Hi there! I was born and grew up in the North of Haiti, spending a total of ten years on the island nation I call home. I enjoy making music, with guitar, ukulele, recorder, or voice, and listening as others do the same. I enjoy both deep and shallow conversations with people, as long as I don't drown in whatever waters the words may take me to (preferred if a certified lifeguard is present). My goal right now is to learn how to farm sustainably, and a distant dream I have is to somehow be a part of the movement that transforms food deserts into self-sustaining oases, that fight tooth and nail in the revolution to end corporate gain and capitalism's voracious appetite for exploitation.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm currently traveling in California alongside my good friend David Saulsbury. We hail from the miniscule town of Burnsville, North Carolina (the population of which significantly went down as soon as we left), which is in the mountains near Asheville. Both of us had originally planned to work at a goat farm in Willits, Mendocino County, but the host of the farm decided they couldn't take us on at the last minute. We then ended up staying one day at the saddest farm in California, with a man whose sadness seeped into the very garden soil we helped him weed. Swiftly deciding that our spirits could take no more of this, we up and left, driving south along the coast, hoping to end up in San Francisco for a time. We feel more and more that our lives are aligning with characters from Tolkien's beloved tale "The Hobbit," adventuring as per Belladonna Took's son Bilbo. We have become quite familiar with sleeping in the car, a Toyota Rav4 lovingly deemed Ravi Shankar (because it's a car, and a Rav4 at that). Happy to mix it up and stay on a gracious person's couch, and happy to return the favor with music, conversation, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from our supply.

Interests

• soccer
• teaching
• languages
• social work
• wwoof
• learning
• farming
• recorder
• haiti
• welsh

Music, Movies, and Books

Ravi Shankar, Donovan, William Onyeabor, Carimi, Enya, The Cranberries, The Fugees, Meek Mill, Ratatat.

Black Panther, Murder by Death, What about Bob, The Court Jester, Fight Club, Grand Budapest Hotel, My Neighbor Totoro.

Fahrenheit 451, Ishmael, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Hobbit, Babouk, Les Miserables, Cathedral Stories, The Monkeywrench Gang.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have played soccer with a tumbleweed in the Utah desert.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach some Bruderhof songs, which are generally morning or evening songs that celebrate the natural world. I would like to learn how to better navigate urban environments. I would like to share Haitian food with any and all willing parties.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share some Haitian Creole parables or phrases, Bruderhof songs, stories from the past, Haitian food, a cold beer, or some tiny pine cones collected near Fort Bragg, CA.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Belize, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Saint Lucia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Haiti, Saint Lucia, United States