CURRENT MISSION

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming swimming

ABOUT ME

I love to travel, and I want to see the entire world. I also want to save the world. No, really. Maybe not alone, but I think it's my responsibility to use whatever gifts I was lucky enough to have been born with to help people. Someday, that will mean a career in medicine or diplomacy, but for now, it means showing as many people as I can that people from the US aren't all loud, arrogant idiots (some of us are quieter idiots, ha).

One of my favorite quotes:
"It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries…. If we will make the right choice, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." - MLK, Jr.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Just found the site recently, but it really speaks to what I think travelling is all about - meeting great people all over the world, and seeing what makes us different, and the same. I pledge to do my best to support this amazing endeavor, however I can!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm a newbie, but I had a great time hosting my friend Meredith a few weeks ago, and showing her around Oxford!

Interests

• traveling
• swimming
• biology
• genealogy
• medicine
• neuroscience
• psychology
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Live and Become, Syriana, Divided We Fall, Donnie Darko, The Guru, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Fifth Element, Lost in Translation, Men in Black, Blow, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Quick and the Dead, The Killer, La Femme Nikita, The Professional, The Illusionist, Casino Royale, Kill Bill, Grindhouse, Cemetary Man, anything and everything by Akira Kurosawa, Lord of War, Night Watch, Day Watch

Music: Madvillain, MF Doom, Tom Waits, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, Damian Marley, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, OutKast, DJ Rap, Parliament, Postal Service, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Ludacris, Reverend Horton Heat, Crystal Method, Nappy Roots, Basement Jaxx, Gorillaz, Tribe Called Quest, Joan Jett, David Bowie, Garbage, Fear Factory, Gnarls Barkley, Jaco Pastorius, Jeff Buckley, Joss Stone, The Killers, Lady Sovereign, Liz Phair, M.I.A., Murs, Panjabi MC, The Pixies, The Roots, Sia, Thievery Corporation, U.N.K.L.E.

Books: Ishmael, Imajica, Lolita, Story of B, His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass), The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Lord of the Rings, Neverwhere, The Gunslinger, The Great and Secret Show, Weaveworld, Towing Jehovah, Forms of Heaven, 1491, Hardcore Zen, Harry Potter, Naked Pictures of Famous People

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm a bit of a geek, and I love to teach, so I can tell you all about computers, biology, genetics, neuroscience, psychology...I just spent a term studying Ancient Greek and Roman religions and perceptions of gender and sexuality, too, if that's of any interest :-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Morocco, Spain, Thailand, Tunisia, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, United Kingdom, United States

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