CURRENT MISSION

This too shall pass.

ABOUT ME

I think humans are really interesting. I like to talk about how people work (ie, mind, body, ego, etc...), social issues, language, culture, food, child-development and education. I love long thought provoking discussions. I travel to experience the things I like to talk about. I believe in the power of community and a production rather than consumption based life-style.

PHILOSOPHY

"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
--Albert Camus

"People are just people, like you."
--Regina Spektor

Okay I stole my "personal philosophies" from other people, but they just say it better.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My best CouchSurfing experience was in Flagstaff, AZ. My host took my friend and I on a great adventure. It included trespassing and swimming across a creek and then ended in the largest bathtub you will ever see w/ lemon meringue pie and a game of speed Candyland.

Interests

LIVING. community. freedom. Storytelling. art. culture. travel. books. FILMS. food. languages. writing. exploring. experiencing new things. tea. thrill. reading. creating. painting. cooking. babies. coffee. fair trade. free market. organic. human rights. higher self. learning. beautiful things: a great line from a book. a revelation. rain while the sun is shining. laughter after an impossible day.

• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• film making
• education
• human rights
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• swimming
• teaching
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES:
Harold and Maude. Playing by Heart. Waiting Guaffman. The Constant Gardner. City of God (anything by Fernando Meirelles). The Battle of Algiers. Ingmar Bergman films. Anything by Ross McElwee. Ameile. Empire Records. Almost Famous. High Fidelity. Stay. Little Miss Sunshine. Away We Go, Gigantic, Babel. The English Patient, Peter Jackson films. Woddy Allen films, especially Manhattan and Vicky Christina Barcelona...

BOOKS:
Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooling life. Redefining Relationships, The Ethical Slut. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Into the Wild. Anything by: David Sedaris. J.R.R. Tolkien. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Radical Homemakers by Shannon Hayes. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Teach, Learn, Share

I would love to learn how to play the cello or ukulele, I want to learn more languages, especially: Arabic, Thai and Portuguese, I am always interested in discussing education and film making. I have experience in French, film making, food, libraries, unschooling and childcare.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, France, United States