CURRENT MISSION

To make the globe smaller...and to have a good time while doing it, and to impress someone with my breakfast potatoes

ABOUT ME

I once got paid good money to choreograph a dance (longer story available upon request). I really enjoy meeting new people and hearing their stories. I would love to meet positive people who just want to have a good time and a new experience. My story: I teach high school English--love the job, just don't like grading papers. But I'm around high school kids all the time (and then I coach high schoolers on top of that)--it keeps me young. I have a good sense of humor, compare everything in life to the TV show Seinfeld, love sports, good art (all literature, paintings, whatever), and I love the ocean.

PHILOSOPHY

Treat people with kindness and respect, and have fun in the process

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

The couch is open...I live a block from the beach, the weather is always nice here in Southern California. I'd be willing to show you around a little too, depending on the time of the year. November through May I am pretty busy--this is when I am teaching and coaching at the same time, but there is always time to help out a CSer.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

They've all been good--all the people I have met from here have been wonderful, down to earth, educated...it's a good group.

Interests

God, sports, Seinfeld, poetry, writing, reading, road trips, karaoke, love to dance, cheap puns, cheap drinks, cheap chicks (just kidding), Hawaii, The Pacific Ocean, Nebraska and Nebraska football, Dodger baseball, taking idiotic pictures of myself

• arts
• writing
• literature
• poetry
• dancing
• environment
• breakfast
• coach
• drinking
• reading
• tv
• karaoke
• sports
• baseball
• soccer
• road trips
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Any Steinbeck, Catch-22, Any Shakespeare, various poetry, Catcher in the Rye, Three Cups of Tea, A Long Way Gone, Slaughterhouse-5, Cry the Beloved Country, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Color of Water, Game of Shadows, many more...
Music: Anything I can dance to
Movies: The Karate Kid, Back to the Future, Shawshank Redemption, Traffic, Out of Sight, Field of Dreams

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Half-Dome in Yosemite was pretty awesome.

Teach, Learn, Share

We are judged on how we maintain with our relationships with others, and our relationship with nature. Nothing else really matters. I think God expects us to be nice to one another, and to our environment, and that's what makes us good.

Countries I’ve Visited

Italy, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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