CURRENT MISSION

I want to be useful to my community and my colleagues while enriching my life with interesting hobbies.

ABOUT ME

I love gardening, biking, baking, hiking, drawing, painting with pastels, writing, reading, knitting, sewing, drawing and reading comics/graphic novels. I love to build things; Jamin and I built a clay oven at our home in Jarabacoa with a buncha kiddos outta nothing more than the clay, sand and rock we dug out of various places around the campo. I love to be useful and if that means cleaning up, mopping up, its ok with me.

I consider myself an active person, but I place a high priority on calmness, stillness, and lucid thought. Lately, I'm excited about yoga and rockclimbing to work out all that tension from the rigorous school and hospital training.

I love to take care of people, especially my special Jamín, stray people, pets or Pokemon. I love women, pregnant women, children and humility. Everyday it's my goal to get the lonely, the poor in spirit and underserved some damn respect in this world. Our home is a safe place for LGTBQI people.

PHILOSOPHY

To save all sentient beings and pursue my principles with hope

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Host, Surf, and help out with trip planning. I've also volunteered with other CSrs and met for random social events.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm trying to rack my brain to create a list of CS experiences for fun! If I've forgotten to list you here or you want to be removed for privacy reasons, ping me :)

Hosted:
Gertjan - Netherlands
Sofia - Sweden
Betty and Ricky - Santo Domingo
Lisa Maria and Jose Luis - Santo Domingo, RD
Jessica - San Francisco de Macoris, RD
Lily - Cabrera, RD
Martin - Burbank, CA
Richard - Riverside, CA
Sole - Chicago, IL
Michelle and Evan - Berkley, CA
Martin and Krystal - Northridge, CA
Anne - Dallas, Texas
Yuval - Jerusalem, Israel
Allison - Durham, NC

Surfed
Lisa Maria and Jose Luis - Santo Domingo
Betty and Ricky - Santo Domingo
Brad - Chicago
Socheata and Charles - New Haven, CT
Maureen - New Haven, CT
Gil and Nancy - D.C.
Lily - D.C.

I don't expect much of my guests, just that they be neat and communicate freely regarding when they would like to be in and out of the house. I will do what I can for you. You can bring me a token of your appreciation (or not), I like everything especially books, maps, world stuff, bread, chocolate, treats and tea. To new CSrs, it's my opinion that a gift for your host (a handwritten note is perfect!) is just one of the many ways to show that you thought about your hosts as much as they thought about you.

Interests

Spanish, Health, Public Health, Comics, DS Lite, Books, Lost television show, Running, Yoga, drawing, opera, musicals, music, poetry, writing, lots of music, hiking, campo life

Stand back - I'm going to try science! (xkcd.com)

• pets
• writing
• books
• poetry
• design
• graphic design
• chocolate
• baking
• yoga
• running
• working out
• gardening
• comics
• reading
• knitting
• painting
• drawing
• music
• opera
• cycling
• hiking
• cartography
• nursing
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

The Namesake, Small is Beautiful, Making Comics, The Way of Zen, Opening the Hand of Thought, How It All Vegan, Light in August, Love and Rockets, Atonement, all things Jaime Hernandez (heart heart heart), Lexicary, raw and vegan cookbooks (we do not identify as vegans or raw foodists)

And the fun texts that rule: Varney's Midwifery, A Book for Midwives, Medical-Surgical Nursing, Pharmacology and Nursing Care, Bate's Guide to Physical Assessment

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I found my soul mate. I am married to my one true love Benjamin and wish the same blessing for and advocate the right for all creatures great and small to experience that same joy in common view of humanity. Gay ok forever!

Teach, Learn, Share

Love to learn more about web application, know a little about finance, Peace Corps, graphic design, web design, books, music, midwifery and nursing

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Germany, Honduras, Japan, Peru

Countries I’ve Lived In

Dominican Republic, United States

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