globes, and postcards; making and watching documentaries; hiking in the beautiful scenery of the Pacific Northwest; baking cookies, cakes, and other sweet treats; following fashion blogs; and appreciating – sometimes attempting – photography.

Right now, I’m a college student, studying Geography, International Studies, and French. I’m home for the summer, and having been full to the brim with feelings of wanderlust and underutilized productivity, I can’t wait to start interning for Jet Set Zero!