CURRENT MISSION

Working with end-of-life and palliative care patients. Currently not hosting due to life demands, but I would love to meet up.

ABOUT ME

As a person: Born and raised in Washington, I moved from a small lumber town to Seattle for college. During college I shifted my focus from mental health care to general health care. My current field is geriatric and end-of-life nursing care. Married to a wonderful woman who (oddly enough) kinda sorta looks likes me.

Smokes: No
Drinks: Yes!

As a traveler: I am very independent. Between packing light and having an innate sense of direction I am able to enjoy my destinations without too much stress. As a house guest I am neat and tiny- feel free to put me wherever you can fit me!

PHILOSOPHY

Minimalism. Literacy. Comfort. Food.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Surfing & Hosting

2010 (Surfed in Israel)
Surfed Raphael Cohen, Tel Aviv
Surfed Alon Goll, Tel Aviv
Surfed Ariel Zalmanovich, Tel Aviv

2011 (Surfed in Canada)
Surfed Ted and Lisa McMogmundie, Vancouver, BC

2012 & 2013 (Hosted in Seattle)
Hosted Liesbet Bickett (USA)
Hosted Sean Mihalik (USA)
Hosted Josh Chang (USA)
Hosted Christian Jackel (Germany)
Hosted Julie Sage (France)
Hosted Michael Garcia (USA)
Hosted Phillip Kroll (Germany)
Hosted Laura Kettner (Germany)
Hosted Telmo Martins (Portgual)
Hosted Bastien Brenu (France)
Hosted Robbie & Sonia (USA)

2014 (Surfed in Iceland)
Surfed with Dagny & Helgi (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Met up with James Maddison (Reykjavik, Iceland)

2015 (Surfed East Coast, USA and California)
Surfed with Erin Karcher (Jersey City, New Jersey)
Surfed with Ahmad Sadraei (Brooklyn, NY)
Surfed with Cary Raditz (Silver Spring , MD)
Surfed with Angel Hansen (Tehachapi, CA)

2017 (Hosted & Surfed)
Hosted Ilyana Voth and Alysha Somerton (Canada)
Surfed with Stephon Mullett (Victoria, BC)

2018 (Hosting)
Hosted Navid Bayat (Canada)

Interests

Non-School lectures. (Seattle has a venue called Town Hall which offers one-time lectures by visiting authors, scientists and celebrities.)
Reading.
Studying.
Hiking with my friends.

Truth be told, 90% of my free time involves some mix of books, eavesdropping on bus conversations, working, and school.

Social psychology- how we view other people. There is a huge gap between who we think we are, what we really are like, and how other people think of us.

• books
• dining
• drinking
• reading
• minimalism
• hiking
• surfing
• medicine
• nursing
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Half Nelson, Goodbye Lenin, The Lives of Others, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, The Graduate, Moon, Lars and the Real Girl, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Cast Away, Vanilla Sky, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill 1&2, Pulp Fiction
Music: Joanna Newsom, Sufjan Stevens, Foo Fighters, Regina Spektor, The Postal Service, Ben Folds, Gogol Bordello, Amanda Palmer, Rilo Kiley, The White Stripes, Amy Winehouse.
American Television: The Twilight Zone, Arrested Development, The Colbert Report.
Books: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, virtually anything that David Sedaris has ever jotted down, Lolita by Nabakov, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Euginides

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

PCT 2015!

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Seattle 101, intricacies of the American Healthcare system, beermosas, Seattle's awesome dress code.
Learn: Whatever you want to teach me? I'm open for any discussions that you're willing to initiate.
Share: Let's mix small slices of my life with small slices of your life.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Bitching about the American healthcare system?

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Egypt, Iceland, Israel, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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