CURRENT MISSION

learn to teach, learn French, consume joyfully

ABOUT ME

I spend a lot of time bouncing around in my own head. I sure like to listen and read and interrupt and resume listening

PHILOSOPHY

follow the people I admire and the paths that seem to have worked for others, take a lot of low-risk experiments, adjust for prior mistakes

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I try not to embarrass myself

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Very pleasant! I have liked hosts who engage and observe frankly and guests who r nice. I have had hosts who were much better prepared and more hospitable than I am

Interests

beauty, biographies of ordinary and extraordinary people, mechanics, politics, language, jokes, songs, storytime, friendship, the eternal

• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

classical, rock n' roll, rap, blues, reggae/dancehall, reggae/soul, soul, old school r&b, most anything with prominent drums and smooth female vocals

on my current trip i have loved books called orlando, a book of common prayer, and the joke as well as some children's books in espanol with great pictures of clouds and dinosuars

fletch, spies like us, coming to america, the talented mr. ripley, an affair to remember, igby goes down, pump up the volume, a river runs through it, funny people

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

hanggliding, seeing bodies of people passed away

Teach, Learn, Share

youtube.com is a tremendous resource for learning processes and skills

google has a powerful automatic web page translator tool and, given the number of people writing blogs without the litany of requisite obstacles implicit in traditional publishing, there's probably already some indian or chinese guy writing more entertainingly than sallinger or shakespeare or whoever you like banging out ideas readable at cost in the language of your choice!

What I Can Share with Hosts

peanut butter, money, a strong back

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Spain, United States