- trying to balance my restlessness with completing my studies
- a mantra of being process and result oriented, independent, continuously learning/contributing fully to anything, reasoning through retrospection
- a continuous memory hoarder by means of writing and videography
- podcast lover

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

productive disequilibrium, building meaningful connection, to listen
(more detailed thoughts on the relationship of a host to the hosted, applicable in many cases: https://brightthemag.com/the-third-world-is-not-your-classroom-9eee1546f565)

音乐、电影和书籍

Music: Young the Giant, Two Door Cinema Club, any Arabic music (Nancy Ajram, Fairouz, etc), A.R. Rahman -- I like to mix it up

Movies: Moonrise Kingdom, Argo, any documentaries (Planet Earth, Chef's Table, etc etc)

Books: can never choose a favorite but recent faves include The Idiot (both by Batuman and Dostoyevsky), The Opposite of Loneliness, The Prophet, currently reading Gandhi's autobiography

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

hiked to Macchu Picchu, motorbiked along cliffs in Thailand, camped in the Sahara desert

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

my passion for life/traveling/cultures
how to make mango sticky rice
beginning Arabic
current politics in Uzbekistan
Moroccan food