Rhode Island grad student.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

sunshine, moonlight, good times...boogie (but actually: finding a place to crash for a few hours before an early flight).

Interests

- plants / traditional botanical knowledge, history of medicine, medical anthropology...
- art (looking at it and creating it!)
- music (learning and jamming)
- Russian
- frolicking
- mixed martial arts

• arts
• humanities
• literature
• painting
• drawing
• backpacking
• camping
• anthropology
• biology
• history
• marine science
• performance art
• muay thai
• physiology

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: the Orpheus trilogy by Cocteau, the Seventh Seal, the Ninth Gate, Hurricane Bianca, anything Mel Brooks, what we do in the shadows

TV: rupaul's drag race

Books: The Brothers Karamazov, Master and Margarita, Invitation to a Beheading, The Sparrow, collection of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I wrote a thesis!

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: random things I'm nerdy about...spiritual and metaphysical ideas...joie de vivre
Learn: all the things
Share: stories, smiles, songs, snacks...so much consonance hehe

What I Can Share with Hosts

- can give psychic/tarot readings
- draw pictures/portraits
- always up for an adventure, learn new things about people and places and diving right in...embracing a new experience
- intelligent / deep conversation
- respect and conscientiousness !!
- smiles and weirdness and killer dance moves

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain, United Kingdom