CURRENT MISSION

I've been in Chiang Mai, Thailand for the summer, doing an internship at an NGO school related to my school program, so doing a good job with that.

ABOUT ME

I don't like sleeping for less than 8 hours, but I do it every day. I guess that makes me kind of an idiot. In general, I like to think and use my brain, and am curious and very open to new experiences. I don't think people need a lot of material comfort to be happy.

PHILOSOPHY

There is humor in everything.

Most experiences are valuable, even if they're bad.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have surfed and hosted regularly at various points in my life, starting in 2007. I would guess I've had about 30-40 experiences in total, roughly split between surfing and hosting. For a time I went to couchsurfing meetings in Budapest to meet people and be social, and have participated occasionally in other CS events in several places... weekly meetups, language exchanges, etc... I've also introduced a bunch of people to the website.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

usually good

Interests

music, cooking/eating, reading books, thinking, riding bikes, camping/nature, history, global politics...

• books
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• drinking
• politics
• reading
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• surfing
• sailing
• track and field
• history
• language exchange

Music, Movies, and Books

Books by Kurt Vonnegut, John Steinbeck, Earnest Hemmingway, Milan Kundera, John Fante, Joseph Heller, Herman Hesse, Nikos Kazantzakis, Vladimir Nabakov, George Orwell, and a lot more

Music includes Led Zeppelin, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Bob Marley, Israel Vibrations, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Waits, Parliament, John McLaughlin, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Paco de Lucia, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Monk, Coltrane, Sublime, Palestrina, Manu Chao, Neil Young, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, Fela Kuti, Eric Dolphy, Groundation, Alice in Chains, Sublime, The Meat Puppets, Antonio Munches, Frank Zappa, The Notorious B.I.G., Eazy-E, Howlin' Wolf the list goes on and on

I like funny movies. the big lebowski is a good one.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I rode a bicycle from Portugal to China

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you about music theory if you care to learn, or more likely, I have played guitar for a long time and can show you whatever i know about that, I can teach you how to cook some tasty food, I know a fair bit about certain topics, mostly those related to people and the things they do (history, politics, language, other cultures, etc).

I will learn about almost anything.

Sharing is good.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Hungary, Spain, Thailand, United States

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