ABOUT ME

First off, I'm terrible at putting my personality into little white boxes. So...hobbies, I guess? I read a lot, love learning about different cultures, spend lots of time outside, am a bit nerdy at times, love to bake and cook, and keep a lot of coffee shops in business with my latte addiction.

I'm an animal lover. If it's a weekend, and I'm not loaded down with tons of work, I google for free jazz concerts in parks. I could live off of picnic food and love to let loose of my schedule when I travel, mostly because it's so strict most of the time. My best afternoons are usually spent taking subways to places I've never been before and reading books under trees.

PHILOSOPHY

I hope to live my life in a way that I can better the world for future generations.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like to meet new people and learn new things!!

Interests

This could be a REAAAAALLLLLY long list. Books, museums, almost all kinds of music (especially things with great lyrics), economics, history, international relations, the UN, learning about new cultures, good food, good wine, ecology, law, philosophy, board games, and logic puzzles. I'm addicted to those.

• animals
• books
• concerts
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• coffee
• picnic
• board games
• reading
• traveling
• puzzles
• music
• jazz
• business
• ecology
• economics
• history
• international relations
• law
• logic
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Ishmael, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Blindness, The Road, As I Lay Dying, Invisible Man, The Yellow Wallpaper, I Am Legend, Harry Potter, Emerson's Essays, The Martian Chronicles, Everything Is Illuminated.

Movies:
Dr. Strangelove, Amelie, Cool Hand Luke, Lars and the Real Girl, Fight Club, Goodnight and Good Luck, Anything Pixar, Donnie Darko, LOTR, anything that involves swashbuckling.

Music: Another really long list. Jeff Buckley, Eels, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, Damien Rice, Ray Lamontagne, Simon & Garfunkel, William Fitzsimmons, Blues Traveler, Ludo, Bad Religion, Counting Crows, Peter Gabriel, The New Pornographers, Joshua Radin, MIKA, Brett Dennen, Arcade Fire, Ben Harper, most alternative rock.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent the day learning songs from former child soldiers in Northern Uganda.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you to cook American Southwestern food. I also make very good crepes.

I can teach you a lot about international relations theory and the United Nations (it's what my research is on).

Also, I teach debate to high school kids in my spare time. I'm not really sure I what that means I could teach you, but it's an area of expertise, so there has to be something...

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Belize, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Rwanda, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States