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Overview

  • 6 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Chinese, Spanish
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Rock Climber, Hosteler Extrodinare
  • No education listed
  • From San Bruno, California, USA
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Get inspiration from traveling.

PHILOSOPHY

I live my life to experience as much thrill as possible. I live for every millisecond of life, that's why sitting in class is unbearable.

Interests

- Reading
- Rock Climbing
- Writing junky poetry
- Getting lost in cities.

  • writing
  • literature
  • poetry
  • reading
  • traveling
  • rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Amelie, Eternal Sunshine, Dogma, Star Wars, A League of Their Own
Music: Big D and the Kids Table, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Kanye West, Talib Kweli, Lupe Fiasco, Iron and Wine, A Tribe Called Quest, Stars, Justice, Daft Punk, Less Than Jake, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Arctic Monkeys
Books: The Great Gatsby, The Corrections, Catcher in the Rye, Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, The Stranger, The Plague, Fight Club, other postmodern crap.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked up to the Great Wall of China. Simply amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know how to rock climb moderately well and I know my way around the vertical world. I can criticize literature but can only write immature poetry.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United Kingdom, United States

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