CURRENT MISSION

be like obama

ABOUT ME

I have a long trip coming up. The day after Christmas, Dec.26 I fly to Madrid from Chicago, and then to South Africa for a while (2 months) and then to Milan to see a friend, and then to Holland to finish work on my thesis. I am seeking South African girls that have been au pairs in the Nederlands to help me with my research. Please feel more than free to contact me if you have been an au pair (from south africa) in holland. I would love to talk to you because I really need to find girls to interview and use in my thesis about this subject.

PHILOSOPHY

REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH, HEALTH CARE FOR ALL, I think it can be summed up by something Che Guevara once wrote in 'MotorCycle Diaries', "Its time that those who govern spent less time publishing their own virtues and more money, much more money, funding socially useful works" ..... beautiful.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can host people when I get done travelling. After Holland I plan to fly back to the U.S., via Iceland, and then I am hoping to go to these islands off Maine, but after that I will be still for a minute. I will most likely be in Louisville for one semester, (six months) and then I might live in Hawaii for half a year before I start law school in a yet to be determined locale. I am a pretty decent cook too.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

When I was younger I was really into skateboarding and I travelled all over to skate and it facilitated meeting other people,and crashing with them (world-wide, scotland, spain, france, germany, all over holland, london, new york, etc.. In my heart I feel an obligation to put someone up that is on a skateboarding trip, for all the times people let me stay with them......... and bascially anyone that is travelling because they love to travel and want to see the world, those people are alright too

Interests

post post colonial studies, skateboarding, french new wave films, strong black-as-death coffee, cycling, learning to surf better, exposing scandals, bringing up past political scandals (with great enthusiasm) involving former republican officials who hid their homosexuality while lending support to anti-homosexual legislation, reading too much, and arguing that no amount of coffee is ever unhealthy.

• cooking
• breakfast
• coffee
• flying
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• skateboarding
• law
• au-pair

Music, Movies, and Books

Great films I have seen recently include all of Wes Andersons films, Godard's 'Weekend' and Truffauts 'The hundred blows' and this odd movie called 'time of the gypsies.'
Music that I like a lot includes everything from RObert Johnson and Mississipi John Hurt to Art Pepper and John Coltrane and Mary Lou Williams to Hank Williams and early nas and de la soul and dead prez, and public enemy, and rjd2 and hot chip and belle and sebastian and devandra banhart and bob dylan. Currently I am on a huge Tom Waits kick and I would really love to see him play live. I have been trying to listen to more classical music since seeing the barnyard scene in 'weekend' and because one of my favorite authors, edward said, writes a lot about classical music in his autobiography, 'Out of Place.' Great books I hold in esteem include Frantz Fanon's 'The Wretched on the Earth', Edward Said's 'Orientalism' and 'Culture and Imperialism' and Sarte's 'Colonialism and NeoColonialism' and Anthony Kwame Appiah's 'In my Father's house' and Primo Levi's 'A Tranquil STar' and most anything by Italo Calvino, John Steinbeck, John Updike, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, leopold senghor and aime cesaire, auden, kafka, nancy shepard hughes, paul farmer, ............

I have also recently been reading the 'Cairo Trilogy' by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, and they are fantastic.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Probably going to iceland and just seeing the craziness of the nature there.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach the secret of the best breakfast burritos in the world. I need to learn how to surf better.