It is important to me that I help people when I can, which is why I am lucky to have my current jobs. One provides low-income families with financial advice, the other helps with household energy management. In my free time I like to travel and visit friends. Slowly working my way through the U.S. 50 before expanding abroad(though I've spent a month in Italy and a year in Japan).

Lots of beauty and complexity in the world and I want to see it! Also want to expand my understanding of different spaces so that I can help shape my own in a positive way!

To end, a positive and negative quote that I like

“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
-jiddu krishnamurti

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've been traveling for awhile and I thought it might be nice to expand my circle of travel buddies through a site like this. Also, once I move to my new place, looking forward to hosting!

Interests

architecture, coding, yoga, gift giving, movies, soccer(football?), wordplay, strategy games, 3d puzzles

• folklore
• architecture
• beauty
• yoga
• partying
• movies
• traveling
• puzzles
• coding
• soccer
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Some recents

Books: A People's History of the United States (Zinn), The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemmingway, Ruby on Rails Book (Hartl)

Movies: Primer, Tokyo Godfathers, Bully

TV: Louie, House of Cards, In the Mind of a Chef

Music: Soulection, Sasha Keable, Tokimonsta

Art: Zdzisław Beksiński, Katerina Kamprani, The Internet

Speakers: Tariq Ali, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Kathryn Schulz

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Helped build a house for Habitat for Humanity.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach about how your computer works, I really want to learn about what your community is like/how you interact with it, and I want to share in experiences of cool spaces

What I Can Share with Hosts

Currently good conversation and external motivation to explore. Soon a place to stay should they visit where I end up!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Japan, United States