CURRENT MISSION

available couches are numberless, i vow to surf them all...

ABOUT ME

PHILOSOPHY

I believe in living my life for the benefit of others. I believe in finding common ground between people. I believe in thrusting myself into challenging situations outside of my comfort zone.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can't do much right now other than surf on other peoples' couches and show people around my own neighborhoods and city.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had no CS experiences as of yet, but as I accrue some hosting/traveling reptitude I'll include it here.

Interests

People watching, meditation, reading, poetry (spoken word), martial arts (tae kwon do), massage therapy, learning new things... languages especially!

• arts
• poetry
• dancing
• cooking
• massage therapy
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• metal music
• dance music
• spoken word
• sailing
• martial arts
• anthropology
• biology
• earth science
• languages
• law
• mathematics
• physics
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Jazz, Classic Rock, Hip Hop / Rap, Classical, Reggae/ Ska, Funk, Punk, Soul, Motown, Salsa and other latin dance music, dance music in general. NOT grunge, heavy/thrash/death metal, or variations on those themes. NOT bad music. YES good music from around the world

Books: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Vonnegut, J. K. Rowling (HP4life), lots of AP english picks, lots of non-AP english list books, more to come

Movies: anything Hitchcock (though i haven't seen all of them), Memento, some Disney, most Pixar, a lot of indies

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1. spent a month on an Outward Bound sailing expedition up and down the coast of Maine one summer

2. sat the 1st week of a 3-month a meditation retreat in Providence, RI and got excited about snowfall on the last day like most people get excited about meeting their childhood idols

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach: lots of random things from biology to earth sciences to psychology. expertise? --> meditation, anthropology, French, Shiatsu massage.

I'd love to learn: any language, any discipline (math might be a tough sell), any kind of philosophy. Basically, anything i don't know and strikes my fancy

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, France, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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