CURRENT MISSION

long term plans

ABOUT ME

i'm a beautiful disaster.

PHILOSOPHY

nothing is more practical than finding god,
that is, than falling in love
in a quite absolute, final way.

what you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination,
will affect everything.
it will decide what will get you
out of bed in the morning,
what you will do with your evenings,
how you spend your weekends,
what you read, who you know,
what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.

fall in love; stay in love,
and it will decide everything.
--pedro arrupe

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

it was a part of my job to share morocco with others, between 2007 and 2009, i did just that. now? checking in on this community once a year or less

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Unfortunately, I've only surfed once, but I love hosting!

2016:
"Green" from Cambodia

2015:
A bunch of Peace Corps volunteers

2014:
Bri: New York by way of Bouarfa, Morocco
Katherine: New Orleans by way of Rabat

2013:
Andrew and Valerie - Washington DC
Jeremy and Gurer - Annapolis, MD

2012: Started hosting again!
Steve, Jash, and Jayden - Western Australia

2011: Grad school's hard...

2010: On hiatus for most of this year.

2008-2009: I hosted nomads and first-time travelers, I cooked full meals for them, took them to Moroccan houses, and had them cook full meals for me. I traipsed through rain and mud, shivered in my icebox of a house, sweated in my oven of a house, and frolicked in the rain and the sunshine with them.

May 2008 - Sept 2009
1. Zineb - Casablanca
2. Francisco - Barcelona
3. Mike - Vancouver by way of Dublin
4. Svenja - Muenster, Germany
5,6,7. Denise (& friends) - Netherlands
8,9. Ricky & Valeria - Egypt/Spain by way of Brazil
10. Lisa - Vancouver
11. David - Montreal
12,13. Tara & Brooks - Washington, D.C.
14. Michel - Brussels
15,16. Dilip & Ana - L.A./Madrid by way of Madrid
17. Katie - Pennsylvania by way of small town France
18. Mary - London
19. Amylin - the world by way of Portugal
20. Laura - Brisbane by way of the U.K.
21,22. Heath & Raya - U.S. Midwest by way of Oxford
+++Christmas Break 2008-2009+++
23. Isaac - Brighouse, U.K.
24,25. Ralf & Yola - Dresden/Bielsko Biala by way of Warsaw
26. Jo (with Zineb!) - German Switzerland
27,28. Aurelia & John - French Switzerland/U.K.
29,30. Ross & Reed - San Diego by way of Barcelona
31,32. Stephanie (& Tim) - the world by way of Israel and Spain (& London)
33. Sunhild - small town Germany
34,35. Noe & Roberto - Burgos, Spain
36. Msgana - Hamburg
37. Andrea - Brazil by way of Poland & Paris
38. Tom - Perth by way of French Canada
39. Mihai - Romania by way of Spain
40. Jessie - Virginia by way of Malta
41. Josh - California by way of Indonesia
42. Mathias - Germany (by way of HUGE MOTORCYCLE!)
43. Vance - California
44. Daniel - Yucatán, México
45. Raunaq - India/Australia by way of California
46,47. Perneille & Fedoua - Denmark/Rabat, Morocco

Interests

traveling
listening to people's stories
sharing my own stories
swimming
writing
reading
taking pictures
making fun of tourists
eating
drinking
showering
singing
playing musical instruments badly

• writing
• singing
• cooking
• marathon
• drinking
• flying
• reading
• traveling
• hiking
• rock climbing
• swimming
• medicine
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

favorite song of the moment: 3ndou zin

favorite tv/movie of the moment: outlander

reading: lord john series

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

+meeting a muslim medicine woman full of baraka (blessings)

+visiting southern lebanon in the summer of 2013

+seeing my students actually learn what i teach them

+getting lost in the stars on a tiny lake in northern wisconsin

+climbing in pyramids at giza

+staring at the ceiling of the blue mosque in istanbul on new year's day

+talking to immigrants about to cross the us-mexico border

+traveling from marrakech to milwaukee without flying at all

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Colombia, Egypt, England, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Scotland, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Morocco, Oman, Spain, United States

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