CURRENT MISSION

under construction

ABOUT ME

I study comparative literature at the University of Texas. I've worked as a ghostwriter, led wilderness trips, taught spanish and english literature, studied in Jerusalem and Buenos Aires, recently walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Now I am settling down in Austin, learning french and Texas two-step.

PHILOSOPHY

To be marvellously yourself like the river water
Gerald of wales says flows in arklow harbour
Even at high tide when you'd expect salt water.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I don't have a couch right now, but I am happy to show you around my city and I am ever-grateful to you for introducing me to yours.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My first couchsurfing host in Vienna was wonderful and now I think it's the only way to travel. I love meeting couchsurfers in my hometown. And I am excited to get on the road again!

兴趣

Theoretical discourse, live music, the open sea. boats. basses. tree identification. obscure talents. comic relief. awkward interaction. adventure. adrenaline. bicycles.

• literature
• singing
• boating
• clothing
• traveling
• music
• live music
• sailing
• rowing

音乐、电影和书籍

I love: borges, kafka, nicole krauss, fellini, almodovar, bolano, andres segovia, mahler, bob dylan, the beatles, po' girl, and anything new.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

On the penobscot river in Maine, I saw a dragonfly nymph become a dragonfly.

教，学，和分享

We were all hard at it in the boat
Some of us up tightening sail,
Some down at the heave and haul
Of the rowing benches, deeply cargoed,
Steady keeled, our passage silent,
The helmsman buoyant at the helm;
And I, who took it all for granted,
Sang to the sailors.
Then turbulent
Sudden wind, a mealstrom:
The helmsman and the sailors perished.
Only I, Still singing, washed
Ashore by the long sea-swell, sing on,
A mystery to my poet self,
And safe and sound beneath a rock shelf
Have spread my wet clothes in the sun.

- pushkin/ tr. heaney

我游览过的国家

Argentina, Austria, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Jordan, Spain, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands, U.S.

我居住过的国家

Israel, United States