CURRENT MISSION

learning through stories

ABOUT ME

Just graduated university in Texas, now doing a masters in public health ( Social Epidemiology) in London before heading back to the states for medical school. I know often times people dislike being defined by what they do, but I feel like my career track aspirations (/ life to do list) sums me up pretty well, and now, in semi chronoligical and overlapping order: doctor+ hospital director+ world traveler+ think tank researcher+ bakery owner+ pilates instructor+ organic farmer+film director+ investigative journalist+ entrepreneur+ hostel owner may as well be time traveler as well to get it all done....

PHILOSOPHY

the happiest people are those who live each day filled with wonder, who can transcend their thoughts to see the beauty that is life...

a smattering of things i like:
http://www.storyofstuff.org/ ( thanks to Lakshman and the Danish Design Center !)
http://www.treehugger.com
http://www.ted.com/
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/
http://www.themoth.org/
http://www.idealist.org
http://www.walkscore.com/
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com
Favorite Quotations
"If you really want to understand the Tarahumara, you should have been there when this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one every told him he couldn’t. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations."
-Born to Run ( on the Tarahumara super runners from Mexico's Copper Canyon)

"...few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to listen to the music to understand how beautiful it is. But often that's how we present statistics; we just show the notes we don't play the music."
-Hans Rosling
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"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."- Marie Curie

"The past is more real than the present"- Tarkovsky

"The highest result of education is tolerance." -Helen Keller

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”- William Shedd
Life is not a zero sum game

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Love to host and surf! Opportunities to help other people out are like gifts to me:-)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Being a traveller, not a tourist :-) Meeting people from a place is what travelling is all about

Interests

hiking, films, theatre, running (site jogging) , flea markets in foreign countries, second hand shops, people watching, culture, conservation/ believing tree-huggers should be the norm, biking, learning, art, movies, reading, writing , salsa dance, tango,judo, ceildhs, contra dance, art projects

• arts
• culture
• writing
• design
• beauty
• dancing
• tango
• education
• pilates
• running
• instructor
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• rock climbing
• track and field
• teaching
• entrepreneurship
• history
• journalism
• medicine
• science
• statistics
• tourism
• tours

Music, Movies, and Books

unbearable lightness of being,everything by Kurt Vonnegut, the little prince,

dance music, postal service, sufjan stevens, arcade fire, adele,classical, red hot chilli peppers, radiohead, explosions in the sky, jazz, lotss mooore

amelie, before sunrise, blood diamond, city of god, pieces of april, mr smith goes to washington, love actually, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, v for vendetta, in america, garden state, casablanca, a beautiful mind, life is beautiful, inconvenient truth, thank you for smoking, little miss sunshine, me and you and everyone we know, centerstage, the namesake, ratatouille, amelie, the constant gardner, ( waay waaay more)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

the view from peneobscot mountain in maine, climbing table mountain in south africa,

Teach, Learn, Share

Ask me to teach you my bootcamp routine if you wanna get your butt kicked :-) also, I know a smattering of a pilates routine

NY: standing room at broadway shows- about 20-25$!!! try to schedule your trip around free museum days at the MOMA and many other art museums in NY, sooo worth it and it will save you lots of money

DC and NY: Bolt bus and megabus, only 10-20$ round trip-- but get there early or they will give away your seat and you will have to wait till next bus
art museums in DC= excellent and free! also its a great places for biking and jogging

And for all over Europe: Sandeman's New Europe tours- some of the best tour guides around working on a for tips basis- learn something about where you are traveling!

In London? Read the Time Out- the go to source for events, Free museum nights! Science museum: last Wednesday of the Month, Tate Britain: first Friday of the month, V &A and also Natural History: last friday of the month , Royal Court Theatre has ten pence tickets 1 hour before the show ( standing room)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Botswana, China, France, Japan, South Africa, Swaziland, United Kingdom, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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