CURRENT MISSION

To open an oceanfront B&B with a guacamole kitchen... and a corgi sanctuary

ABOUT ME

I spend a lot of time on a figurative treadmill. I am learning to perfect my Italian cooking skills. Salmoreja is something I wish I could cook. I really hate working with raw meat, but man do I love pork products. My mission in museums is to pick out the one object that I would steal if I were a cat thief.

PHILOSOPHY

I enjoy the following: Parallel Parking, pretending that I don't normally back into dumpsters while parallel parking, free lunches, free t-shirts, Netflixing, baby pandas, talking and eating at the same time but doing neither particularly quickly, exact change, Diet Coke, ginger (the flower, the spice, the Fred Astaire partner... but mostly the flower), carmelizing (candy, onions, etc.), lactase enzyme, tropical foliage/flowers/temperatures, running safely, double chins, eccentric candleholders, diasporas, flipping eggs without a spatula, snowboarding terribly, snorkeling and scuba diving, vaccinating people, family parties in the shed, swahinglish, talking about really nasty infectious diseases

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've gone to a couple of CS events around the world and would really love to host, when I'm around.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

CSed with friends in Ecuador, Tanzania, Tunisia, London, and Hong Kong.

Interests

I spend a lot of time backpack travelling. When I'm tied down to student life, I love running, making wild messes while cooking, and grabbing coffee with friends. I LOVE Woody Allen movies and quirky old romantic movies. I suppose my thoughts generally wander into global health equity...

• cats
• cooking
• coffee
• dieting
• running
• partying
• flowers
• movies
• traveling
• backpacking
• scuba diving
• snorkeling
• snowboarding

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Passage to India, To Kill a Mockingbird, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Miller, James Herriot, Schweitzer's Out of My Life and Thoughts, E.M. Forster, Howard's End, Maurice, Where Angels Fear to Tread, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez; The Long Road to Freedom

Movies: Pan's Labyrinth, crazy Fellini movies, Casablanca, My Fair Lady, Howard's End, Manhattan, Merci Docteur Rey, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Annie Hall, When Harry Met Sally, An Affair to Remember, The Big Sleep, The Godfather, NOT Godfather 3, Hitchcock, Audrey Hepburn, Woody Allen, Sweeney Todd, Out Of Africa

Music: Trashing Top 40, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie, Frank Sinatra, Oscar Peterson, Piazzolla, Shostakovich, Maria Callas, tango ...everything else is too old to be relevant... because clearly Ella Fitzgerald is still relevant.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

bioluminescence in Thailand.

Teach, Learn, Share

I've got a really really good recipe for peanut sauce.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Spain, Tunisia, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Kenya, Tanzania, United States

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