I'm an American bro who grew up in Austin, Texas.

I love meeting foreign people, speaking foreign words and eating foreign foods; variety is the spice of life.

I went to language schools in Germany and Russia; now I'm studying International Business and Mandarin Chinese at a university in Taipei, Taiwan.

"A little learning makes the whole world kin."
-- Proverbs xxxii, 7.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Make friends!

Interests

I like to study languages and take walks.

• table tennis
• business
• languages
• language exchange

Music, Movies, and Books

The Little Prince, The Phantom Tollbooth and Alice in Wonderland. John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Dean Koontz. Kurt Vonnegut. Bulgakov. Haruki Murakami.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost

I also saw a Ping Pong show in Bangkok.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm down for showing you around as well as language exchange.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, Taiwan, United States