I'm Ish. I was voted, "best person to get stranded in an airport terminal with" by my med school (seriously), so, yeah.

I'm extremely chill, very easy going, very patient, very open-minded. I believe bad experiences help you appreciate good ones. I see most things in shades of gray instead of absolutes

I've worked a number of jobs in my life and I consider myself pretty well rounded: Carpenter, pharm lab researcher, bartender, a Kaplan MCAT instructor. I've taught English in China (I don't speak Mandarin, so this was a challenge), built water lines in Honduras, and provided health care in India.

Now, I'm working on becoming a doctor. I just graduated from medical school and will start residency in July 2017. What I love about studying medicine is that it is a lifelong learning experience; there is always more to learn because our understanding of it is very fluid and it is always changing and growing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am backpacking through Europe and can't think of a better way to meet people. But this is probably the only time in the near or distant future I will have enough time off to backpack, and I need to make the most of it! Although I plan to use hostels, it will be really nice to have one on one interactions with people who are immersed in the culture and the world I am exploring.

Interests

I love making people laugh. I love traveling, exploring, experimenting, cooking, yoga, discovering new music, spending hours on Wikipedia, watching movies, playing video games, gardening, enjoying craft beers, dancing, going to music festivals

Music, Movies, and Books

I listen to Electronic, indie, trip hop, house, electro, blues, folk, jazz but specifically...

Electronic: Pretty Lights, Flume, 20syl, Odesza, Bassnectar, Bonobo, Moderat, George Fitzgerald, Kygo, Break Science, Mimosa, Vicetone, Matoma, Bakermat, Diplo, Major Lazer, Justice, Justin Martin, STS9, Royksopp, Moby, Goldfish, Claude VonStroke, Apparat, Trentmoller, Romare, Booka Shade, Four Tet, Darkside, Nicholas Jaar

Rock/Indie/Electro rock: Phantogram, Ghostland Observatory, Sbtrkt, Sylvan Esso, Glass Animals, Crystal Castles, Purity Ring, Alt-J, TV On the Radio, Chromeo, Jungle, The Black Keys, Gary Clark Jr, Santigold, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MuteMath, The Heavy, Hot Chip, Metric, MGMT, Tune-yards, Temper Trap, Foster the People, Naked and Famous, Cut Copy, M83, Miike Snow, Broken Bells, Fleet Foxes, Bombay Bicycle Club, Lotus, Lettuce, String Cheese Incident, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, CCR, The Who.

Triphop/Chill/Idk: Zero 7, Thievery Corporation, Tycho, Emancipator, RJD2, Air, Massive Attack, Rob Dougan, Morcheeba, Boards of Canada

Rap: 2Pac, Biggie, Aesop Rock, Cunninglynguist, Dead Prez, Common, Dr. Dre, Masta Ace, Wutang, Outkast, People Under the Stairs.

Jazz: Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Benny Goodman, Sonny Rollins

Classical: Mostly modern composers, Max Richter, Phillip Glass, Hans Zimmer.

Movies: Anything by Wes Anderson (in my defense, I have watched Wes Anderson since Bottle Rocket) The Life Aquatic is my favorite movie. Anything by Joss Whedon. Anything by Christopher Nolan. Anything by Richard Linklater.

TV: Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Attack on Titan, Daredevil, House of Cards, Broad City, Adventure Time, Hannibal, Broad Church, Game of Thrones, Westworld, Narcos

Books: The Road, but really anything by Cormac McCarthy, Life of Pi, The Doors of Perception, Song of Fire and Ice Series, HP series, Into Thin Air, The Things They Carried. Deborah Digges is a poet who moves me to the core.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went on a pilgrimage up the Himalayas to a temple at 16,000 ft

What I Can Share with Hosts

yoga buddy
drinking buddy
Conversation
Food
Wine
Music

Countries I’ve Visited

Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, China, Dominica, England, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, India, Japan, Martinique, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Dominica, United States