CURRENT MISSION

the more ways of understanding, as many as sand grains or land waves

ABOUT ME

I'm Ed. I'm 27 and currently living in Milwaukee, WI with my girlfriend Maggie in a nice apartment on the Southside. I returned to the states in July 2012 after four years of teaching English at a university in Lille, France, and I've been working odd jobs and teaching ever since.

I grew up in Alabama and Florida and went to Florida State University where I studied music, history (american and middle eastern), and french. I'm open, easy going, and try not to take myself too seriously (unless we're talking about the way the world works and our place and duty in it as human beings). I try to give all people the benefit of the doubt, and I like people and joking around and sharing stories!

Milwaukee is a fun city, Maggie and I would be happy to show you around!

Je suis Ed, j'ai 27 ans et j'habite actuellement à Milwaukee, Wisconsin aux states. Je viens de passer 4 ans à Lille, France, où j’enseignais l’anglais à l'IUT de l’Université Lille 1. Je viens d’Alabama et de la Floride, et à l’université en Floride j’ai etudié (parmi autres choses!) l’histoire (spécialité Etats Unis et Moyen Orient), la musique, et le francais. J’aime bien discuter de l’actualité, de politique, de musique, de l'histoire… : D

PHILOSOPHY

You snooze, you lose... unless it's a sleeping contest (Stephen Colbert)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

uA couch to offer, good conversation, some movies, and/or some drinks!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted and surfed several times, always a good experience. : )

Interests

music, books, cooking, eating, good movies (I guess TV is the big medium now, we like our shows too :) ), good company, socializing, socialism, playing percussion/marimba

• books
• festivals
• cooking
• drinking
• movies
• tv
• socializing
• music
• drums
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: valse avec bashir, persepolis, memento, children of men, the shining, chinatown, waking life, la bataille d'algers, delicatessin, la haine, ne le dis a personne, dr. zhivago, american psycho, the big lebowski, woody allen, good documentaries

music: belle & sebastian, the books, radiohead, candy claws, dirty projectors, grizzly bear, wilco, the new pornographers, silver jews, animal collective, john vanderslice, of montreal, beirut, bjork, the walkmen, american music club, broken social scene, yo la tengo, the beatles, talking heads, de la soul, schwantner, ravel, debussy, stravinsky, steve reich

books by folks like: salman rushdie, chomsky, camus, fanon, vonnegut, dostoevsky, sartre, arthur miller, kerouac, gary snyder, bukowski, wallace stevens, assia djebar.

recent good reads: harry potter 7(!!), Breakfast of Champions

currently reading: Le chat qui n'était pas là (an awesome mystery story about Koko and Yom Yom, two siamese cats who are about to solve some crimes; for practicing my french!!)

adbusters and mother jones and middle east report are cool too...

I love new things in all these categories.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Primavera sound music festival in Barcelona 2011 !!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach english, french, history, how to play drums, and how to cook what I know how to cook... I'd like to learn spanish, practice my arabic, and learn how to cook loads of new things!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States

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