CURRENT MISSION

Preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS by making and giving away free prevention education videos

ABOUT ME

Friends say that I'm intelligent, honest, hard-working, patient, creative, a good listener, a decent cook, good conversation around the dinner table, and pretty funny with a mischievous sense of humor!

PHILOSOPHY

I believe in honesty, freedom of choice, and keeping your promises. It's a libertarian personal philosophy. I'm a Christian of the love, faith and grace oriented persuasion (not the self-proclaimed judgmental types one sometimes encounters), so I also believe in the Golden Rule (treat others as you would like them to treat you), and the Social Gospel (love your neighbor as you love yourself). People of other faiths and nonbelievers are welcome to stay of course!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Just getting started now. I'm thinking about hosting a "Couchsurfers Against HIV/AIDS" meeting at a coffee house where people fluent in other languages can meet and work on translating scripts into their own language.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Just started. So far, very impressed with the number of community groups!

Interests

I love skiing! It's my great exercise passion. I love reading, traveling, and watching moves. I spend a lot of time making scientifically and medically accurate HIV/AIDS prevention education videos for my not-for-profit project http://www.AIDSvideos.org, which is part of the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Global Lifeworks. We're always looking for new volunteers to translate scripts into other languages, by the way! If you have native fluency in a language other than English and want to help fight HIV/AIDS, volunteer to translate a script into your own language! This project has enabled me to work with wonderful volunteers all around the world. I also love travel, especially to places with different languages and cultures than my own and historic preserved architecture.

• fish
• architecture
• education
• cooking
• coffee
• exercise
• reading
• traveling
• fishing
• snorkeling
• skiing
• communications
• teaching
• languages
• software
• volunteering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Lawrence of Arabia; Picture Book of Sei Shonagon; Apollo 13; Alien; Aliens; Blade Runner

Music: 80s music

Books: Bible; Boundaries; Mountains Beyond Mountains; Soul of a New Machine;

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1) seeing the snow on the mountains in Lake Tahoe on New Year's Eve illuminated by the moonlight
2) on a day at Point Reyes with 70 mile per hour incoming winds from offshore, seeing vertical curtains of mist being ripped off the top of the waves by the wind and illuminated by the setting sun from behind, creating an amazing rainbow effect
3) the first time I've gone snorkeling on a living reef with fish, and every time since then

Teach, Learn, Share

Software product management. Social media marketing. Video filming and editing. HIV/AIDS prevention education. Japanese.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Northern Mariana Islands, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United States

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