CURRENT MISSION

Find a mission

ABOUT ME

I worked for an outdoor therapy program with at-risk teens for a year and a half, Eckerd Youth Alternatives Camp E-Ku-Sumee, Candor, NC. I mostly miss it.

Travel across the US and around East Asia keeps me buzzing.

In Beijing, I explore hutongs, markets, and parks whenever unoccupied. Otherwise I teach and organize hikes through Culture Yard (or test-runs, which you're welcome to join).

Friendly, awkward, hopefully helpful, and love teaching people contra-dancing in bars or street corners.

PHILOSOPHY

Help. And dance. I'm trying to get better at both.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've mainly couchsurfed with others or had coffee and potlucks with new people to the area, building up CS debt for when I have some living space of my own.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've played beach volleyball with twenty others during a CSer's birthday in Vancouver, met with new CS friends for karaoke while passing briefly through town, driven three hours into the wilderness for a meteor shower then driven back at 5am, introduced some to the awesomeness of contra dancing in North Carolina, shared a Thanksgiving dinner of Mexican food in Beijing, and generally have had sweet experiences.

The CS communities of Kansas City and Vancouver, BC, get props for their hospitality and fun.

Interests

Hiking, people, story-telling, music, books, current events, religion, art, contra-dancing.

• arts
• culture
• books
• dancing
• dining
• coffee
• mexican food
• movies
• traveling
• music
• karaoke
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• camping
• volleyball
• religion
• beaches
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite books: True History of the Kelly Gang, All the Pretty Horses, The Road, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Favorite music: The Black Keys, Streetlight Manifesto, Jeff Buckley, Billie Holiday, Sufjan Stevens

Favorite movies: No Country for Old Men, Stranger Than Fiction, Zero Effect, Frighteners, Iron Man.

I usually carry a jump drive with 8GB of music to share. Copy as much as you like, and recommend me new music. Book swaps are also good.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Working a year-and-a-half with at-risk teens.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Contra-dancing
Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (fancy)
Jiu-Jitsu (I'm rusty, but I promise not to drop you in the process)
English, more written than oral (ESL's made me confused)

Learn: Stories
Smart art (words, pictures, movies, buildings, ideas)
Survivalism
Favorite anything

Countries I’ve Visited

China, France, Israel, Laos, Netherlands, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States, Virgin Islands, U.S.

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