ABOUT ME

Grew up in new hampshire (a small state in the northeast of the US)

Moved to montreal to go to college

Now live in Oakland, CA and work as a high school teacher

Traveling and studying in Europe this summer

PHILOSOPHY

I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and
never will be measured.

I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!)
My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods,
No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,
I have no chair, no church, no philosophy,
I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange,
But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
My left hand hooking you round the waist,
My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road.

Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
You must travel it for yourself.

It is not far, it is within reach,
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know,
Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land.

-Walt Whitman

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfed a few times while I was abroad in college, hosted a couple times when I was living in Montreal and now I'm looking to surf yet again while I'm traveling in Europe.

Interests

I'm a vegetarian and love to share meals, but understand it as my choice

• literature
• poetry
• cooking
• vegetarian
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• rock climbing
• radical politics

Music, Movies, and Books

Poetry and especially 20th century american poetry, Critical Theory, literature in general

Herzog, Wes Anderson, Cohen brothers, Godard, Jarmusch and again many others

music...I couldn't even begin to compile a list, it would never be complete, but genre wise I like folk, indie, punk, soul, rock, hip hop, bluegrass among others