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Overview

  • 2 references
  • Fluent in English; learning Kyrgyz, Russian, Spanish
  • 45, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Student
  • PHD Candidate
  • From Potomac, MD, USA
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Working on my PHD at the University of Bologna

ABOUT ME

I have been traveling and living in places all over the world for the last six years. Lived in Kyrgyzstan for four years, worked on archaeology digs in South America as well as living in the Caribbean. I lived in Lebanon while doing research on Hezbollah and in India while researching the Maoist insurgency. I am currently working on a PHD at the University of Bologna. The topic is Identity and Territorial expansion: Russian Expansion into Central Asia and the Ukraine. I have undergraduate degrees in anthropology and photography and am I writer. The two things i do best are Photography and dancing (hip Hop).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Want to meet new fun people

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None really just joined

Interests

I am interested in many things but love to do photography and go dancing.

Music, Movies, and Books

Fav books: Tibetan book of living and dying, Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos castanada. Hitchikers guide to the galaxy and the Screwtape letters by cs lewis. I listen to much hip hop because i grew up in the hood on the streets dancing and hanging on the stoop, but love all music my fav artist of all time is Stevie Wonder.

Teach, Learn, Share

The wise man can always play the fool but the fool can never play the wise man.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Oman, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador, Grenada, India, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Norway, Peru

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