CURRENT MISSION

I'd love to be a part of your travel adventures! I like meeting new people from all over the world and gleaning stories, opinions, language skills and smiles!

PHILOSOPHY

What a question....Why do I live my life....
I live from day to day as much as I can. Transitioning my focus from what I will be doing in five year, two year, the next 6 months, for lunch tomorrow, etc. to what I am doing now and how I can enjoy the present has been a considerable (but worthwhile) operation. The details are what catch my attention and teach me the most about myself and how I move through the world, what kinds of imprints I may be leaving behind and how I can make them more positive.
Things like watching two little boys, still bundled against the cold, rolling cans of Princess-cut green beans across the floor in a supermarket and giggling themselves mad keeps me interested in the lives and value of others.
I wonder at how talking to an old friend after a long period of non-communication can make the relationship new again; a fascinating rearrangement in the molecules of a once comfortable pairing of children, or teenagers becomes a collaboration of adults (who remain ever so childlike), exchanging advice on relationships, job hunts, and gastroentorologists!

I am just more and more excited for each day. Sometimes I need a reminder, of course, but generally I am diggin' on all that life has to offer me.

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am just getting started! I have some friends already involved in the CS community who have had positive experiences and I am looking for the same!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have met other couch surfers and hosts in casual situations and I've found the atmosphere to be welcoming and relaxed.

Intereses

• performing arts
• traveling
• guitar
• sports
• beaches

Música, películas y libros

Action movies like the new Batman series, think-films like Happy-Go-Lucky and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Foreign films like Jeux d-enfants and La Vita E Bella, Gut-busters like 40-year-old Virgin and Eddie Izzard stand-up....I like movies!

Books: We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Gargoyle, Frankenstein, The Golden Notebook, Memoirs of a Geisha, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Windup Bird Chronicle, Biographies and Memoirs had a special place for a while, but I am reading more fiction now

Algo increíble que he hecho

JUST ONE!? Can't. I slid down the Great Wall of China on a metal sled. I saw fireworks on New Years from a beach in Hawaii with a friend, and again five years later from a bus station in Hamburg with my soul-mate. I have been a patient in a smaller Chinese hospital where my roommate smoked cigarettes and ate take-out. I have watched my little brother perform a guitar solo on stage. That was probably the most amazing.

Enseña, aprende, comparte

Special knowledge? I make pretty decent scrambled eggs...I know a bit about Greek mythology, I spent a lot of time with organized sports teams, I grew up in the church but found a different path later on, traveling to different parts of the world left me with a different outlook, a more inquisitive outlook, I would say.

In general, I like to suggest enthusiasm in trying new things to others. I am not particularly gifted in any one thing, but I will try most things, and with gusto!

Países que he visitado

Australia, France, Namibia, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Países en los que he vivido

China, Germany, United States

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