ABOUT ME

to begin with ...
Bobby: I’m 24 and I didn’t own a passport until I was 23. I graduated from Arizona State University and grew up in Connecticut. I’m a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tonga and I love dogs.

Alicia: I grew up in the southeast US (back and forth between the metro-Atlanta area and the North Carolina coast) and graduated in 2007 from Kennesaw State University in northwest Georgia with a bachelors degree in biology. I joined Peace Corps and moved to Tonga in October 2007 to teach English in a government primary school (that’s technically my job, but I spend more time at home, reading or lounging around more than anything else); recently I’ve started hanging out with the Tonga’s Division of Fisheries’ aquaculture and community management departments.

PHILOSOPHY

Bobby: "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." -Emiliano Zapata

Alicia: "I live chaos, it’s more fun that way: you never know what’s going to happen next and half the time you can’t remember what you just did." - Me, sometime in college

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A friend ours (another volunteer) first told us about couchsurfing about a year ago and raves about it all the time. Since we both live so far outside of town, we’ve more or less had to live our couchsurfing experience vicariously through the other Peace Corps volunteers that have hosted surfers.

Interests

Bobby: UEFA Champions League, reading about everything, criticizing government bureaucracies that I happen to work for, planning trips I can’t afford

Alicia: I dabble in a little bit of everything and a lot of nothing at all just to say that I’ve been there and done that

• dogs
• raves
• reading
• fishing
• skydiving
• hang gliding
• biology
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Bobby: Rules of Attraction, Sideways, The Bourne Trilogy, Blood Diamond, Fight Club/ The Walkmen, The Verve, Spoon, My Morning Jacket, Radiohead, The Killers, Sigur Ros/ any Bill Bryson, Paul Theroux, Tony Horowitz; history and biographies

Alicia: Blood Diamond, The Departed, The Music Man, Snatch, Gone in 60 Seconds, Memento, Apocalypto, Singin' in the Rain/ The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Drowning Ruth, The Poisonwood Bible, The Lovely Bones, The God of Small Things, The Time Traveler’s Wife, One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bobby: I haven’t yet indulged in any international debauchery.

Alicia: things done: working for Peace Corps in Tonga, survived 16 straight years of school, went skydiving in Hawaii, hang gliding in Brazil, palmed the Naked Cowboy’s ass in Times Square/ things seen: the fishing pigs of Talafo’ou (no lie, it’s in the Tonga Lonely Planet … look it up), Paris at night from the top of the Eiffel Tower; the Queen of England; Rio de Janeiro from Corcovado; the Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged on two different continents

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, France, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Tonga, United States