CURRENT MISSION

To get myself through school while enjoying as much of my life as possible

ABOUT ME

I like to think I'm pretty outgoing and a fun guy to be around. I enjoy almost all sports - I run, cycle, and swim a lot and I was a proud member of the Tromsø underwater rugby team. I also love the more fun sports, like waterskiing and alpine skiing, but I don't get to do them very often. I go to college in Westchester county New York where I'm majoring in Economics and minoring in Visual Arts. I'm planning on going in to Art Administration after I graduate and I have a sweet little Gallery Internship set up for the summer. I love to travel and meet new people!

PHILOSOPHY

If it makes you happy and it doesn't make anyone else too unhappy, you should probably just do it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I couch surfed in London and in Prague in the first half of 2009 and loved it! I'm hoping to host some people this Summer because my huge house will be pretty much empty as all my housemates will be gone.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only a little (above)

Interests

Running, Swimming, Cylcing (bicycle, not motorcycle), Contemporary visual arts and late modernism, laying around outside on the beach or in my back yard, fuckin around in the city (NYC), trying to grow plants, helping people out, tattoos.

• arts
• tattoos
• marathon
• running
• instructor
• traveling
• billiards
• cycling
• skiing
• sports
• rugby
• swimming
• economics
• visual arts
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

TAO LIN = NEW FAVORITE AUTHOR! I will pretty much watch anything as long as it's not horror. I hate horror movies. I love the bourne movies, Bond movies, Fargo, The Royal Tenenbaums, those movies with Simon Pegg in them... I like to listen to whatever is on the radio: country, pop, rock, whatever. I tend to read a lot of non-fiction books, usually about economics or sociology or something cool like that. Plus wikipedia. That totally counts.... The last few books I've read are: Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe (ACTUALLY very interesting, cool theories on Ag development and land rent structures), Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close (I didn't finish it because of finals), The Princess of Burundi, Fallen Angel, A Hell of a Woman (I wrote a thesis paper on this book and it ROCKED), and the Frommer's Norway Guide of course.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I got scarification, I ran 10k in a snow storm in January 200 miles above the arctic circle. I climbed one of the Lyngen Alps in Northern Norway. I drank champagne on the helipad of a cruise ship at 70 degrees of latitude, I got a beej in central park ;)

I RAN A HALF MARATHON IN CENTRAL PARK (not the same time as the beej though)

Teach, Learn, Share

I am an encyclopedia of moderately useful first aid because I was a lifeguard and lifeguard instructor. Don't get me started on the topic of children running at the pool unless you have a couple hours to spare.

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Japan, Mexico, Norway

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States