Oh, well hello there.

INTJ, but you would never be able to tell the "I" on first glance.

My "day job" (that actually happens well before daylight) is a VIPKID Teacher. Additionally, I'm working with a friend to start up to support parents of children who have experienced trauma. Always willing to learn more about attachment theory, religion*, and whatever it is that makes people tick.

(*If I ever started a blog, it would probably be dedicated exclusively to conversations I have about religion with my various AirBnB hosts, so saying that I have an interest in religion is probably an understatement. They're always pretty fun conversations, imo.)

Worth noting: If you give me enough notice, I'll do my best to make sure I'm not teaching super early in the morning when you come to visit; however, if you request to stay less than two weeks from your anticipated date of travel, there's a chance I won't be able to arrange my schedule so that I won't be teaching in the wee hours of the morning. My "office" is in my (huge) closet, and I've gotten pretty good at having enthusiastic conversations with Chinese 8-year-olds at an acceptable decibel level -- so if that arrangement doesn't bother you, it doesn't bother me.

Also worth noting: I don't have WiFi (although I do have an ethernet connection that you're free to use) or a TV. Or a microwave. I don't know why I choose to live like this, tbh.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm poor, but I want to travel?

Interests

• swing dancing
• drawing
• christianity

Music, Movies, and Books

I always cringe when I come back to my favorites lists after a few years, but, as of 2020:

Books: Watership Down; 1984; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton); The Cost of Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer); The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel Van Der Kolk),

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I got an email about a $200 plane ticket to Colombia from a club at my school. Despite not knowing anyone at the club, I signed up to go. I spent a week with four strangers who turned out to be marvelous people. Two years later, convinced, I went back to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer. To my immense chagrin (read: delight), the thing that everyone told me would happen in Peace Corps did, in fact, happen, and we'll be getting married in January.

Countries I’ve Visited

Colombia, England, France, Italy, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia