ABOUT ME

I grew up in Saginaw, MI, and went to college at the University of Michigan. For the next three years I'll be attending law school at Yale University in New Haven, CT. I love traveling and doing my best to controvert the "ugly American" stereotype.

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PHILOSOPHY

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I actually just had my first couch-surfing experience right outside of Paris while I was traveling Europe this summer with my best friend Andrew. I was a little bit nervous beforehand, but it was a great time, and I'm excited to both surf and host in the future!

Interests

politics, law, biological anthropology, history, college football, tennis, mario kart

• culture
• politics
• traveling
• surfing
• soccer
• tennis
• anthropology
• history
• languages
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, The Ghost and the Darkness, Goodbye Lenin, Children of Men, Mean Girls, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Exorcist, La Vita E Bella

Television: The West Wing, Arrested Development, True Blood, 30 Rock, The Twilight Zone, Jeopardy, The Office

Books: George Orwell, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rory Stewart, Bob Woodward, Kurt Vonnegut

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went to New York City for the first time in August 2001, only three weeks before 9/11, and was able to visit the World Trade Center. I'm so grateful that my parents took me on that trip.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: English, maybe a little bit of French, American politics

Learn: Any/all other languages, natural sciences, foreign culture & cuisine

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Haiti, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Morocco, United States

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