I am:
curious.
a teacher.
purposefully lost.
making my own reality.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

i meet "my kind" of people here with greater frequency than any other social media.

I'm also very fond of free stuff :)

Interests

philosophy, politics, water sports, pc gaming, music festivals, hiking, camping, reading, smoking...hookah;), museums, swing dancing, Texas hold 'em, board games, card games, wine & cheese, dance clubs.

• arts
• music festivals
• festivals
• dancing
• swing dancing
• cooking
• wine
• cheese
• clubbing
• politics
• board games
• reading
• music
• hiking
• camping
• sports
• communications
• teaching
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Right now I'm on a non-fiction kick:
Madness Explained (Bentall)
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Dawkins)
Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Morris)
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (Yergin)
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Fergusun)
The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda (Sufan)
Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB (Goldfarb/Litvinenko)

please message me with any recommendations (or perhaps links to free ebooks?)

I'm always looking to expand my musical horizons! current playlist includes: Crooked Fingers, Florence and The Machine, Grimes, Bob Dylan, Tool/A Perfect Circle, James Blake, Handsome Furs, Iron and Wine, Muse, Portishead, Tegan and Sara, Rage Against the Machine, Dave Matthews Band, John Butler Trio, Dub Trees.

Film: Apocalypse Now, The Godfather part II, A Clockwork Orange, Annie Hall/Manhattan, The Departed, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Inception, Into the Wild, V for Vendetta (I noticed most of these are based on books, of course I loved the books as well:)

TV: Boardwalk Empire, Tosh.0, The Daily Show, True Detective

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

flipped a car over a cliff

accidentally got my cousin high on dmt

slept on a grave

spent a week in Turkish jail

built a pc

raced autocross

lived in a tent in the forest for a summer

amassed a library

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach:
basic (and cheap) soup cooking
how/what to pack
ESL (grammar/vocab/spelling/punctuation/style)
basic self defense
basic swing dancing
basic software/hardware troubleshooting

i want to learn:
art stuff
more cooking stuff
what it means to be human

share:
everything. i don't believe in ownership.

What I Can Share with Hosts

a library
a lake
alliteration lessons

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Moldova, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Georgia, Netherlands, Ukraine, United States

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