CURRENT MISSION

Traveling the globe is not a hobby but a lifestyle.

ABOUT ME

i'm a portuguese speaking, Nigerian-food loving, antiguan rum drinking, spanish soap-opera watching, wing chung fighting machine.

as for the rest of my life story, i'll have to tell you in person.

PHILOSOPHY

"there is no work more noble than that which stands to improve the human condition"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am looking forward to hosting people!

Interests

Chilling and Hanging Out, Intelligent Conversation, Online Window Shopping, Learning Random Languages, Traveling, Making New Friends

• dining
• drinking
• shopping
• traveling
• knitting
• opera
• languages
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

really too many books to name them all.
Poisonwood Bible, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Middlesex, Blink, Shantaram, Ann Rice Vampire Chronicles, Cien Anos de Soledad, East of Eden, Invisible Man are among my favorites

Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Kill Bill, High School Musical, High School Musical 2, Apocalypto, Blood Diamond, Time for Love, Zoolander, The Piano, Gattaca, Death to Smoochy, X2, Lion King, Black Orpheus, American Pie Presents: The Book of Love

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

rode on a royal enfield motorcycle through New Delhi, buried the dead baby of a woman that gave birth on the side of the road in northern ethiopia, ate chapulines in oaxaca mexico, lived in a housing project with my students in new haven ct, shook the hand of former President Bill Clinton, petted a jaguar in manaus, brasil, been to a traditional medicine man in ijedbu-ode in nigeria

Teach, Learn, Share

basic principles of modern day healthcare, knitting, crocheting, how to make key chains out of lanyard, hula hooping, build a log cabin (advice, not the actual course)

Countries I’ve Visited

Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, France, India, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ethiopia, Panama, United States

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