CURRENT MISSION

Travel, learn, enjoy life

ABOUT ME

Native of the Pacific Northwest of the US. Recently returned stateside after 7 years living abroad. I regularly travel for work and I'm always down to grab a drink and connect.

I live to learn. I enjoy being in nature, listening to people talk about their life experiences, having conversations about every part of the human experience whether it be sociological, political, philosophical, religious, or artistic. I enjoy being challenged.

PHILOSOPHY

"You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation." ~Johnnetta Cole

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

"...the universe itself is conscious in a way we can never truly understand. It is engaged in a search for meaning, so it breaks itself apart, investing its own consciousness in every form of life. We are the universe, trying to explain itself." - Ambassador Delenn

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To make connections.

I will make extra effort to host people who are displaced based on the political situation in their home country or LGBTQ refugees who need support getting settled in the U.S.

Spanish or Arabic tutors looking for a rent-for-tutoring situation are also welcome.

Interests

Conversation, philosophy, food, religion, foreign cultures, languages, politics/international affairs, music, film, I want to learn a lot more about art.

• arts
• books
• dining
• politics
• traveling
• investing
• music
• economics
• history
• international relations
• languages
• religion
• sustainable development

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Une Prophete, Kilometer Zero, El sexo de los ángeles, I Heart Huckabee, Darjeeling Ltd, Black Hawk Down, Love Actually,
TV: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Star Trek, Rick and Morty
Music: Beatles, Of Montreal, The Decemberists, Mashrou Leila, Crystal Castle, Beirut.
Books: Colossus - Niall Ferguson; The Teachings of Buddha; The Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Foer; L'Étranger - Camus; The Way Out - Christopher Nutter; The Pentagons New Map - Thomas P.M. Barnett; Nietzsche, Machiavelli; Philosophy, religion, history, autobiography.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Backpacked Colombia

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: English, what I can.
Learn: Spanish, Arabic, French, Urdu. About what it's like to live where you live with all of your experiences. Art,I want to learn and see and experience more creativity.
Share: Whatever I can.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Whatever I have.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Colombia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Philippines, United States

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