CURRENT MISSION

I just got to Buenos Aires last week with the idea of finding work and moving in with my sister (I need to have work before her university will let her move out of her homestay and in with me). I was robbed at gunpoint INSIDE my hostel my 3rd night here.

ABOUT ME

I love books. Primarily fiction and poetry. I also love to travel. I also love to write. I lost all my current writing when my computer was stolen last week, so I´m planning on learning to write longhand again. I teach English in order to travel and hear stories from interesting people. I have a fair number stored up, but I´m always looking for more.

PHILOSOPHY

May those who love us, love us. And those who don´t love us, may god turn their hearts. But if he cannot turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles, so we´ll know them by their limping.

This is more than personal, this is my family´s philosophy...We have one other, it´s from Hamlet:

Speak the speech I pray thee, as I pronounced it to thee trippingly on thy tongue; but if you mouth it as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.

For some reason diction has been a preoccupation of my family for generations.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Looking to crash with some kind soul because I have no money right now.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have no experience!

Interests

Stories, fiction, poetry, zany characters, long discussions, exercise, animals, good jokes, film, positivity...

• animals
• writing
• books
• poetry
• exercise
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

Books (authors): Helen DeWitt, Haruki Murakami, Raymond Carver, Roberto Bolaño, Denis Johnson, Junot Diaz, William Butler Yeats, Pablo Neruda, WC Williams, Wallace Stevens, etc etc

Music (artists): The Black Keys, TV on the Radio, Manu Chao, Radiohead, Los Piojos, Lupe Fiasco, Modest Mouse, Pixies, Los Redondos, Los Pericos, Yasiin Bey, Jay Z, Beach House, etc etc

Movies (directors): The Cohen Brother, Darren Aronofsky, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, Akira Kurosawa, Kathryn Bigelow, Cristopher Nolan, Guy Ritchie, etc etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A few months ago I got to do a backflip into the Black Sea while living in Bat'Umi, Georgia
A few weeks ago I showed up at night to las Sierras Cordobeses where I was working on a farm, the next morning I woke up to a treacherously beautiful landscape
A few days ago I was sitting on my computer in a hostel and had it stolen at gunpoint

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Georgia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Ecuador, Georgia, United States