CURRENT MISSION

See the world! And grow up, but not too much.

ABOUT ME

I'm student and traveler from the San Francisco Bay Area (California, USA). I studied Politics and Arabic at UCLA, but I'm doing my real learning here in Damascus. I've lived here for a year now. I love traveling and I really want to see the world. I've been on Couchsurfing.com for a couple of years and I'm really interested in meeting some new people and seeing some new things. My Arabic is getting better every day, but it seems to be replacing my Spanish. An unfortunate turn of events. No matter what the language though, I'm excited, outgoing, and very willing to try new things... like brains, stomach lining, and tongue all in the same night in Istanbul.

PHILOSOPHY

"I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I haven't."

Those aren't my words, but I try to live by them.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I love couchsurfing. I've met some really incredible people that went from strangers to friends in just a short time.

Interests

Music, Baseball, Football, College Athletics, Skiing, Scuba Diving, IM Sports, Speaking Arabic

• politics
• traveling
• music
• scuba diving
• skiing
• sports
• baseball
• soccer
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

Prince, George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelik, James Brown, Maceo, Earth Wind and Fire, Morris Day and the Time, Tower of Power, Xzibit, Eminem, Cake, Dre and Snoop, OutKast, Sublime, Stevie, Aretha, Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cooke, Michael Jackson

Movies:

Dr. Strangelove, The Rock, Goldfinger, Dumb and Dumber, The Mask, Kill Bill, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective I&II, any Monty Python movies, the Evil Dead movies, anything directed by the Cohen Brothers

Books:

Fast Food Nation, Downsize This, Stupid White Men, Roots, The Sound of Waves, And Then There Were None, The Shining, Misery, Different Seasons, Harold and the Purple Crayon

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I watched a turtle come ashore to lay its eggs on a completely deserted beach in the Sultanate of Oman.

•