Ali Zaidi's Photo

Verified Profile

  • Payment verified
  • Phone not verified
  • Government ID not verified
  • Address Verified

Wants to Meet Up

  • Last login almost 15 years ago

Join Couchsurfing to see Ali’s full profile.

Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Spanish, Urdu
  • 46, Other
  • Member since 2007
  • Physician
  • Stanford University - bachelor's, UCSF - medical degree
  • From Fremont, California
  • Profile 100% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Meet cool people on the journey of life

ABOUT ME

My wife and I moved to Philadelphia in the summer of 2006, so that I could start my ophthalmology residency at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is a city that grows on you. We didn't like it very much at first, especially compared to San Francisco and Boston where we had lived before. However, we have found some affordable restaurants, made some new friends, and adjusted to life out in this gritty, hard working city.

PHILOSOPHY

Be good to others

Interests

We are interested in good food, stimulating books, world travel, and sports.

  • books
  • dining
  • cooking
  • indian food
  • traveling
  • outdoor activities
  • sports
  • biology

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent a year teaching biology in Casablanca, Morocco. Volunteered at Operation Smile and saw the most amazing, life-transforming surgeries on children with cleft-lips.

Spent a month in South Africa driving around the country and exploring the outdoors.

Have delivered babies, treated people with gunshot wounds, and done eye surgery to cure the blind.

Spent a month in Ecuador learning Spanish, but that was years ago

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach how to cook great Indian food.

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy, South Africa

Countries I’ve Lived In

Morocco, United States

Old School Badges

  • Pioneer Badge

Join Couchsurfing to see Ali’s full profile.