CURRENT MISSION

Start the world-wide Dance Dance Revolution

ABOUT ME

I am a 24 year old student at The Evergreen State College (Yes the "The" is actually part of the name - how pompous and ridiculous is that?!) where I'm working to get my degree in history so that I can teach High School level History. I'm getting married to a lovely young Canadian woman (June of '08). Oohh!!! Looking forward to it but I hate the paperwork for immigration right now. I love to read, listen to folk music, etc.

PHILOSOPHY

Never let your schooling get in the way of your education - Mark Twain

It's important to treat people like people and to love them and respect them for who they are. Doesn't mean you have to like everything they do or tip-toe around issues all the time but respecting their space and understanding that THEY HAVE PLENTY TO TEACH ME NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Come fall of this year I'll have my own place at which time I hope to have any old person (groups of people, throngs...hoards?) crash. Until that time I'd have to run it by my current roommates but I'll try and if you can't get a place here in Olympia shoot me a message anyway and I'll help you find a place one way or another

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Failed to find a couch to surf and ended up sleeping in a little hobo camp in south London. Crashed on plenty of friends couches.

Interests

Books, bikes, folk music, meeting interesting people, stories, following Jesus and learning to loving people who passionately disagree with me.

• books
• dancing
• education
• running
• music
• folk music
• camping
• teaching
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Bible, In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin, Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, White Fang by Jack London, Coraline by Niel Gaiman, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., American Labor Struggles by Samuel Yellen, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson, Free People: A Christian Response to Global Economics by Trisha Gates Brown, The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor, Homegrown by bell hooks and Amelia Mesa-Banes, Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, Gypsies by Jan Yoors, The Chomsky Quartet

Music: Over the Rhine, Tom Waits, Billy Bragg, Wilco, Sufjan Stevens, The Nightwatchman, Utah Phillips, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Dar Williams, David Rovics, Ani Difranco, The Psalters, Saul Williams, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, Modest Mouse, Broken Social Scene (and the rest of the Arts and Crafts Collective), mewithoutYou, Mae, Balkan Beat Box and Crass

Movies: The Host, Street Fight, Breaking Away, Touching the Void, Half Nelson, Manufacturing Consent, The Take, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Soylent Green, Matewan, Manufactured Landscapes, Pan's Labyrinth and Little Miss Sunshine

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I worked at an industrial construction firm for 4 months working 80+ hrs a week so that I could pay for college. I put up wind turbans (yeah green energy!) and had to climb a 250ft ladder just to get to my workspace and was nearly pulled out the back of one by a run away cable!

Teach, Learn, Share

Card games (I hope that if I stay at your place that we'll get a chance to play)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States