CURRENT MISSION

Know German, Know Germans, Know Germany

ABOUT ME

Just finished college. Taking a year off before grad school in European history (ich hoffe). Spending much of that in Germany WWOOFing and learning the language/culture.

Interests

God, music, history, literature, rugby, lifting.

• culture
• literature
• music
• rugby
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Animal Collective, Shearwater, Okkervil River, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Megafaun, Phoenix, Sunset Rubdown, Wolf Parade, Yo La Tengo, My Morning Jacket, Sufjan Stevens, Andrew Bird, Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, DM Stith, Mos Def, the Roots, Wilco, the Mountain Goats, the Velvet Underground, Van Morrison, the National, etc.

Authors: Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, Graham Greene, Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Cormac McCarthy, Marilynne Robinson, Ron Hansen, John Lukacs, NT Wright.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Germany

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States