CURRENT MISSION

To finally be able to pronounce pho

ABOUT ME

I'm a medical student living in New York. After university, I took a gap year to work, visit friends in other countries, travel for fun, and travel for work. I'm worked for an American global health non-profit, meeting with health organizations in Southeast Asia. I love to run, I like to sketch but don't do it enough, I like music (play piano but spend more time listening), I love dogs that are bigger than a bread basket, I love to read (recently made the jump to non-fiction), and I try to write. I think everybody is worth talking to, I love good food and bad food equally, I want to try to learn more languages and perfect the ones I've started on.

PHILOSOPHY

I like to help where I can in the big picture by volunteering and working for causes I believe in. This is mainly through public health work. But I also really believe in the small, day-to-day interactions that make people happy, so I try to be polite and nice and generally Minnesotan about life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Just got into this, plan on hosting when I'm done traveling and have a couch

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

No official CouchSurfing experience, but a lot of informal ones. One of the better experiences: couch surfing with a middle-aged funeral home director with a sleep apnea machine when I couldn't get a ride home from a bar. The puffing sound was actually really soothing.

Interests

Travel, port cities, animal behavior, evolution, food, old friends

• animals
• dogs
• causes
• dining
• running
• traveling
• music
• piano
• surfing
• languages
• volunteering

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Cape Reinga in New Zealand from a small plane piloted by a friend was one of the most beautiful things I've seen in a while

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Cambodia, Chile, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States