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Overview

  • 13 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Korean, Spanish, Swahili, Thai
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Lifelong Learner
  • College: Biology, Education
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Explore, be grateful, be content

ABOUT ME

I'm easy going, funny, curious, and eager to learn. Always up for a good time and enjoy new experiences. I've have the privilege of being an expat for almost 5 years and am loving what it has taught me. This journey that we are on is meant to be examined so that we can realize who we are and realize "who" the world is. I live for those moments that give me faith in humanity and am humbled and motivated by those moments that don't. I am non judgmental, understanding, and enjoy exploration.

PHILOSOPHY

Question, revise, appreciate, live, love, give

A Life Unexamined is a Life Not Worth Living

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING:

Meeting other surfers, hosting, surfing.

I'm wanting to get more involved with the couchsurfing community these days! Sometimes I forget how beautiful this idea is!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted:

Melanie and Sara - 3 nights

Tyler - 1 night

Dave - 1 night

Bagira - 2 nights

Adam - 2 nights

Jieun - 4 nights

Surfed/Traveled with:

Silvia - 3 nights

Sol - 5 nights

Ivan - 10 days

Interests

Bugs, biology, camping, education, research, buddhism, balance, liberty, big-picture, truth, aliens, the universe, physics, conservation, free/sustainable energy, clean water.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

The very best, grateful dead, beatles, ratatat, manama, stevie wonder, van morrison, polyphonic spree, PFC world ensemble, Paul Simon, noah and the whale, musical youth, fela kuti, bob marley, CCR, citizen cope, the byrds, the avett brothers, the police, nina simone, manau, manu chao, supertramp, three dog night, edward sharpe and magnetic zeros, George Ezra, Delta Spirit.....

Movies: Any Quentin Tarantino, Into the Wild, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Spring Summer Winter Fall Spring, What the Bleep do we Know, Life, Gasland, Wasteland

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
-Worked with the Maasai tribe
-Wildlife Management
-Safaris
-Bungee jumped/rafted the nile

Teach, Learn, Share

Those with the least can teach us the most about being happy.

Fire Poi
Biology/Science
Laughing and Treasuring others

What I Can Share with Hosts

Respect, conversation, a drink, food.
: )

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda

Countries I’ve Lived In

Kenya, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

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