CURRENT MISSION

Go to sleep knowing that I put effort to being a better person that woke up this morning

ABOUT ME

I am very outgoing. I love seeing history, museums, and anything unique during the day and partaking in the clubs / bars at night. I am also an outdoors man. I find thrills in skydiving, snowboarding, hiking, water sports, and sports. I play volleyball so if there is a beach and a court i am always interested to play. I enjoy cooking and always looking to expand my creativity with different culture's food.

An important note for surfers. I only take those who put time and effort into the couchsurfing community. For newbies that don't have references, the least you can do is to put a lot of effort into your profile. If you do not take the time to tell me why you would be a good fit to stay with me, then I won't take the time to tell why you are not a good fit.

PHILOSOPHY (Quotes I Live My Life By)

If you live with regret you constantly re-infect yourself, If you live for tomorrow you cannot experience today. So I live in the moment, like in a bubble that cuts me out of the past and future and allows me to enjoy life as I live it.

Nothing is good or bad, but how we perceive it makes it so. Our mind can be our worst enemy if we do not realize how to control it, turn every situation into a positive aspect.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing

If you want to go to a place where you have never been, you have to take a road you have never taken

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps

If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless -- like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I love making a connection with other open-minded people, and being a couchsurfer and letting a stranger stay with you is being very open-minded. In my opinion, seeing a city from the local perspective is way more exciting and opens the culture of the city than froma tourist perspective.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was gifted with an amazing introduction with couchsurfing from my first 2 hosts during my eurotrip which made Brussells and Garmisch-Partenkirchen incredible experiences. Since then I have been open to surfing in the areas that I live. I travel frequently for work and try to take advantage of being in a city and meeting couchsurfers.

Interests

Outdoor Activities, Cooking, Drinking, Shenanigans, Dancing, Reading, Writing, Mechanics, Science, Chinese Culture, Kung-Fu, Qigong, Meeting great people, Seeing what the world has to offer.

• cats
• arts
• culture
• writing
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• drinking
• clubbing
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• investing
• guitar
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• surfing
• skydiving
• snowboarding
• sports
• volleyball
• history
• languages
• science
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music- John Legend, Kanye West, Common, Girl Talk, Usher, Pentatonix, Pretty Lights, Boyce Avenue, Gorillaz, Jay-Z, Andy McKee, Glitch Mob, Daft Punk, David Guetta, Jurassic 5

Books- The Game by Neil Strauss (Favorite Author), the 4-hour Series, Shantaram, The 7 secrets of awakening the highly effective four-hour giant today, Bulletproof Diet, That book that is now a movie so i can pretend i read it.

Movies- Anything Pixar & Dreamworks, All work by Hiyao Miyazaki, Boondock Saints, American Beauty, Thomas Crown Affair, Inception, Shawshank Redemption, Momento, Sex Drive , Zoolander, Hot Rod,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I baked 30 minute brownies in 20 minutes, take that society

Teach, Learn, Share

Now that I am out of school and have more free time, I allocate a lot of time to invest in myself. Every day my goal is to go to bed a better person than when I woke up. I find interests in body language, verbal communication, personal finance, acoustic guitar, storytelling, creative writing, cultures and languages and many more. One thing I enjoy is learning something from a different culture, a unique skill or just something cool in general. For example, my time in Germany I learned how to open a beer bottle with another beer bottle or learned to use chopsticks in China. They are anchors that remind me of my experiences in those countries, meeting people there etc.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I will do my best to make the surfer's visit an amazing experience. I live in Old town which is a great neighborhood of Chicago and love showing off things that would interest the people visiting. You like night life, so do I so I will show you my favorite bars. You love archictecture, art, history, not my strongsuit but I am always open to experience what someone else has a passion for.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States