Vegan. I love traveling, especially SE Asia.

🏳️‍🌈 friendly

• FAVORITE COUNTRY: México

• FAVORITE AIRPORT: Singapore Changi Airport

• FAVORITE PERSON: You 😘

• LEAST FAVORITE COUNTRY: the one with the war

• LEAST FAVORITE AIRPORT: Sultan Muhammad Salahudin Airport

• LEAST FAVORITE PERSON: anyone with a net worth of over $1 billion

Never alcohol/club/bar/party/smoking. Ever.

FAST FACTS
• Former 33-year-old
• Miami native
• Classical pianist
• Lover of debate and inquiry and intrigue
• Owns one pair of shoes
• Speaks a few languages
• Illiterate in many more
• Advanced scuba diver but prefers to snorkel
• Can drive a car but prefers to walk
• Been to every continent and about 40% of the world's countries
• Never drinks alcohol or smokes — but amazingly, still enjoys himself
• Like long walks on the beach and books by dead authors
• Never been to prison
•‎ من ايرانيان دوست دارم 😍

I am extremely awkward online, and extremely sociable in person. Sometimes I interchange the two.

I enjoy eating, reading, eating, writing, cooking, eating, exercising*, foreign languages, eating, music, and eating.

I used to live near a beach, but haven't taken a long walk on one in a while, so actually, cross that off the above list.

I have a passion for animals, especially birds and sometimes Homo sapiens. I consider myself a cultured person, and respect all people from all backgrounds. Except Luxembourgish people. (Kidding…maybe)

*UPDATE: I no longer enjoy exercising.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To hang out with interesting people in interesting countries, and to hang out with interesting people in the not-so-interesting countries.

And also to see the Couches of the World, if I am lucky.

Interests

Traveling, animals, books, reading, writing languages, cooking, eating (a lot), learning new things, film, numismatics, classical music, art, art history, world history, computers, science, cultures, world religions, making lists.

Things I’m annoyingly obsessed with: public transit, literature, animal rights, Polynesia, meditation, birds, Greenland.

• animals
• birds
• writing
• books
• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• classical music
• history
• languages
• religion
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC
Mostly classical, but I also love jazz, rock, ethnic and world music (especially Arabic and Turkish), and stuff I'm too embarrassed to say.
I love Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Chopin.

MOVIES
12 Angry Men, American Psycho, Au revoir les enfants, The Believer, Catch Me If You Can, Citizen Kane, A Clockwork Orange, Cool Hand Luke, The Dark Knight, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Falling Down, Fargo, Fiddler on the Roof, Gone Girl, Goodfellas, Good Will Hunting, Grand Budapest Hotel, L.A. Confidential, Ladri di biciclette, Léon: The Professional, Life Is Beautiful, The Machinist, La meglio gioventù, Memento, Metropolis, The Nightmare Before Christmas, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Pianist, Planet of the Apes, The Prestige, Primer, Pulp Fiction Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Schindler's List, The Shining, Sin Nombre, Snatch, The Usual Suspects, Wall Street (the original, not the wolf one)

BOOKS
Wuthering Heights, The Magnificent Ambersons, King Solomon’s Mines, This Side of Paradise, Captains Courageous, Kim, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, McTeague, David Copperfield, Treasure Island, Brave New World, Crome Yellow, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, all the Sherlock Holmes stories, Man’s Search for Meaning, The Jungle, The Railway Children, A Farewell to Arms, Kidnapped, Things Fall Apart, Edward Albee plays, Shakespeare plays, Free Will, The Master and Margarita, Walden, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Neon Bible, Fathers and Sons, the Narnia series, Asterix series, Tin Tin series, Anne of Green Gables and ensuing books (I’m girly, I know), The First Men in the Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, many more

Anything by Wells, Kipling, Twain, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Verne, and Zola. I love 18th–20th century American, British, Russian, and French fiction; for non-fiction, mostly philosophy.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Woken up without an alarm clock

What I Can Share with Hosts

Can cook pretty well, provide good conversation, can provide boring conversation to help you sleep, can make you laugh (because I do stupid things), can sleep on the floor.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Oman, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, United States