CURRENT MISSION

To be where I am and soak up all that beautiful life juice

ABOUT ME

I guess the mission statement goes a long way towards explaining my wee existence, but here is some more filler. I’ve been going to school since I was 5 and am now 29, now finally getting paid a tupance while I learn. In the meantime I have been traveling every chance I get. I have spent most of my infrequent breaks in South East Asia but have also passed some time in Europe and Central America. I just returned from a year in South America, 6mo traveling/6mo working. I love to keep moving, mentally and physically, and traveling does that to me. Alaska, my birthplace, has its tendrils sunken deep, but, I am here now, and I love this town and its people more by the day, and have given trying to predict where I'll end up. I love what I do, what I will do in the future, and the fact that I don’t entirely know what that is yet.

Life is funny! I hope I never lose sight of that.

Music is very important to me. Unfortunately, however, the ratio of my music appreciation skills to my music creation skills is imposing, to say the least. I love to to dance, despite the right angles in my knee joints.

Life is good, and despite what you may hear, it’s getting better. This site is a perfect example of that.

Apparently I also like using the word ‘I’ to kick of a sentence.

PHILOSOPHY

Viktor Frankl has this amazing physics vector that I have modified and embraced as a more tangible embodiment of my belief in intelligent optimism. I'd love to talk about it if you are interested.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Can host most of the time, surf a couple times per year

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Some great surfing experiences, have not had a chance to house much yet

Interessen

Anything in the mountains or on snow; anything on two wheels especially racing through rollercoaster city streets, tears streaming down my face, dodging cars, and howling at the moon; meeting people for 24 hours on a bridge in Lao or an abandoned building in Bolivia and knowing their soul better than that of an old friend; books that don't contain the word peristalsis; drawing; playing the guitar (badly); singing (badly); undeserved medicine; immigration health; single payer healthcare policy reform; peanut butter; chickens and eggs w/ fatty orange yolks that mirror the sun

• chickens
• books
• singing
• dancing
• traveling
• cars
• socializing
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• surfing
• skiing
• snowboarding
• medicine
• neuroscience
• physics
• mountains

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Movies: Little Miss Sunshine, The Big Lebowski, Amélie, Pan's Labyrinth, Let the Right One In, Motorcycle Diaries, Rushmore and most Wes Anderson
Music: Andrew Bird, The Mountain Goats, Iron and Wine, tUnE-YarDs, Sufjan Stevens, Neil Young, Saul Williams,THE ARCADE FIRE, The Beatles, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Portishead, lady lamb the beekeeper, Gypsy Kings, Rentals, Wolf Parade, Immortal Technique, The Rachels, Dirty Projectors
Books: East of Eden, almost anything by Vonnegut, God of Small Things, Dave Eggars, sometimes Tom Robbins, J. Saffron Jr, Guns Germs and Steel, Chaos, lately, angelas ashes and Grapes of Wrath

Lehren, lernen, teilen

Teach: I love teaching about (western) medicine and neuroscience, i could teach someone to x-country ski, snowboard, and I can pretend to be knowledgeable about any number of other subjects. See if you can guess which are bullshit and which are real!

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Laos, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

Ecuador, United States

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