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Overview
About Me
ABOUT ME
Ph.D. student in USA. I primarily document Naso, an endangered indigenous language in Panama.
Trained as a psychologist, practiced as linguist, with the heart of an artist.
I go native every time. Some people call me a chameleon.
I'm a capoeirista! Would love to meet others around the globe...
PHILOSOPHY
life as art
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
Have hosted surfers in Istanbul, North Carolina, Bulgaria, New York. Meet great people everywhere!
used to host potlucks in New York weekly (between 50 and 70 guests every timeǃ)
Interests
meeting new people and connecting.
experimental sounds, sights, and cognition-- seeing art everywhere
appreciation and documentation of endangered languages and cultures.
- fish
- arts
- running
- fishing
- languages
- psychology
- mountains
Music, Movies, and Books
some film directors- tarkovsky, chahine, masumura, antonioni, bergman, yoshida, rasoulof, paradjanov, bresson, teshigahara, chytilova etc.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
When the rain storms flood the terrain in Panamanian mountains and indigenous wounaan people run out to catch (nets, machetes, bare hands) thousands of fish that have been rerouted to new streams.
What I Can Share with Hosts
my experience with indigenous people and languages in central america
Countries I’ve Visited
Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua
Countries I’ve Lived In
Colombia, Panama, Turkey, United States, Venezuela