CURRENT MISSION

To boldly go where lots of other people have gone before!

ABOUT ME

I grew up in Northern California near San Fransisco, went to BYU for college and got a BA in Neuroscience, minoring in Sculpture and then spent a couple of years in Guatemala. After finishing undergraduate I moved to Rochester New York where I'm just about to complete my MD. I move to Harlem New York in June. I love swing dancing and art galleries.

PHILOSOPHY

"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards." -Fred Hoyle

"Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that the answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes. "

'The greatest mistake we make in this life is giving up what we want most for what we want right now.'
-David O. McKay

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
-Albert Camus

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This will be my first experience with couchsurfing. Wish me luck!

Interests

Swing dancing, Lindy hop, Blues dancing, Balboa, Sculpture, Meeting new people, experiencing culture and society in all its marvelous variations.

• arts
• culture
• dancing
• swing dancing
• working out
• blues
• surfing
• medicine
• neuroscience

Music, Movies, and Books

A friend lent me some Hemmingway, and I found myself identifying very closely with protagonist. Great stuff. I really like Life of Pi. I just finished a book on propaganda, and have been watching a bit of Manufacturing Consent. But I've gotten pretty burnt out on books. I've recently discovered podcasts and have been listening to a lot of WNYC's Radiolab, This American Life, 99% Invisible and Dan Carlin's Hardcore History.
I have kinda eclectic tastes in music but am currently on a 20-30 swing music phase. It's great to dance to.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once played with an ocelot in small villa nestled between four volcanoes in the highlands of Guatemala. That happened.

I once helped a team of surgeons take out a mans left carotid artery. Turns out you don't need it.

I once got on a train for 7hr (14 hr round trip) for a first date with a girl that I had only talked to for about 15min. Yeah, that didn't work out. But I have no regrets.

Teach, Learn, Share

I don't know...

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada

Countries I’ve Lived In

Guatemala, United States