CURRENT MISSION

to exclude the word "stranger" from the world's vernacular

ABOUT ME

I love independent travel, hiking, reading, finding new music, and eating new foods.

PHILOSOPHY

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I usually just do meetups because I do not have a couch to offer, but I love meeting people from the community, everyone is so open and interested in other cultures.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All of my CS-ing experiences have been colorful and amazing. I recommend CS-ing to all of my traveling friends.

Interests

Experiencing new cultures, eating new foods, listening to music, relaxing, sleeping, studying, ancient greek.

• photography
• cooking
• chocolate
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• hiking
• snowshoeing
• geography

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: The Tallest Man on Earth, Animal Collective, The Cranberries, YACHT, The Dodos, TV On The Radio, Johnny Flynn, Mumford and Sons, Bowerbirds, M83, Maps and Atlases, The New Pornographers, Radiohead, The Luyas, the XX, Yeasayer, Sufjan Stevens, Sam Cooke, M83, Lykke Li, LCD Soundsystem, Fleet Foxes, Cold War Kids, Bonobo, The Arcade Fire.

Books: Mrs. Dalloway, Welcome to the Monkey House, Antigone, Dubliners, Narcissus and Goldmund, The Bacchae, To The Lighthouse, The Republic, White Oleander, The Iliad, Max Perkins; Editor of Genius, Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery, anything by Rumi.

Movies: In Bruge, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Black Swan, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Requiem for a Dream, Stand By Me, The English Patient, Girl Interrupted, Empire Records, The Butterfly Effect, The Virgin Suicides, Liar Liar, Rocky Horror, Closer.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Some of the most beautiful things I've seen have been the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador and the old-growth rain forest in Portland, Oregon, and the monasteries/geography of Meteora, Greece.

One of the most amazing things I've done is a nighttime snowshoeing adventure up Mt. Hood in Oregon. We set out at around midnight and snowshoed up steep inclines under the full moon and had hot chocolate at the summit.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm learning classical Greek and Latin right now, I'm trying fit in time to learn German and I know Spanish pretty well, I'm also taking an introductory class to modern-standard Arabic.I would love to learn photography skills and how to cook the cuisine of whichever country I'm in.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Ecuador, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, Spain, United States

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