CURRENT MISSION

My mission is to help people and to experience as much as I can.

ABOUT ME

I'm a leftist. I make music; I love to travel when I can; I like to read, write, and go on adventures. I'm open-minded, fun, sensitive, pensive. I'm interested in talking about the universe, about community, about politics, about ethics, about feelings, etc. I'm a PhD student. I'm currently working on making a documentary (and I have no idea what I'm doing) about relations between Georgians and Russians.

PHILOSOPHY

I'm interested in what we can do to make the world as good as possible for everyone. I want to experience what I can while I can.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I travel fairly regularly, but unfortunately, I cannot host people right now. Hopefully soon!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

While living with a group of guys, we hosted a lot of people from everywhere. It was a lot of fun. I met some really cool people, and got to learn from their experiences. I like meeting people in other places as I skip about.

Interests

I'm mostly interested in ideas and feelings. I want to understand people better and I want to discuss all our thoughts on everything. Apart from that, I really enjoy reading, writing, and making music.

You can check out some of my writing if you'd like: http://shaunterrywriter.wordpress.com

Here's some music: http://soundcloud.com/picnic-gods

• culture
• writing
• poetry
• meditation
• politics
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• anthropology
• philosophy
• psychology
• religion
• world politics
• cultures
• social justice
• buddhism
• activism
• communication
• religions
• religious studies
• talking with people
• progressive politics
• world religions
• political economy
• marxism
• academia
• foucault

Music, Movies, and Books

Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Mos Def, Erykah Badu, J Dilla, Radiohead, Khruangbin.

Ikiru, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Holy Mountain, Syndromes and a Century, Apocalypse Now.

Hesse, Steinbeck, Markandaya, Plath, Bukowsky, Bourdieu, Foucault, Marx.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have a daughter, and having her in my life has been amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to teach people things and I love to learn. There are things that I know about, but I wouldn't assume what I know that others don’t. I think that everyone has things to teach and things to learn, and that's really exciting to me! I think that sharing is really nice.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm a curious person and I love a good conversation. I'd like to share my humanity, maybe cook someone a meal, go for a walk, see somewhere cool, whatever we can do to connect humans sounds pretty good!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Costa Rica, Mexico, United States