CURRENT MISSION

See as much of the world as possible before

PHILOSOPHY

Eat delicious things at every opportunity and dance until your feet hurt.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing and showing people around San Francisco.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None! But I hope to try it out soon.

Interests

water polo, music (performing and listening), digital media, dance parties, 1950s B-movies, fashion, knitting, book publishing, experimental fiction, Japanese literature

• books
• literature
• fashion
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• partying
• technology
• movies
• knitting
• music
• surfing
• water polo
• communications
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Cloud Atlas, House of Leaves, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Best American Non-Required Reading, Everything is Illuminated, Crime and Punishment, Love in the Time of Cholera, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Middlesex, The History of Love, All the King's Men, anything by Chuck Klosterman

Movies: Mothra, Bend it like Beckham, Waking Life, The Big Lebowski, Pirates of the Caribbean, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Princess Bride, Labyrinth

Music: Jens Lekman, Wilco, The Clash, Barenaked Ladies, Architecture in Helsinki, Elliott Smith, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Camera Obscura, Nina Simone, Guided by Voices, Ben Harper, Scissor Sisters, Weezer, Gogol Bordello, The Mountain Goats, Ben Folds, Ben Kweller, Dinosaur Jr., Elvis Costello, G. Love, Of Montreal, Queen

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The best decision I ever made was to spend a semester in Japan. I lived with a host family and took classes at a university. I felt accomplished every time I was able to communicate, and being there showed me how many of my assumptions about everyday life were specific to the U.S. The countryside is insanely beautiful, the cultural history is very rich, and hand-held technology blew me away.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to knit! Or if you know how to knit, how do work with multiple colors or cabling. I can also spin plates.

Cooking: Soul food (fried chicken, corn bread, etc.), Japanese comfort food.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Jamaica, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United States