CURRENT MISSION

Surf the Pacific Rim

ABOUT ME

I'm a haole boy from Hawai`i. I was born on Maui, spent most of my life on the Big Island, a year in Vancouver, three years in Fukuoka, Japan, and this year I am heading to Geramany for graduate school. I graduated from the University of Hawai`i at Hilo in 2012, and then I was accepted to be an assistant teacher in Japan through the JET program.

PHILOSOPHY

Beach.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I used to host a lot of people when I lived in Japan and enjoyed the company of everyone I met. I haven't been a guest yet, but I'll be traveling a lot this year and was hoping to experience the other side of couchsurfing in 2016!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted:
Beatrice- 1 night
Antony- 1 night
Maria and Virgil- 1 night
Becky and Lauren- 3 nights
Martyna and the Carolinas- 1 night
Raphael- 1 night
Coco and Foco- 2 nights
Dai- 1 night
Travis- 1 night
Benjamin and Katarina- 4 nights
Lee- 1 night
Eva and Eric- 1 night
RiRi- 2 nights
Amine, Misung and Stefanie- 1 night
Ivana and Lola- 1 night
Jennifer- 2 nights
Kat and Alex- 3 nights
Felicia and Christian- 2 nights
Paul and his two friends whose names I can't remember, I'm sorry two friends- 1 night
Leo- 3 nights
Mirlanda- 1 night
Debbie- 2 nights
Ohad and Dor- 2 nights
Hagai- 2 nights
Erwann, Nail et Marie- 1 night
Paul-1 night
Dan and Amalia- 2 nights

Interests

I love... Surfing (the ocean kind), (Horror) movies, Food, Language, Tennis, The Art of Conversation, Writing, and Being Weird

• arts
• writing
• documentaries
• dancing
• dining
• chocolate
• movies
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• tennis
• golf
• dialects
• teaching
• hitchhiking
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Some Favorite People:

Philip Roth, Irvine Welsh, Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman, Ernest Hemmingway, Albert Camus, James Joyce, Larry David, Beat Takeshi, Laird Hamilton

Some Favorite Music:

Arcade Fire, The Avalanches, Beat Happening, Belle and Sebastian, Blur, The Clash, Clap your Hands Say Yeah, Deerhunter, Dr. Dog, The Flaming Lips, Laika and the Cosmonauts, The Mad Conductor, Madvillain, Mother Mother, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nujabes, Onra, The Pillows, Pixies, Queen, RJD2, Takeshi Terauchi, Timber Timbre, The Velvet Underground, Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs,

Favorite Movie Genres:

Horror: Braindead/Dead Alive, The Revenant, Triangle, The Signal, The Loved Ones, Re-Animator, Martyrs, High Tension, The Devil's Backbone, The Orphanage, The Cell, Session 9, May, Ringu, Ju-on, The Descent, The Host, Slither, Planet Terror, V/H/S, V/H/S/2 [Rec]1-3, Pontypool, Dead Snow, Antichrist, Splinter, The Midnight Meat Train, The Ruins, Teeth, A Serbian Film, The Strangers, Cabin in the Woods, American Psycho, Creep, The List, The Theatre Bizarre, Body Bags, Tales from the Crypt

Dark/Horror/Off-color Comedy: Very Bad Things, Death Becomes Her, World's Greatest Dad, Fargo, Burn After Reading, Being John Malkovich, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Storytelling, A Serious Man, Barton Fink, After Hours, In Bruges, Adaptation, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harold and Maude, Dr. Strangelove, Snatch, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Adam's Apples, Trainspotting, The Acid House, Little Miss Sunshine, Delicatessen, The Big Lebowski, The Royal Tennenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, The Life Aquatic, Sideways, About Schmidt, Attack the Block, Shaun of the Dead, Seven Psychopaths, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Black Sheep, Gummo, Feast

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I was seven years old I crashed a golf-cart into a small prop plane just as it was about to take off, nearly decapitating myself.

Teach, Learn, Share

Things I've learned:
Antony: "Quatre-vingt" is not some archaic, backwards product of old French textbooks but is quite new and created by bored Frenchmen in the renaissance.
Maria and Virgil: There are tribes in the Canary Islands, the Andes, and various other places that communicate entirely with whistles.
Beatrice: Canadians are not born with a "survive in the cold gene" (also I am only the 3rd worst Mario Kart player"
Becky and Lauren: The meaning of Mardy Bum, Twangy, and all the various dialects of the U.K. I also learned that through couchsurfing you can really build some genuine friendships.
Maryna and the Carolinas: Hitchhiking is easy in Japan!
Raphael: In Mongolia, you can get a haircut for 50 cents.
Coco and Foco: Indirect lesson from a lady on the bus, "White people are beautiful!"
Dai- Don't be afraid to salsa!
Travis- How to travel across the globe with 400 dollars
Benjamin and Katarina- I learned about new music, Belgian dialect discrimination, crazy Indian penis-sword dancing...and that washing your socks is important!!
Lee- The more you travel the more you realize people everywhere are the same, everyone works and has families and does normal things. Also I learned about "mild Scottish"
Eva and Eric- Some people live in constant preparation for the next natural disaster, and that cities may be the worst place to be in such an event...
RiRi- She was actually the first Indonesian person I met, so I enjoyed learning about her country and she gave me amazing chocolate.
Amine, Misung and Stefanie- They taught me about some crazy website where you travel with strangers, but I forget the name. Germans are cool! Also, random Japanese men love German women. Severely under-aged French girls don't stop them either.
Ivana and Lola- In 10 years, you're gonna look back and think, hey I was pretty cool!
Jennifer- You don't really, actually need more than two shirts if you do laundry often when traveling.
Alleykat- They made me feel like a lazy slob, and that I should get off my butt and do something crazy.
Felicia and Christian- We watched an interesting documentary and had a discussion about the Chinese beliefs in the healing powers of eating Seahorses etc.
Paul and friends- I learned that the one time I went to that one town in Norway would actually result in a conversation point someday!
Leo- Leo taught me some German I don't remember. He also told me about his travels and scary encounters in South America. We had a lot of good talks.
Mirlanda- She made me think about Japan not as a "tourist" entity in a traditional sense, but just a genuine experience that you can choose to take.
Ohad and Dor- I learned a lot about kosher food and what a challenge it is to make in Japan.
Hagai- I remembered a little how I shouldn't take life so seriously.
Erwann, Nail et Marie- Arabic numbers are wayyyyy tooooo harrrddd
Paul- Added some good music videos to my list!
Dan and Amalia- I'm always fascinated by the Israeli perspective on things, on how tired they get tired of the same topics while traveling, on how they view the Jewish American communities from within and without, it is all very interesting.
Hiro- I learned a lot more about the symbolism of the Hiroshima peace park than i could have seen on my own.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Philippines, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Japan, United States