I teach Art at my old high school in Gainesville, FL. I really like to eat. Food. Yay. Food. Food. Mm. Food.

I love simple things and I'm a generally quiet (in my past-times) person. I am a loud human being in that I play instruments and talk incessantly. I hardly drink, and I don't like large screaming crowds.

Also, I am laid forward, hard going, lukewarm, closed minded and hate traveling and meeting people from different cultures or learning new languages.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I couchsurf and I host.
Surfers - 130:
[Gainesville, FL - 9] [Hsinchu, Taiwan - 11] [Bangkok, Thailand - 85] [Chicago, IL, USA - 25]
Hosts - 150:
Total: 249 Experiences
[2010 - 22] [2011 - 42] [2012 - 1] [2013 -9] [2014 -27] [2015 - 9] [2016 - 17] [2017 - 12] [2018 - 11] [2019 - ?]

Interests

Food, eating, cooking, drawing, music, writing, climbing, the outdoors (sometimes), wandering, conversation, being spontaneous, stuffed animals, getting ill, teaching well.

• arts
• writing
• singing
• design
• photography
• dining
• italian food
• cooking
• chinese food
• japanese food
• traveling
• socializing
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• piano
• violin
• outdoor activities
• rock climbing
• art history
• languages
• food
• korean food
• thai food
• malaysian food
• burmese food
• taiwanese food

Music, Movies, and Books

Listening to a lot of Kyrgyz/Tuvan/Buryat/Mongolian music after going to Голос Кочевников and spending last summer mostly in Central Asia.

Hm, the easiest thing I can do here is plug my old bands. I should probably start a new one...

Next Door Neighbors 隔壁鄰居 https://www.facebook.com/lakeartneighbors
Betelnut Boys 檳榔男孩 https://www.facebook.com/betelnutboys
Lover's Eyes https://www.facebook.com/LoversEyesBand

I've developed a habit of going to the local library and choosing six CDs that I know little about to listen to - usually from the "world" section. Otherwise, artists I've met or know through a friend: Plume Giant, Peter Hochstedler, Kina Grannis, etc. I also rather appreciate "classical" music having been a violinist most my life - mostly of the romantic variety - less the atonal or Handelish stuff.

Currently reading The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, need to restart อตีดอยู่ข้างหน้า อนาคตอยู่ข้างหลัง, and need to build up the discipline to read something in Russian. I enjoy fantasy and science fiction, and just finished Brent Weeks's Lightbringer Series (and was disappointed by its ending). I really enjoyed Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea cycle - an overlap of my two favourite leisure reading genres: children's literature and the above-mentioned scifi/fantasy. Bridge to Terabithia remains one of my favourite novels of all time. Jonathan Livingston Seagull is up there too. Oh yea, and Avi's Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name.

My favourite movie is probably 悲情城市. Then Enchanted/Stardust. Then My Neighbor Totoro/Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Somewhere down the line are movies like Ida, El Laberinto del Fauno, and Человек с киноаппаратом. And TV shows are easy. I watch few. Battlestar Galactica, Avatar the Last Airbender - in that order. I used to watch a lot of anime, too. So mostly older stuff like Bebop, Trigun, Slayers, Love Hina, KareKano, etc.

Nowadays this should be YouTube and streamers, shouldn't it? In that case: Smarter Every Day, Wintergatan, Rachel & Jun (and Jun's Kitchen), Igudesman and Joo, Cinema Wins, Door Monster, Geography Now, Nigahiga, Namewee, Viva La Dirt League.

I watch/listen to a lot of professional Starcraft 2. On drives to and from work I listen to a few podcasts - Omnivore (Thai), Witcast (Thai), Slow Russian, and The Pylon Show.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Busking on the Charles Bridge.
Defender of the Faith, Squamish.
Ramen Museum, ShinYokohama.
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Teach, Learn, Share

This ought to be a Venn diagram...

cooking, drawing, photography, pedagogy, guitar, piano, violin, singing, busking, writing, climbing, web design, languages, finding peace, laughter, memories

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, Croatia, France, Taiwan, Thailand, United States

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