CURRENT MISSION

To live better... to live one day at a time... to grow in virtue and nature through doing super excellent things with my life.

ABOUT ME

Fun, charismatic, witty, embarassing, awkward, interested, intellectual, talented (but not overly talented), human, relaxed, eccentric,

PHILOSOPHY

I am a little jaded about the world, but am absolutely positive that everyday impact is the real heroism. I guess I can feel this way because I am not one of the supremely skilled in this world of 6 billion people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Changing lives one encounter at a time. Love couch surfing dearly and find it to be a way to meet wonderful, enormous hearted individuals. Just an overall incredible thing.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couch surfed in Stockholm Bordeaux, and Paris, Dublin and Edinburgh. Went camping in Glasgow with a dynamite Cser and went on a vintage clothing trying/buying fripperie event. Surfed in Berlin as well, where we ate some of the best damn Ethiopian food I have ever tasted.

CS madness in China... just developing into my own CS self. I am at a surplus for staying, and haven't hosted as much as I'd like... but soon that will change.

If one fancies a wandering lifestyle best
he'll always seek to change his nest

but nomads we shant always be
sometimes new roots can set us free.

Interests

Music, sports, dancing, movies, books, people watching, staying up late, psychology, writing and reading poetry, animals, eating lots, traveling to all corners of the globe (I know, I know, it doesn't have corners), learning all languages, accents, anyone who is hilarious, my friends, women (although don't be afraid to host me if you are a woman), politics, economics, culture, cooking, playing music (I play tenor sax and piano, although piano not that well), classical music, concerts, camping, canoeing, being very lazy on weekends and every other day, reading books aloud to people while they fall asleep, movie theater popcorn, drinking adult beverages (no, not ensure)

• animals
• dogs
• culture
• writing
• books
• poetry
• theater
• concerts
• mardi gras
• dancing
• causes
• dining
• cooking
• breakfast
• chocolate
• drinking
• clothing
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• jazz
• piano
• canoeing
• camping
• surfing
• sports
• bowling
• economics
• languages
• psychology
• science
• study abroad

Music, Movies, and Books

I will not list books because I feel that being well read is important, but can come off as pretentious, and I am not that well read :-) I love most movies, especially interesting and foreign ones. With regards to music I love classical, jazz, classic rock, pop/chart music, hip hop, rap, techno, house, latin, world music. I love the violin, the piano, and the saxophone especially.

I've recently begun to ballroom dance. Loooove some of the flamenco and latin music, and dancing to it. Check out Vicente Amigo... wow!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw the Great Wall of China and the inside of hospitals in Shanghai (including cupping, where they put hot hot glass jars on your back to suck toxins out of your muscles), the Ghirardelli chocolate factory, the Eiffel Tower, carnivale in Nice, and Mardi Gras in New Orleans the year before Katrina, I once ate breakfast with the UN representative from Oman, I herded sheep in class at the UW, literally herded, like the dog would, not the person. I performed in a Jazz dinner show at my university for several weeks, I sang a concert (short) in St Marks cathedral in Venice, Italy with my Italian study abroad program's choir.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach.

Apparently, the universe is made up of not ether or empty space, but tiny particles which vibrate (called strings) which is what causes the gravitational effect on moons, planets, black holes. It is like if you placed a bowling ball on a trampoline, but then there were an infinite number of trampolines surrounding the bowling ball in all directions. Interesting.

Apparently, snakes can have 2 heads.

Let it be known that, cellular phones apparently have depleted the honey bee population by operating at the same frequency as the bees' natural communication signals, so the bees get lost on the way to finding food. It has actually become a real problem for some bee populations, and people have been attacked by bees while on their cell phones.

Apparently, Hippopotamuses are more dangerous than sharks, or well almost any other water animal, maybe besides horribly poisonous snakes (this is real science people)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Laos, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, France, Italy, United States

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