CURRENT MISSION

To enjoy the company of others, and to live every minute to its fullest. Also to find creative ways to integrate my love for travel and the developing world into the life I create.

ABOUT ME

i'm a down-to-earth physician living in Chicago with ambitions to save the world. i love people, learning, experiencing and living. i like to go out and enjoy life with every moment i have. i am always trying to learn, be it by reading, conversing, or just observing. i'm a positive person by nature, and choose to surround myself with the same.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have hosted a few folks and gone to some local CS events. Sadly, the CS site was down during my last overseas adventure so of yet I have not been able to surf.

Interests

music, skiing, irony, motos, raves, hookah, travel, southeast asia, africa, equality, wikipedia, partying like it's 1999, good times, good people, thinking, exploring, good conversation, late nights, early mornings, and all the random moments that can't be scheduled

• beer
• partying
• raves
• reading
• traveling
• music
• skiing
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: radiohead, grateful dead, the pixies, joy division, johnny cash, spearhead, art brut, the arcade fire, sigur ros, gnarls barkley, tiesto, armin van buuren, paul van dyk, paul oakenfold, i'm from barcelona, broken social scene, stars, badly drawn boy, guster, ray charles, nirvana, avenue q, the eagles, thursday, dresden dolls, the smiths (& morrissey), kanye west, brand new, jurassic 5, dylan, pavement, ani difranco, outkast, bad religion, death cab, postal service, the get up kids, alkaline trio, bright eyes, cursive, ben harper, taking back sunday, elliott smith, ryan adams, counting crows, dmb, atmosphere, gangstarr, ben folds (five), tom petty, chris ayer, nick drake, sublime, rhcp, dan bern, david gray, wilco, anyone marley (bob, ziggy, damian), belle & sebastian, rancid, the flaming lips, clap your hands say yeah, wolf parade , the go! team, the cure, le tigre, tribe, andre nickatina, eminem, sufjan, neutral milk hotel, csny, ben lee ... the list goes on

MOVIES: pulp fiction, adaptation, donnie darko, killer clowns from outerspace, i heart huckabees, the shawshank redemption, eternal sunshine, a clockwork orange, babel, finding neverland, amores perros, fight club, good will hunting, american beauty, american history x, born into brothels, the big lebowski, biodome, dead poets society, the aristocrats, you and me and everyone we know, motorcycle diaries, crash, the believer and many more

BOOKS: salinger, fitzgerald, hesse, hemmingway, vonnegut, kerouac, safran foer, camus, sartre, eliot, etc; and for non-fiction: jeffrey sachs and paul farmer, of late.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Way too many to list ... let's sit down over a beer and discuss

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, Ukraine, Venezuela, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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