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Overview

  • 2 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Japanese, Spanish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Forever a student. Small Business Manager/ Part owner
  • Back in College but am in no hurry. I hope to take one cl...
  • From Buffalo, New York USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Be happy and share it! Aside from that I guess I'm really still searching for a clear cut mission yet, I see no hurry and maybe there is no mission to be found.

ABOUT ME

I have a go with the flow attitude, I get along with nearly everyone, I love listening to music and reading a good book. I was once big into the electronic music scene and need to find something to fill that void(though I do still Party). I think like many people on this site, I love to travel and learn about new cultures and experience all the flavors life has to offer. I hope to move to Asia to teach English with-in the next year or so. I moved around a lot growing up and hope to continue to do so.

PHILOSOPHY

Breath in ......Breath out, the rest will take care of itself.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've joined a couple groups and am happy to host as well as surf.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've had many non-CS.org associated surfs and have host friends and friends of friends on many occasions. I just recently stayed at a fellow CS'ers place though we met through a mutual friend. I look forward to updating this after my trip to Tokyo. I hope, with some positive experiences!!!

Interests

My interests are always changing but I love to travel, meet new people, see new places. Of course I also enjoy spending time with old friends, partying or just relaxing, playing chess and listening to music. Recently I've taken up Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Thai-boxing. I would love to learn to surf, skydive, base-Jump etc. On an off weekend I like going to a museum , a zoo, nature-hike or anything that keeps my life fresh. I try to go to a few outdoor music festivals each year and used to be really into the electronic music scene but sort of got tired of it all though, I still get out to a club now and again to dance my @$$ off and keep the blood flowing. At the moment I'm most interested in finding some new interests.

  • books
  • music festivals
  • festivals
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • walking
  • partying
  • clubbing
  • chess
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • electronic music
  • outdoor activities
  • hiking
  • skydiving
  • boxing
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

(Not a movie but TED Talks needed to be on the list) Movies: Waking Life, Memento, Good Will Hunting, Avatar, Catch Me If You Can, Gandhi, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pi, Matrix, Requiem for a Dream, American Beauty, Blood Diamond, Searching for Bobby Fisher, Fight Club, Good Morning Vietnam, and I'm sure I'm forgetting many more.
Music: I live with my headphones on so, this would take far too long to list individual artists but I will try to list a few artist that have been on my most played list in the last few weeks, which aren't necessarily my favorite but I do like. Radio Head, Imogen Heap, Postal Service, Lamb, Bjork, Roni Size, Ltj Bukem, 2pac, Nas, Eminem, Akir, Living Legends, Buena Vista Social Club, Four Tet, Deep Forrest, Shanghai Restoration Project, Tibetan Chants, Tabla Beat Science, Bob Marley, Ben Harper, Sublime, Miles Davis, Bonobo, ATB, STS9, Pink Floyd, etc, etc.
Books: Ishmael, My Ishmael, Story Of B, Mr. Nice, Consciousness Explained, The art of Happiness, Art & Physics-Parallel Visions in Space and Time, Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance, Reason at Work, The Republic, The Illiad, The Economic Hit Man, The Monk and the Philosopher. Socrate's Cafe, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and bunch of dry science n Philosophy books that no gives a $#!+ about And the list goes on...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hard to chose just one thing. Seeing the Mountains and endless skies in Chang Mai, Walking through the Angkor Wat Temples. The Sunset over the Ocean in Puerto Rico. Even Just looking out the window for the first time in any new City is always an extremely exiting experience for me. Meeting extraordinary people from all over the world is always a highlight of any trip.

Teach, Learn, Share

Happy to help teach you English and what Spanish I can remember. Looking to learn Japanese. Happy to help out anyway I can, cooking, cleaning etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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