CURRENT MISSION

figuring out if curiosity will really kill the cat

ABOUT ME

Student, student, student

of life.

in life.

for life.

Life is a changing.

Accidental romantic, therefore purposefully objective, curious, and analytical (often too much so). Also enjoy smiles, roasted espresso beans covered in dark chocolate, Rioja wines, white v-necks, and finding comfort in discomfort.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is a process.
3's a charm.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Encouraging Japanese children and 65 year old Iraqi leaders to join the network.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

- 2006, Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg (while riding the Trans-siberian railroad)
- 2006, USA: Minneapolis (while hosting Estonians and Californians)
- 2007, Sweden: Västerås, Uppsala, Umeå , Stockholm, and Göteburg (while attempting to do research for about two months)
- 2008, Turkey: İstanbul, İzmir, Ayvalik, Antalya (while studying and loving)
- 2008, USA: San Francisco and Washington D.C. (while considering a move)
- 2009, China: Shanghai, Guilin, Nanning (while not fully understanding why I was there)
- 2009, USA: Minneapolis (hosted, hosted, hosted)
- 2010, USA: Minneapolis (doing some more hosting)
- 2011, USA: Minneapolis (getting back into the swing of hosting later this summer)

Interests

Sports (soccer, rock climbing and bouldering, running, slacklining, snowboarding/skiing, tennis, and skydiving); reading; drinking too much tea/wine/coffee; investing; making analogies; discovering cultural activities wherever I am; Göteburg's archipelago; and of course, food.

• cats
• culture
• dining
• chocolate
• wine
• coffee
• picnic
• running
• drinking
• reading
• bouldering
• investing
• skydiving
• skiing
• snowboarding
• sports
• rock climbing
• soccer
• tennis
• emergency services

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Tekkonkinkreet, Miyazaki's animations, Old Boy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Memento, Dark Knight, No Country for Old Men.

Music: Lounge (Buddha Bar), techno (Morgan Page, Kaskade), Lykke Li, Thao Nguyen, Coltrane, Santigold, CSS, and the list goes on. Open to a lot more though.

Books: Maps of Time. New Times in Modern Japan. Anything by Hermann Hesse. Tom Robbins.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bribed by Russian police.
Jumped from several airplanes.
Witnessed a group of Turks physically relocate a car that was obstructing traffic.
Enjoyed dinner in a thunderstorm on the shore of Lake Baikal.
Slept on the stairs of a Tokyo train station.
Snowboarded in the Austrian alps.
Learned to bake strawberry rhubarb pie from scratch in Västerås after having a picnic in a cemetery.

Teach, Learn, Share

One or two people (or maybe more if they are sneaky/mean enough) rob you, not a city, country or culture.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brazil, China, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Mongolia, Poland, Russian Federation, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United States

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