CURRENT MISSION

To learn a number of languages to the point of fluency.

ABOUT ME

I'm traveling with work, attending meetings in several cities in China as an editor and assistant. Later, I"ll be having some exciting experiences on my own. I've traveled to dozens of countries, but have not had the opportunity to take advantage of as many couch surfing experiences as I would like. Am hoping to remedy that with my upcoming trips around China and Southeast Asia!

PHILOSOPHY

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." (JFK)

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I had an awesome experience in Tartu a few years ago, staying with a college student, and now I'm looking for a place to stay in Hong Kong! Would love to host as soon as I get my own place back home, and am looking forward to that too!

Interessen

French, Russian, Hebrew, Chinese, comedy, politics, satire, photography, architecture, music, environmental management, city living and exploring

• architecture
• photography
• politics
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• languages

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Movies: The Yacoubian Building, Across the Universe, Knocked Up, Good Night and Good Luck, V for Vendetta, The Pursuit of Happyness, Frida, Walk on Water, Life is Beautiful, The Chronicles of Narnia, Chocolat, Memento, Monsieur Ibrahim, Wet Hot American Summer, A Beautiful Mind, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Amelie, Shrek, Love Actually, East-West, Bend it like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Butterfly Effect, The Princess Bride, Bowling for Columbine, Chicago, Moulin Rouge

Books: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Dreams From My Father, The Audacity of Hope, Krik? Krak!, I Am America and So Can You, Wicked, The Fields and the Hills, With God on Our Side, America: The Book, The Red Tent, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Inherit the Wind, Witness, Paperquake, The Gadfly, A Clockwork Orange, Three Men in a Boat

Music: The Beatles, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Arcade Fire, Beck, Regina Spektor, Cold War Kids, Of Montreal, Mika, MGMT, Ben Folds Five, Lenny Kravitz, Incubus, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys, The White Stripes, Spoon, The Strokes, Death Cab For Cutie, The Shins, Panic at the Disco, Phantom Planet, The Hush Sound, Daft Punk, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, Klaxons, Kasabian, Coldplay, Modest Mouse, Forgive Durden, The Killers, Muse, The Academy is..., Oasis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Franz Ferdinand, We Are Scientists, System of a Down, The Flaming Lips, Cute is What We Aim For, Aerosmith, The Who, The Smiths, John Mayer, Tarkan, Dar Williams, Smashing Pumpkins, Queen, Pink Floyd, Le Roi Soleil,

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

Traveled through seven countries in a month, with a different form of travel and living situation in each! Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Belgium. Now attempting a similar experience in China/SE Asia.

Lehren, lernen, teilen

I'd like to practice languages, so I would be happy to stay with natives of the country I'm staying in; I'd love to discuss just about anything!

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

United States