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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
to fall in love with the journey
ABOUT ME
I've been out living in the desert in Senegal for about one 1/2 years, as an Evironmental Education Extension Agent. Come visit my hut and I'll tell you what that means.
PHILOSOPHY
I believe that people are equal halves kindness and selfishness, I believe in the words "inchallah", soul mates, the power of peanut butter, bob dylan lyrics, that there are many types of poverty, experience is a greater gift than knowledge, that books change lives, the hidden potentail of every female, siezing the day...
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
you can use my stick bed and mosquitoe net whenever you want, and I'll get my village mom to cook us bomb-ass cheub
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
none, but excited to start
Interests
running, swimming, surfing climbing, "extreme biking", reading, journalling, painting, smiling
- books
- education
- cooking
- running
- reading
- painting
- cycling
- surfing
- rock climbing
- swimming
- teaching
Music, Movies, and Books
Books: God of Small Things, Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies, East of Eden, The Bell Jar, Life of Pi, House of Spirits, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Biography of the Dahli Lama, Interpreter of Maladies, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Kafka on the Shore, The Fountainhead, anything by Roald Dahl or George Orwell
Music:David Gray, Ben Harper, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, Cake, Ben Folds, TOOL, Onelinedrawing, Counting Crows, The Flaming Lips, The Streets, Sufjan, Regina Spektor, Damien Rice, Joss Stone, Marley, Sublime, Phish, Pearl Jam, Decemberists, Matisyahu, Sigur Rós, The Stills, U2, Bright Eyes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Broken Social Scene, Tegan and Sara, Nirvana, The White Stripes
Movies: Shawshank Redemption, Braveheart, Office Space, Dancer in the Dark, The Spanish Apartment, You Me and Everyone We Know
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Hiked the Inca Trail, done a lot of illegal border crossings...
Teach, Learn, Share
A pound of armadillo meat contains 780 calories. Most armadillos seen dead on the road did not get hit by the wheels. When an armadillo is frightened it jumps straight into the air. Armadillos have four babies at a time, always all the same sex. They are perfect quadruplets, the fertilized cell split into quarters, resulting in four identical armadillos. Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day. Armadillos can walk underwater.
Countries I’ve Visited
Canada, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Peru, Sierra Leone, Switzerland, Thailand
Countries I’ve Lived In
Senegal, Zimbabwe