CURRENT MISSION

To exist in the best interests of myself and those around me.

ABOUT ME

I am a nice, creative, and fun guy always willing to meet new people and have a great time. I'm interested in theatre, music, and cooking, but I'm very open minded and always up to trying new things. I'm great with kids; I worked as a camp counselor and music specialist at a summer camp. I love big cities as I grew up very close to New York City. I try to get there any time I can to see a show or just enjoy the town.

My time on campus in Syracuse University is divided primarily between rehearsal for various shows and productions I'm involved in, lots of classwork, and rehearsals for a co-ed a cappella group I've been in for almost 2 years now. I sing bass and am also a proficient beatboxer.

I am studying at the Globe Theatre in London until December and looking to see as much of Europe as I can before I leave this great part of the world! Any questions about any this, please don't hesitate to ask.

PHILOSOPHY

My personal philosophy is that everything happens for a reason, and we are here living this life to learn and grow from it and always be able to look on the bright side of things. Life is too short to get caught up in the bad when there is a world of good still to see. I want to immerse myself in everything I love to do so I can make sure I remember my life for the good things. I don't neglect the bad, as I think the bad parts are equally important as the good. What's the fun in life if there's no struggle? I'd like to think that I have a pretty positive outlook on living life and I'm learning every day to not limit myself.

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am open to lending my couch in my London flat and also looking for other friendly people to lend theirs to me as I travel around. To me there is nothing better than meeting new people and acquiring new points of view through that. We live once, so why not be hospitable and open to anything?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Recently, my roommates and I took a trip to Dublin, Ireland for a weekend. We had a great time there, and we stayed in a hostel in a great area of the city. There, we met a fellow American who was traveling Europe somewhat aimlessly and we became friends with him. We had a great weekend together and he told us that he was planning on visiting London shortly thereafter. Having met the guy already and getting to know him rather well, we almost immediately offered our couch to him when he was going to stay in London; where we live. We figured, "Why not?", because we trusted him and could call him our friend. So, we exchanged information, and ot more than a week later, he knocks on our door with his bags and we were more than happy to accommodate our couch to him, with no regard to the compromise of comfort in our flat. It's a couch, and none of us sleep on it, so why shouldn't he? We are now great friends and plan on keeping in touch once back in America.

Intereses

I am interested in almost all kinds of music, songwriting, composing, and beatboxing. I play the guitar and the piano and I dabble on the electric bass. I have lots of fun playing a show with a band or just jamming with friends. I love theatre and all that surrounds it. It constantly interests me and I have a nonstop hunger to know more about it. I plan to be a professional actor, making movies and whatever else kinds of art that inspire me somewhere down the road. I also love food :) I'd like to say that I'm a pretty good cook and I'm always down to try new things. Cooking is such a relaxing thing to do for me. Who knows what I end up doing in life, but somewhere in there, I'd like to attend culinary school and learn everything there is to know about food and making it. Hopefully I'll open a restaurant one day.

• arts
• singing
• acting
• dining
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• piano
• a cappella
• camping
• law

Música, películas y libros

My favorite bands/musicians are:
Tally Hall, Ben Folds (Five), Umphrey's Mcgee, The Beatles, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Phish, Dave Matthews Band, The Barenaked Ladies, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, The Hold Steady, Cake, and many, many more.

My favorite movies have to include: Hook, Keeping the Faith, The Dark Knight, Silence of the Lambs, Donnie Darko, Usual Suspects, American Beauty, American History X, No Country For Old Men, The Big Leqbowski, Se7en, Fight Club, Star Wars, X-Men, E.T., and a lot more.

I usually read more plays than books, being a theatre major and all :P Some of my favorite plays include The Pillowman, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Not Quite Jerusalem, Jesus Hopped The A Train, The Foreigner, As You Like It, Hamlet, Three Days of Rain, Little Foxes, and an unlimited amount more.

Algo increíble que he hecho

I have climbed the Masada mountain in Israel with my family; we saw the sun rise from the ruins on the summit of the cliff - a truly remarkable sight.

I have swam in the Dead Sea and snorkeled in the Red Sea.

I have witnessed the endless grasp of the Mediterranean sea from both the Western coast of Israel, and the coast of Marbella, Spain.

Enseña, aprende, comparte

I want to learn (as much as I can within a short visit) about different cultures and ways of life. I am an actor so the more people I meet and can draw knowledge from, the better. To me there is no higher level of trust when a group of people (even a group that has barely even begun to know each other) sits to talk about life and its many complicated and inexplicable extremities. I think some questions really have no answers, and the more I can talk to people and get ideas as to how, if ever, they can be answered, the happier I am. Sure, I want to know why we are here and all that existential stuff, but for the time being, I can't. I'd just like to learn about life both in the material and practical sense, as well as the ethereal sense, however I can. I am completely open to sharing my knowledge and maintaining its fruitfulness by gathering new ideas and perspectives.