I'm a free person, or try to be.

I love to explore and spend time outdoors. The world fascinates me and I'm almost never bored. I really really like tea, coffee, and spicy foods. I'm proud to be a nerd! Baking bread relaxes me more than about anything else. I might be the worst photographer in Lexington. I like to do jiu jitsu or climb and then come home and write bad poetry!

I've been travelling the world teaching English for the past four years.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like to meet new people and have adventures with them :)

Interests

Hiking, MMA, Reading, Cooking, Writing, Science and Science Fiction, Tea, Drawing.

• writing
• books
• cooking
• running
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• woodworking
• survival
• hiking
• trail running
• boxing
• wrestling
• rock climbing
• jiu jitsu
• chemistry
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Punk is my fave, but I also like Hip-Hop, Classical, Country, and Techno.

I like making playlists about historical people/events/for my travels. Black Flag next to Tupac, Toby Keith beside Bela Bartok. Disney Songs between Die Antwoord and Arcade Fire.

Movies: Kontroll, The Dark Knight, Spirited Away, Underground, Fight Club, Team America, Eurotrip, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Reds, Titanic, FLCL, Wolf's Rain, American History X, Russian Ark, Enemy at the Gates, Lord of the Rings, Samurai Champloo, A Little Princess, Aliens, Disturbing Behavior, Uprising, American Beauty, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, the Rock, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dr. Zhivago, Princess Mononoke, Szabasag Szerelem, Seven Samurai, Idi I Smotri, They Live, Downfall, Animatrix, Kingdom of Heaven.

Books. The Once and Future King, The Monkey Wrench Gang, Harry Potter, LotR, the Illuminatus Trilogy, Les Miserables, the Golden Compass, Wayside School is Falling Down, Persepolis, Flight, House of Leaves, Iain Banks, Walter Mosely, Stephen King, Haruki Murakami, Chuck Palahniuk, H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, Langston Hughes, Robert B. Parker, 1940's Detective Novels.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

All of it. I'm just glad to be alive.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
Shuffle cards!
Bake bread!
Do carpentry!

Learn:
Gardening (people put me in charge of roomfulls of children, and I can't even keep a plant alive XP)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can teach you to shuffle cards :)
If I'm free, I can show you caving, climbing, and hiking spots around Kentucky!

Countries I’ve Visited

Spain, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Georgia, Hungary, Japan, United States