CURRENT MISSION

To explore and learn.

ABOUT ME

I eat Olives almost everyday because they're my favorite food. I work at the Center for Afghanistan Studies. I like to laugh and sing and dance and play..and write manifestos when time allows. I will cook for you, I make some amazing Mostaciolli. My socks don't always match.Blue Train by John Coltrane is my theme song.

I love this Gibran quote...
You are the way and the wayfarers.
And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone.
Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone

PHILOSOPHY

I'd rather talk about this in person :) Here's a few quotes that I enjoy....

Seven times have I despised my soul:
The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain height.
The second time when I saw her limping before the crippled.
The third time when she was given to choose between the hard and the easy, and she chose the easy.
The fourth time when she committed a wrong, and comforted herself that others also commit wrong.
The fifth time when she forbore for weakness, and attributed her patience to strength.
The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.
And the seventh time when she sang a song of praise, and deemed it a virtue.

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd love to host travelers. I'm also looking for a place to stay in Budapest this summer and Cairo next year.

Interests

Philosophizing, Listening, Wondering, Wandering

• singing
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

LOVE MUSIC...
Manic Street Preachers, Bloc Party, Death From Above 1979, KRS-One, A TRibe Called Quest, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Prodigy, atombombpocketknife, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, joan baez, bob dylan, Lead Belly, Primal Scream, Dead Meadow, A.R.E. Weapons, Echo and the Bunnymen, muse, kraftwerk, Joy Division, Dungen, Moving Units, Sainte Ettiene, Soft Pink Truth, M83, Brian Jonestown Massacre, A.D.U.L.T., venetian snares, The Editors, Asian Dub Foundation, Au Revoir Simone, Venus Hum, Louis Armstrong, Gershwin, Maria Callas, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Del The Funky HomoSapien, MIA, Black Uhuru, PULP, The Chameleons, The Call, Soma Sonic, Secret Machines, Brand Nubian, Beirut, Cold War Kids, Duke Ellington, Tre Lux, Everything But The Girl, Bat For Lashes, Woody Guthrie, Tom Waits, King Crimson, Wire, Interpol, KimYa DawSon!, Digable Planets, The Robot Ate Me, Page France, BROADCAST, The Blow, Moloko, Vox Vermillion, Alias and Tarsier, Thievery Corporation, Goldfrapp, Hepcat, Bad brains, minor threat, dead kennedys, black flag, toots and the maytals, new york dolls, adam ant, angry samoans, Richard Hell, Stooges, Mc5, The Specials, Vic Ruggiero, Reverend Horton heat, the cramps, the runaways, the meteors, wanda jackson, Arctic Monkeys, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, NEW ORDER

Teach, Learn, Share

I am studying sociology and philosophy. I want to use my skills to become an ethnographer and potentially help my community. I aim to teach others to succeed.This is done through understanding, compassion and dedication which I strive to strengthen everyday through my encounters with new and diverse people.

Countries I’ve Visited

Antigua and Barbuda

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States