CURRENT MISSION

To gain more experience

ABOUT ME

hmm... i'll update this within the next couple months. "all about you" is a fairly hard thing to answer.

PHILOSOPHY

i used to say i lived to love or to serve, but now i'm more focused on my own personal growth.
i like doing things for people, but i also do things for people when i don't want to.
i'm still trying to figure out what i want to do with my life and how i want to live it.
money is not that important to me beyond basic needs.
people are important to me, but i'm mildly socially awkward (socially awkward butterfly, if you will)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i'll update this if/when i start participating

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i'll update this if/when i have a cs experience

Interests

swimming, ultimate, badminton
music(rock, edm, indie), books(mostly fantasy/sci fi)
nature(backpacking, hiking,camping. haven't had much experience with other outdoor stuff, but would like to)

• books
• festivals
• breakfast
• clubbing
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• swimming
• badminton
• tourism
• volunteering
• tours

Music, Movies, and Books

music:
the strokes
red hot chili peppers
coldplay
muse
guster
metric
weezer
billy joel
macklemore and ryan lewis
madeon
krewella
tycho
blackmill
sts9
explosions in the sky
eoto
armin van buuren
above and beyond
datsik
emancipator
etc. etc. etc.

movies:
serenity
donnie darko
fight club
mr. nobody
crash
the princess bride
the breakfast club
the lion king and etc. disney movies
boondock saints
silver linings play book
jeff who lives at home
pitch perfect
etc.

books:
incarnations of immortality series by piers anthony
dune series by frank herbert
demon cycle series by peter v. brett
bartimaeus series by johnathon stroud
his dark materials series by philip pullman
mythadventures series by robert lynn asprin
noble warriors series by william nicholson
the wind on fire series by william nicholson
the runelords series by david farland
the painter knight by fiona patton
freakonomics by steven d. levitt and stephen j. dubner
illusions by richard bach
hatchet by gary paulsen
the fantastic flying journey by gerald durrell
etc. etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

my experiences with students today leaders forever(STLF) on pay it forward tours(pift) have been some of my greatest experiences. 40ish students use their college spring break to tour different cities and volunteer for a few hours in each. we also did tourism activities and a lot of group bonding and getting to know each other and our selves. basically voluntourism meets 'the breakfast club.' it's been the most fulfilling experiences i've had.

i've been to electric forest music festival in rothbury, MI - an eye opener into a whole new side of our world i hadn't experienced yet

Teach, Learn, Share

i would say i don't have enough experience with anything to really teach something, if you want to talk about something 'philosophical' we can probably learn something though. i tend to over think a lot of things, if not everything and all the time.