CURRENT MISSION

World or bust

ABOUT ME

Everything's relative so I like to keep an open mind about things.English teacher in Jordan. Hollaa!

PHILOSOPHY

Everything always works out in the end, because for better or worse, you're going to pull through and find that every experience is a chance for change, discovery, and introspection

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I rave about CS to everyone I know who's planning on traveling.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Really great! became friends with my first Couchsurfing host, Mohamed, who made my settling in Paris a few years ago a whole less stressful than it would have been.All experiences thereafter ... also pretty friggen awesome :)

Interests

photography, youtube, reading, oranges, good films+music, incense, tea, coffee, live music, lounging & drinking, collecting ticket stubs & magazine clippings, going to the theatre, promenades, organization, wikipedia, wondering where the heck i'm going to be a year from now

• photography
• coffee
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• live music
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

books: A Heart-Breaking Work of Staggering Genius, East of Eden, The Bell Jar, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Picture of Dorian Gray, On the Road, A Confederacy of Dunces, Middlesex, Slaughterhouse 5, The Kite Runner, Man Without A Country

films: Eternal Sunshine, Delicatessen, Amelie, No Country For Old Men, Happy Together, The Royal Tenenbaums, Her Wild Oat, When Harry Met Sally, Shoot the Piano Player, Punch-Drunk Love, Being John Malkovich, Where the Buffalo Roam, Les 400 Coups, The Big Lebowksi, Les Bonnes Femmes, Young Frankenstein, Heathers, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Annie Hall, Casablanca, Dial 'M' For Murder ...

music: Ratatat, Pavement, The Arcade Fire, Imogen Heap, Sonic Youth, Fiona Apple, Fugazi, The Pixies, Wolf Parade, Yann Tiersen, Chopin, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Weezer, Mates of State, The Kills, Elvis, Modest Mouse, Joy Division, Adele

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A raucous thunderstorm. In Paris. In July.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Jordan, United States

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