CURRENT MISSION

Travel and meet new people in my free time

ABOUT ME

I love learning new languages and I read all the time. (Mostly non-fiction.) I take a lot of pictures, even in my home town when I'm not traveling because I use the pictures to document my life instead of a journal.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe we should all follow the Golden Rule, but I also mourn the fact that following the Golden Rule yourself does not guarantee that others will follow it as well.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven't yet surfed on anyone's couch through this website but I have traveled a fair amount. (See profile photos.)

Interests

Taking pictures, hiking, socializing, exploring, conversing for hours, eating, drinking, swimming, sitting, sleeping

• traveling
• socializing
• hiking
• swimming
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
-Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
-City of God (Cidade de Deus)
-Amores Perros
-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
-Network
-Goodfellas
-There Will Be Blood
-Inception
-Requiem for a Dream
etc, etc.

Music:
-Madlib
-Nas
-Abdelhaleem Hafez
-MF Doom
-Arcade Fire
-Pixies
-La Rue Ketanou
-Grizzly Bear
-The Decemberists
-Fairouz
etc, etc.

Books:
-Lawrence in Arabia
-No Good Men Among the Living (Anand Gopal)
-The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
-The Sirens of Baghdad (Yasmina Khadra)
There are many many more but I don't feel like writing anymore

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Egypt, France, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United States