CURRENT MISSION

Travel around Asia as much as possible!

ABOUT ME

I'm a 26-year old American working at MakerBot in NY. at I love history, religious studies, and astronomy!

I am pursuing a career in the Foreign Service, and love to travel!

PHILOSOPHY

Look to this day
for it is life
the very life of life.

In its brief course lie all
the realities and truths of existence
the joy of growth
the splendor of action
the glory of power.

For yesterday is but a memory
And tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived
makes every yesterday a memory
of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day....

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

1. Surfed with Cat and her family in Faribault, Minnesota (12/07)
2. Surfed with Kyle in Mahomet, Illinois (12/07)
3. Surfed with Jason in Pittsburgh (12/07)
4. Went to a lot of CS Mumbai meets, summer 2009
5. Surfed with Cyril in Tokyo, September 2010

Interests

being with good friends, music, concerts, drums, STARGAZING, astronomy, mythology, reading, movies, European history, Indian and Asian history/culture, religious studies.

If you come up to me and mention: any religion, astronomy, Asia, or Greek mythology, we could talk for hours.

• cats
• fish
• culture
• concerts
• festivals
• walking
• drinking
• boating
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• drums
• fishing
• sikhism
• wrestling
• rock climbing
• swimming
• astronomy
• history
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swimming in the Dead Sea.

Taking a car through the Himalayas.

Watching the stars from a Buddhist Stupa in Ladakh, India.

Seeing the Wagah border ceremony in Punjab, India.

Seeing the Sikh Golden Temple three separate times in 24 hours.

Floating on a boat at 5am on the Ganges River in Varanasi, watching a total solar eclipse, surrounded by thousands of chanting Indians.

Climbing the Fushimi Inari Taisha (Shinto Shrine) in Kyoto, Japan.

Drinking matcha green tea in a Bamboo Forest in Arashiyama, outside Kyoto, Japan.

Walking through a pitchblack hallway called Zuigudo with our hands on a railing until we reached a small room with a light shining on a big rock. WOMB in Sanskrit was written. We made a wish. We were "inside" the mother of the Buddha, Daizuigi Bosastu. In Kiyomizudera Temple, Kyoto, Japan

Eating sushi in Tsukiji Fish Market. Tokyo, Japan.

Watching a sumo wrestling tournament in Tokyo, Japan.

Climbing the Great Wall of China at Mutianyu.

Seeing the Longqing Ice Festival in Beijing.

Visiting the Demilitarized Zone in South Korea.

Stayed a weekend at Sudeoksa Buddhist Temple in South Korea.

Teach, Learn, Share

Basic drum beats, random names of constellations and stars.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, India, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States

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