CURRENT MISSION

Being the best dad I can be

ABOUT ME

I'm big on foreign languages. I love travelling and meeting people from around the world, Lebanese cuisine, running, teaching my mother tongue, reading to my daughter (especially Harry Potter), the NBA...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I met the CS crew at Bucharest and had a great time with them

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Met tens of people in Romania through CS and enjoyed every one of them so far

Interests

Literature, history, art, film, music, languages, cooking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Blade Runner, The Quiet Man, Schindler's List, In the Name of the Father, the Coens' films, Ken Loach's filmography, Thelma and Louise, How Green was my Valley, Michael Moore's films, the new wave of Romanian cinematography (4, 3, 2; Cum mi-am petrecut sfirsitul lumii, Moartea Domnului Lazarescu), La madre muerta, La buena estrella, Marius y Jeannette, Leaving las Vegas, The Remains of the Day, Hitchcock, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance, The Godfather, Breaking the Waves, Cidade de Deus, Boys Don't Cry, American History X, Amadeus, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Eastwood's latest classics (Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River...), The Crying Game, classic film-noirs (Double Indemnity, The Maltese Falcon...)

Books: La Peste, L'Etranger (anything by Camus, really); I, Claudius; Middlesex, anything by Philip Roth, Bill Bryson, Nick Hornby, the French Realists (Zola, Balzac...), the Spanish Classics (Quevedo), the Spanish Generation of 27, Dickens, Cioran, contemporary Romanian literature (Ilis, Lungu, Cimpoesu, Florian...), Lawrence Durrell, JRR Tolkien, David Lodge, too many to count

Music: I can't even start to list them

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Spain, United States