CURRENT MISSION

Learning/Growing

ABOUT ME

Neat, considerate, laid-back, and social.

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let live. Be happy and be good.

The golden rule.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Other than staying at friends' house in their respective cities, I'm a total newbie.

Interests

Computer science, chemistry, food (mostly meat), fine beer, traveling, education/learning, literature (sci-fi and more!), music, movies, and making new friends!

• literature
• education
• dining
• beer
• movies
• traveling
• music
• skiing
• chemistry
• computer science
• teaching
• languages
• science
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Pretty much everything from Philip K. Dick, Greg Egan's Permutation City, The Harry Potter series, Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained, Freakonomics.

Inception, A Beautiful Mind, Scarface, The City of God, Catch Me If You Can, The Aviator, The Godfather Series, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, V for Vendetta, The Day of The Jackal, Crash, House of Sand and Fog, The Fall, Anchorman, Austin Powers series, American Pie 1, GATTACA, Eurotrip, Dogma, Requiem For A Dream, Pi, Harry Potter Series, (There are so many from so many genres).

TV: Mad Men, Dexter, Breaking Bad, BBC's Sherlock Holmes, Top Gear (UK), The Walking Dead, The Game of Thrones, House MD, Frontline, NOVA.

Music: Everything, it depends on my mood. Exceptions: overplayed pop music, some country, heavy/death metal, or anything with non-melodic screaming.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went down the black slopes after learning to ski the day before. It was intense and I lived!

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm a hobbyist programmer, for most c-style languages (C/C++/C#/Java).

I am experienced with research protocols and the like in biochemistry. I can explain much of the current research in cancer and genomics occurring today.

I'm a new language learner, I taught myself Spanish!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, United States

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