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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
de-bunk stereotypes
ABOUT ME
I enjoy rugby, biking and being around the water just as much as I would like to sit and talk about poetry, human rights or the mysteries of the space time continuim.
About a year ago I graduated from college where I focused in creative writing and ancient studies. Now I am journeying around to let my mind breathe and grow in a completely different way.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I used Couchsurfing about two and a half years ago while traveling through Eastern and Southern Italy with a roommate. It was a great experience. I haven't hosted anybody as of yet, but hope to.
Interests
in myth as Italo Calvion defines it:
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.”
- writing
- poetry
- human rights
- traveling
- cycling
- rugby
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies:
The Science of Sleep, Shakespeare in Love, Life is Beautiful, Billy Elliot, The Thomas Crowne Affair, Amelie
Music:
Regina Spektor, The Kinks, Sondheim Musicals, Ludacris, and Manu Chao
Books:
Invisible Cities, The Aeneid, Everything is Illuminated, Another Roadside Attraction and poetry by; Walt Whitman, Abram Sutzkever, Wislawa Szymborska and the ancient Greek and Latin poets [i.e. Pindar, Sappho, Horace]
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
seeing the Northern Lights
Teach, Learn, Share
I am pretty good at fixing bicycles
Countries I’ve Visited
Australia, Iceland, Italy
Countries I’ve Lived In
Canada, Italy, United States
Old School Badges
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Pioneer Badge