CURRENT MISSION

To Conquer Europe One Country At A Time

ABOUT ME

I just turned 24 and I've decided to take my dream trip to Europe. Anywhere and everywhere is game as I write and explore my way through the continent. I will be doing some online research here and there but ultimately I want to make the most of this opportunity. My best friend from college will be joining me and we plan on rocking it out.

PHILOSOPHY

Accept life and life will accept you...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am a very cultured person (or at least I like to think so) and I have such an interest in celebrating earth's natural diversity that I'll share bits of who I am with everyone as part of an ongoing cultural exchange.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've never done it before, but I have participated in similar exchanges with students in Quebec.

Interests

Literature
Film
Music (Rock, Electronica, Alternative, Genreless)
Theatre
The Arts
Writing
Oscar Wilde
Great Food
Sightseeing
Other Fun Stuff

• arts
• writing
• literature
• dining
• music
• camping
• cartography
• geography
• sightseeing

Music, Movies, and Books

Bands: I Am X, U.N.K.L.E., The Knife, CocoRosie, Sufjan Stevens, Goldfrapp, Nine Inch Nails, The Human League, Apparat, Beck, Antony and the Johnsons, Rogue Wave, Elbow, The Faint, Peaches, Fischerspooner, The Decemberists, Miss Kittin, Broken Social Scene, LCD Soundsystem, Lamb, Bloc Party, Arcade Fire... I have over 15 days of music on my computer so the list continues...

Film: Evening, Notes on a Scandal, Match Point, The Last of England, Edward II, Caravaggio, Brokeback Mountain, Owning Mahoney, The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio, O Fantasma!, Sebastiane, The Hours, Kinsey, I Heart Huckabee's, Wilde, Salome's Last Dance, The 24th Day, The Door in the Floor, Moulin Rouge, The Human Stain, Dogville, Birth, The Dreamers, Bad Education, The Woodsman, Happiness, Memento, Closer...

I'm all about the classics because I was an English Major.

Some favorite titles:
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
Querelle by Jean Genet
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Sluts by Dennis Cooper

My Current Reading List:
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
Querelle by Jean Genet
Against the Grain (A Rebours) by J.K. Huysmans
Martin Bauman; Or A Sure Thing by David Leavitt
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann
The Lord Won't Mind by Gordon Merrick
A Heiner Muller Reader
The Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil
The Reckoning by Charles Nicholl
Lovesick by Laurence Senelick
Love in a Dark Time by Colm Toibin
The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went to Space Camp outside Montreal when I was 15. I floated... yeah it was cool.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm a big fan of Jeopardy, it's amazing what one can learn. And I love geography. I've stared at maps since I was a kid with amazement. Sounds dorky I know.
I'd like to learn a lot more French on this trip than I currently know with a minor in French.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States