I'm a teacher, writer and translator from New York. I'm teaching English in Hong Kong this year.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to meet new people while I travel the world.

Interests

Writing, playing guitar, traveling, reading, running, playing football.

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite music- Hozier, Arctic Monkeys, Bon Iver, Black Keys, Gary Clark Jr., Alt-J, CHVRCHES, Father John Misty, Two Door Cinema Club, Daft Punk, Childish Gambino, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, LCD Soundsystem, Breakbot, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding...the list goes on.

Movies- Inglorious Basterds, Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, American Psycho...and tons of horror films

Books--everything by James Joyce, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Pale Fire by Nabokov, Crime and Punishment, all works by Kafka, anything by Garcia Marquez, poetry by Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Czeslaw Milosz.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Visited a King Penguin colony while on Tierra del Fuego in Chile. I also hiked Mount Fuji to watch the sunrise.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Macao, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Portugal, Saint Martin (French part), Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, Hong Kong, Spain, United States