Born and raised in the Midwest (USA), moved to China after college and lived there for 6 years. I worked as a freelance translator for nearly 10 years (mostly scientific/technical documents), which gave me a lot of freedom to travel. Nowadays I work in Shanghai at a mobile gaming company doing localization.

I love learning new things and talking to people with different outlooks on life!

PHILOSOPHY

It is not possible to make a mistake.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

Now that I've got a full-time job I don't have much time to travel, so I'm hoping to meet interesting couchsurfers from around the world visiting Shanghai. I also surfed with a lot of great people during my travels and would like to pay back some of that good karma.

兴趣

• running
• technology
• chess
• reading
• languages
• solo travel
• science fiction
• weightlifting

音乐、电影和书籍

Music: Classic Rock, Muse, Tchaikovsky
Movies: Indiana Jones, Lawrence of Arabia
Books: Don Quixote, LOTR, anything scifi...

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I was the course trainer for the Chinese version of the TV show "American Ninja Warrior".

教，学，和分享

Teach: English/Chinese, Chess, Exercise Nutrition

Learn: I'm currently trying to learn Russian, but I'm interested in most everything

Share: Crazy travel stories

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

I've got a lot of travel stories and stories from living in China. I wrote my masters thesis on Chinese scifi, so if you're interested in that I can talk your ear off.

I'm not a very good cook, but I can make some damn good stovetop popcorn in all kinds of flavors (coffee/chili peppers/ginger).

我游览过的国家

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Ukraine

我居住过的国家

China, Russian Federation, United States