CURRENT MISSION

Working smarter, not harder

ABOUT ME

I've spent most of the last 10 years of my life in Chicago, with a couple of long stays in Brazil, Spain, and France. I like traveling and living abroad a lot, and am currently working out how do each for a living while coincidently managing Study Abroad programs for a Professional Psychology graduate school here in Chicago. My other biggest interests are in music and biking both of which I keep pretty active in.

PHILOSOPHY

Looks like an Edward Hopper painting mixed with a bit of transcendentalism, market socialism, and a smither of Eugene Ionesco.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted four couchsurfers while living in Paris. This was a lot of fun. I also couchsurfed with a friend of a friend (not on couchsurfing.com) whom I had yet to meet before arriving at his place in Madrid. We became friends, and I consider him a close friend to this day.

兴趣

Most of all music... learning it, playing it, talking about it, going to hear it live. Besides music I enjoy learning about history, art, sustainable development, bicycle touring, playing ping-pong, movies, traveling, and cooking.

• arts
• cooking
• recipes
• working out
• movies
• traveling
• painting
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• hockey
• history
• psychology
• study abroad
• beaches

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies: Anything by Wes Anderson, most things by: Pedro Almovodar, Julio Medem, Alex de la Iglesia, Jorge Guerricaecheverria, Jean-Pierre Jeunett, the brothers Cohen, Olivier Assayas, Carlos Diegues, Stanely Kubrick, the list goes on...

Music: I enjoy few things more than discovering new sounds I've never heard before. That said, the last couple of years most of my listening has stayed broadly within the following: Anything African that has guitar in it, American soul+jazz music, Brazilian music, some indie, and since I've been back in Chicago the awesome improvised music scene we have here.

Books: Most anything by Martin Amis, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I watched a group of 200 or so beach-goers spontaneously break into applause after watching the sun set into the ocean in Brazil. It was a really nice sunset, but more amazing was witnessing such a large group of strangers come together to applaud a phenomenon of nature.

教，学，和分享

I have experience teaching English to people who are learning it as a second language. I also have a lot of experience teaching guitar to beginners and intermediate students. I'm also a pretty good ice-skater and hockey player, and have interesting curry and tomato cream sauce pasta recipes.

I'd like to learn more French, more about Francophone West Africa, more about how to cook curries, and sauces that involve peanuts, and more about international bicycle touring.

我游览过的国家

Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, Switzerland

我居住过的国家

Brazil, France, Spain, United States