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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Learn how to cook tasty healthy food
ABOUT ME
I'm from Northern California, went to graduate school in Washington DC, I've lived in South Africa, and Spain for a year. Now I've got a regular job - so I'll have to live vicariously through surfers :)
I'm fairly liberal, easy to get along with. I used to say I'm an introvert, I suppose I don't mind my own company but in the last few years I've become more outgoing.
PHILOSOPHY
I beg you âÃâ¬Ã¦ have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. donâÃâ¬Ãâ¢t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. and the point is, to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer
-rainer maria rilke-
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Events, hosting, hopefully surfing soon.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I've hosted once, and gone to a few events. Friends of mine have been more involved and love it.
Interests
Fiddle, music, piano, reading, hiking, cycling, knitting, languages, working out
- books
- dining
- cooking
- recipes
- working out
- reading
- knitting
- music
- piano
- cycling
- hiking
- teaching
- languages
- fiddle
Music, Movies, and Books
Old time (appalachian), folk, indie, rock, irish.
Books: My Antonia by Willa Cather, A primate's memoir by Robert Sapolsky, Science Fiction - The Mars Trilogy, Hunger Games, and a bunch of others - Alexander McCall Smith, John Steinbeck and I'm always up for recommendations.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Looked over the edge of Victoria Falls at Devil's pool.
Teach, Learn, Share
Teach: Well I was a teacher so I could teach you linguistics. I play fiddle so I could teach you some music, or any other languages I've learned. Knitting
Share: languages, recipes - I'm not a great cook, but I'm learning (I like generally healthy food), music
Learn: Languages (Spanish, Norwegian, Turkish, South African Sign Language), music, cooking, machine learning, Perl/Python & Matlab programming
Countries I’ve Visited
Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Countries I’ve Lived In
Norway, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United States