CURRENT MISSION

EUROPE!!

ABOUT ME

I love to be outside. I'll go hiking any day and swimming all year long (I do the polar bear swim every new years!). I love good food, and have an enormous sweet tooth. I'm half Indian, quarter Irish and a quarter English. I make drawings and sculptures. I am very close to my family. I love to read, and dance (but am still pretty bad at any dance with real steps), and cook, and party, and be shocked by new experiences. I want to be as open and caring of a person as possible. I am most disappointed in myself when I judge and make assumptions about people, or close myself off. I love when I am able to see every conversation I have as interesting and inspiring in some way. I’m super low maintenance, and although I was raised vegetarian I now eat some meat and am down to try any food I’m offered.

PHILOSOPHY

I think there's pleasure to be had in everything. But I also believe in the world as a place of opposites.

Interests

this summer I want to learn more about: botany, black holes, salsa dancing, south american contempory art, octavio paz, pablo neruda, indigenous amazonian mythology and stories, how to cook steak, how to speak perfect spanish...

• arts
• dancing
• salsa dancing
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• partying
• hiking
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

I just started reading James Joyce's Ulysses. The Dead is one of my favorite books. Last week I had a crazy dream about parallaxes and when the Wikipedia article mentioned Ulysses I took it as a sign.
also: Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Ray Carver, Joseph Cambell...My new favorite movie is The Five Obstructions by Jorgon Leth. Also just started loving Hertzog, and Harun Farocki. Lately I've been listening to the talking heads, smiths, aphex twin, thoa, nina simon, mia doi todd, and funny cheesy arab music (all depending on what mood i'm in).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being on the Ganges river in Banaras India, and watching families bathe their dead was one of the most powerful experiences I've ever had.

Countries I’ve Visited

India, Peru

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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