CURRENT MISSION

do what I love, travel when I can, share what I have

ABOUT ME

I've lived and studied in North America and Europe. I love to travel: I feel so much more awake and alive in unfamiliar environments.

PHILOSOPHY

Ludwig Wittgenstein. Seriously. I wrote my doctorate on him!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I joined CS before travelling around Iran in the spring of 2013. The hospitality was so warm and generous that I'd love to do my best to show similar hospitality to people passing through my neck of the woods. I'm no Iranian, but I'll try.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Not a whole lot: just surfing around Iran and a little bit of hosting.

Interests

theatre, hiking, travel, music, friendship, laughter

• writing
• acting
• cooking
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: things I've loved range from Star Wars to Tarantino to Haneke

Music: I lean toward folk and indie as well as classical but with a broad range. Favourites include The Mountain Goats, the Beach Boys, Elliott Smith, and Glenn Gould playing Bach

Books: Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Chekhov, Dostoevsky... gosh, that sounds very pretentious, but really, I'm not super serious.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went skinny dipping in the Arctic Ocean.

Teach, Learn, Share

I teach philosophy for a living, but I'm also happy to talk about it for free. I'm also very interested in theatre and know a bit about acting and play writing. I like cooking, but I'm not the first person you should try to learn from. I speak decent French and German and a bit of Russian.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States

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