CURRENT MISSION

See the world, see YOU!

ABOUT ME

Working with international teaching assistants to improve their oral English, trying to survive grad school.

PHILOSOPHY

Be nice/read something intense/understand yourself.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

How I participate: surf, host, occasional CS gatherings.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I <3 CS and all the CS buds I've made over the years.

Interests

Traveling, reading, learning!, adventures! overeating, overdrinking, couchsufing!,...

• reading
• traveling
• guitar

Music, Movies, and Books

Books- Le Petit Prince, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Requiem for a Dream, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Middlesex, Still Life With Woodpecker, Everything is Illuminated

Music- Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Black Keys, M.I.A., Feist, Cat Power, Radio Dept., Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Iron and Wine, Jose Gonzalez, Bon Iver, Chemical Brothers.

Movies- Amelie, Paris Je T'aime, Requiem for a Dream, Broken Flowers, Lost in Translation, Zoolander, Into the Wild, Once, Vanilla Sky

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Slept on the floor next to Casey Fenton in Berlin and awkwardly hugged him goodbye in the morning. Haha. I suppose this is less amazing and more just proof that the world is small and life is weird and random.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'll trade you some French speakin' for some Spanish speakin'. I can show you how to make a pair of earrings if you show me four more chords on my guitar. And I can totally show you how to make a deliciously DELICIOUS ratatouille. I can also play "When the Saints Go Marchin' In" on the harmonica. Dig it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Morocco, United States

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