CURRENT MISSION

to explore the world

ABOUT ME

I am a teacher and a student on this planet.

PHILOSOPHY

I continually strive to use my expectations as a tool for my dreams but not as a captor of reality.

"Expectations are at once our strength and a folly: We have the power to dream in ideals which give us some sense of a perfection to be reached for, and at the same time we limit our experience of what is real by attempting to define and control something that cannot be defined or controlled, only understood intuitively. That understanding demands a certain flexibility that is much less attractive than it's archetypical representation which lives in our hearts and minds".

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I believe in the concept and hope to met others that actually live it.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Some bad, some good but I'm still going to give it a try.

Interests

dancing, world travel, Art Nouveau, spelunking/cave exploration, yummy vegan food!!, bats, chai soy lattes, snowboarding, rock climbing, Ahimsa, animal rights, seahorses, creating Art, DIY

• animals
• arts
• diy
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• vegan
• drinking
• traveling
• spelunking
• snowboarding
• rock climbing
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Pan's Labryinth, Immortel, Metropolis, 12monkeys, La Planète sauvage (Fantastic Planet), blade runner, Stigmata, It (with Clara Bow), Elizabeth, Y tu mamá también, secretary, Amelie, The City of Lost Children, Meet Your Meat, Resevoir Dogs, Old Boy, the HOST, the Restless, Tank Girl, beetlejuice, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the Lost Boys, sleepy hollow, 3amigos, gremlins, Stargate, Cry-baby, Pretty in Pink, corpsebride, Heathers, the fifth element, Princess Bride, Alien, High Art, Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the Professional, Taxi Driver, Like Water for Chocolate, Never Ending story, Orlando, Mars Attacks!, Dune, LOTR trilogy, Kama Sutra, the Mission, Labyrinth, edward scissorhands, breakfast club, Witches, El Mariachi, Sid and Nancy, Kill Bill, anything by Pedro Almodóvar...

Music:ethereal, punk, jazz, electronic, dream pop, darkwave, ebm, industrial, goth...
clan of xymox, David Bowie, lush, nina simone, covenant, Johnny Cash, Juan Gabriel, Skinny Puppy, Concrete Blond, Nick Cave, tear garden, siouxsie and the banshees, Death in June, Leonard Cohen, Cruxshadows, Alien Sex Fiend, wumpscut, KMFDM, Love and Rockets, Daniel Ash, wolfsheim, the smiths, My life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Sopor Aeternus, depeche mode, And One, New Order, Ohgr, Heimataerde, Cocteau Twins, Morrissey, Sonic Youth, cranes, Kate Bush, dead can dance, Pixies, Dick Dale, Bikini Kill, Peter Murphy, the cramps, Ramones, the clash, Voltaire and so much more...

Books: magical realism, Southern Gothic writers, the Grotesque, existentialism, historical fiction, Apocrypha, mythology, science fiction, fantasy, philosophy, Art books, travel books.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I symbolically and quite literally rang in the new year (2008) with my good friends in Nagoya. We stood around a bon fire drinking sake at a Shinto shrine a few steps from their house with the neighborhood, it was wonderful.
Then we drove to the sea and froze our butts off waiting for the sunrise. It was like nothing I have ever seen. A gigantic golden sphere rose from the sea. It's intense bursts of gold rays almost blinded me but I looked forward and couldn't look away.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to cook a mean tofu scramble, yummy vegan Mexican green chile and I can cook almost any Mexican dish veggie style.
I can also teach you English or Spanish. And I've been told I'm "crafty" so be prepared for a DIY diva... hahaha! ;P

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Laos, Mexico, Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea, Spain, United States

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