CURRENT MISSION

Here, sit quietly, and I'll tell you a story; a story of fierce vindication, righteous failure and maddening triumph. This is your story...

ABOUT ME

I'm an up-and-coming teacher and experienced filmmaker. I try to capture the beauty of a simple thing. Frame by frame, the complexity of things.
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I can share with you many thoughts, stories, and beliefs from many different ideas and philosophies. Most important, I want to listen to the stories you tell - I pay attention to how everyone tells their stories through words, art, actions, or feelings... and it gives me inspiration. I speak genuinely from my heart, even if my own heart can be a mystery to me sometimes.

I almost always find the people I make company with enjoyable. I am drawn to many different kinds of people and I've walked in many different shoes - and if I haven't walked in them, I've walked beside them.

I'm not afraid of afternoon rain or climbing onto a roof. I'm always trying to find what boundary of mine I might try to push next. Even I can get nervous sometimes, and I love the thrill of life.

My mind is sometimes amazingly complex and connected, while other times it is simple and clean; it is not enough to be just logical and philosophical. The simple stories can be just as beautiful and inspiring, and I hope you can tell me yours~

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My first CS experience was in Firenze, Italy with an amazing woman named Paris. I explored the city in the most atypical, non-touristic fashion, which is exactly how I like it. I'm not the kind of person who wants to just see the "big photo-taking sites" or do the typical tourist things; I like to experience a culture, a society, a place, through its roots, its locals. That's the kind of experience I had with Paris, and I'm looking forward to creating more like it.

Interests

playing guitar, hiking, camping, star-gazing, science (especially astronomy,) filmmaking, studying Japanese, student exchange, wandering, getting lost, nature, dreams, staying up all night talking, cooking, reading, studying, writing, countless others~

• dogs
• arts
• culture
• writing
• fashion
• film making
• beauty
• cooking
• reading
• cars
• guitar
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• astronomy
• teaching
• history
• religion
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

a few genres:- soundtracks- progressive rock/metal- indie/folk- industrial/experimental- celtic/druid musica few books:- Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael", "My Ishmael", and "The Story of B"- Milan Kundera's "Unbearble Lightness of Being"- Rose Tremain's "Sacred Country"- Neil Gaiman's "American Gods"- Science encyclopedias- George Orwell's "1984"- Sam Kieth's "The Maxx"a few films:- Manji (1964)- La jetée (1962)- A Page of Madness (1926)- The Seventh Seal (1957)- Lost in Translation- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My life began in dirty flood water. Knee-high, sometimes neck-high, swimming home from school or surfing on the neighbour's fence. I remember playing fetch when I was little with the dogs, tossing sticks into the water for them to catch. I asked questions - if it's called a drain then why isn't it draining, why is it always brown, what's a snow day, do all roaches swim? I giggled at the half-sunken cars floating down the street, I listened to the night-long thunderstorms, I sailed every imaginable sea.

Dirty flood water means so much more to me than you might ever think.~

Teach, Learn, Share

- my experiences living abroad in many unique places
- teaching, the art and occupation
- my stories, my observations, my advice
- eastern Asian philosophies and religions
- film history
- visual/audio elements of composition in film
- the production process
- social theories (modernity theory, post-colonial, globalization)
- astronomy
- most importantly, maybe a friend
- but what i want to learn? anything.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Slovakia, South Korea, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Japan, United States

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