CURRENT MISSION

Rockin it.

ABOUT ME

MICHAEL: I love life, I love people, I love good conversations. I love walking, writing, singing, smiling, I love sunny days and rainy ones, I love the beach, I love the mountains, I love human ingenuity, I love God's goodness. I hate wasting potential, I hate close-mindedness, I hate
not being wiser and more loving than I am.

We like being married.

PHILOSOPHY

Morality exists, and emanates from something greater and more real than human law, social contract, or emotion.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We are always POTENTIALLY ready to host...if you're in Virginia, give us holler! Who knows...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

MICHAEL: Only coffee
MASHA: Couchsurfed in Italy (Cagliari, Palermo, Catania, Salerno, Florence, Rome) and Salzburg, Austria

Interests

MICHAEL: I snowboard, play sports whenever I get a chance; I think I'd have more "hobbies" if I weren't so busy being a poor student!

Wow..just read the above. I almost never do sports. But I really WANT to; just so very busy....

MASHA: the origins of words, cookbooks, growing my own seasonings, yoga and ecology

• writing
• singing
• coffee
• yoga
• walking
• snowboarding
• sports
• ecology
• law
• beaches
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: currently: Sufjan Stevens, Baumer, Elliott Smith, Death Cab, Feist, Xavier Rudd, Anathallo, Cat Power, Tim and Jeff Buckley, Arcade Fire

Movies: Babel, Crash, Burn After Reading, Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream

Books: Pagan Christianity, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Ender's Game, East of Eden, Silence; also anything Shakespeare, Faulkner, Hemingway, Isaac Babel, J.R.R. Tolkien

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

MICHAEL: I ran with the bulls in Pamplona on July 6th, 2006 (A-MAZING!!!)

Teach, Learn, Share

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
--Ian Fleming

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Panama, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

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