CURRENT MISSION

To learn about as many cultures and peoples in the world as I can! I love to meet and to be a cultural ambassador =)

ABOUT ME

I am an ISFJ: concerned with others' welfare, responsible, reserved, patient, practical, friendly, orderly, inquisitive regarding people, harm avoiding, conscientious, thorough, loyal; service-oriented.

I am a very chill person but love to go out and explore, and live to experience different things. I'm adventurous, but not irresponsible/reckless. It's more fun if I can share experiences with someone!

PHILOSOPHY

I am a very open person and look for the best in people.

For almost any language I come across, I always try to learn to say at least "Hello, Good Bye, and Thank You". I think that people appreciate it when you try to communicate with them in the native language of their heart and sould.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would love to both host people visiting NYC, but also be a cultural ambassador to other people that I stay with! I hate inconveniencing other people, and would not be a needy hostee at all. I just need a place to crash and lay my head at night!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm new at hosting, but have been to a couple of Couchsurfing Parties with friends who are CS veterans. They were always a fun time!

Interests

My interest in things are eclectic, from going to classical music concerts at Carnegie Hall to random cultural street festivals/parades in NYC, visiting a museum that I've never been to or haven't seen all of the exhibits at, or going to anime conventions on the east coast. Finally my culture is very important to me; but God is the most important of all.

• culture
• concerts
• festivals
• dining
• partying
• anime
• music
• classical music
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Tamora Pierce, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Poisonwood Bible, The Namesake, Purple Hibiscus, The Color of Water, Harry Potter, Twilight series, I Wish I Had More Time to Read for Pleasure

Anime: Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan), Death Note, Code Geass, Gundam SEED, Cowboy Bebop, all time favorite: Samurai X (Rurouni Kenshin OVA), and many more

Movies:
Osuofia in London, The Last Samurai, Inception, Memento, The Butterfly Effect, Psychological thrillers, Movies With Good Fight Sequences, Movies Where You Can't Predict the Ending

Shows: Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey

Music:
All sorts of music! People look at my iTunes and are like, what IS this/where did it all come from? Japanese Pop, Utada Hikaru, ??? Jay Chou, Ayumi Hamasaki, Christian rock, newsboys (official), French Rap, 113, Magic System, NAIJA BOYZ, Styl-Plus, Fela, Beethoven, Switchfoot, Romantic music, Classical music, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Chopin, Yoko Kanno, Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, Ghost in the Shell, Nobuo Uematsu, Taku Iwasaki, Hans Zimmer, The Lion King, The Last Samurai, The Prince of Egypt, Gladiator

Food:
I like all sorts of different ethnic foods! I am not picky at all and I always like to try new things.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Climbed through rope bridges in a Ghanaian rain forest

- Hiked to the top of a volcano in Japan
- Completed entire Fushimi Inari trail in Kyoto, Japan
- Visited sulfur Japanese onsens

- Went to the top of the Empire State Building (after looking at it out of my window for two years!) with a complete stranger from Israel that I had met on the bus from Philadelphia the day before!

- Earned a black belt in Jiujitsu

Teach, Learn, Share

As my parents are from Nigeria, I can teach you how to make good Nigerian food!

As a healthcare professional in medicine and public health, I can share my experiences with that in the United States (but that's more boring stuff =P). The good thing is that I know how to do CPR ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Ghana, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Japan, United States