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Overview

  • 6 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Chinese (Simplified)
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • ESL Teacher, High school social studies teacher
  • B.A. in history, Colorado teaching licence
  • From Montpelier, VT, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION
Figuring out what's good in China.

ABOUT ME
Teaching History at a private school here in Guangzhou. For fun, I love bikes, live music, drinking beers, reading, cooking, exploring new places, and lots of other stuff. Really, I'm almost always having fun.

Ensenando historia en un escuela privada aqui en Guangzhou. A divirteme, encanto los biciletas, musica en vivo, tomar chelas, leer, cocinar, explorar llugar nuevos, y muchas otras cosas. De verdad, casi siempre estoy disfrutando la vida.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet friends, learn more about the city, and offer up a bedroom in my house.

Interests

Planet Earth. Human Kind. Permaculture. Learning. Education. Community organizing. Direct action. History. Anthropology. Education. I have a lot of interests.

  • education
  • cooking
  • beer
  • drinking
  • reading
  • music
  • live music
  • agriculture
  • anthropology
  • teaching
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

Folk punk, edm, beck, hip hop, r&b. H.P. Lovecraft, Tom Robbins, academic non-fiction. Most movies, sci-fi, documentaries.

Teach, Learn, Share

organic agriculture, spanish, natural building, history, curriculum development, cooking, academic research.

Agricultura y horticulura organica, ingles, construccion natural, historia, desarollo de curiculo, cocinar, investigacion academica.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cooking, cleaning, childcare, tutoring and homework help for youth or (adults?), handyperson skills, some carpentry and mechanics skills, and brilliant conversation of course. I'm happy to help out however I can.

Cocinar, limpiar, cuiada a los niños, clases de ingles, ayuda con tareas academicos, mantienamiento o mozo, y conversacion brillante, por su puesto. Me allegre de ayudar como puedo.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Spain, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, Turkey, United States

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