CURRENT MISSION

Respect the land. Defend the defenseless. And don't never spit in front of women or children.

ABOUT ME

If you asked my friends about me they would probably say that I'm outgoing and funny, but not overly so, like that annoying friend that everybody has. They would say that I'm nice and that I do my best to put others before myself. If you were talking to one of my high school friends, they would say that I'm really smart. If you asked some of my engineering friends from college, they would say I'm of average intelligence. I would agree with both groups; in an average group I would be considered an academic, but in an academic group I would be considered average. I have an analytical brain, but I fight the natural cynicism with optimism and good jokes (like puns, which everyone knows is the highest form of humor).

PHILOSOPHY

I took it for a semester in college.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I don't have a place of my own quite yet, but when I do I plan to host as much as possible!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was fortunate to get an internship at NASA in summer 2012 and had to drive from Arkansas to California. I got the chance to stay with two awesome hosts in Amarillo and Flagstaff. It was great! I am definitely optimistic about any future Couchsurfing experiences.

Interests

I really enjoy organizing things. I think it is fun to label songs on my iTunes and sort my class papers at the end of each semester. I like to consider myself an opponent of entropy. But I should stop talking about that because I bet you are thinking that I'm a bit of a weirdo by now. Lets start over...

I really enjoy socializing with people, both people with similar interests and people that are from different demographics or cultures. Because we live near the state's largest university my family has had the opportunity to host many international students over several years. That is probably the reason that I am so interested in traveling and experiencing different locations and cultures. I love to see creation and give credit to the one who is responsible for it, which leads me to another passion. I enjoy discussing all kinds of religious beliefs. It is a good way to bond with someone as well as contemplate life's greatest questions; if there is Truth out there, I want to do all I can to know of it. To lighten things up here at the end, I've made a list of other, more trivial interests: playing piano, singing, reading, the inner-workings of machines, critiquing movies, telling jokes, making things, science fiction, and more stuff I'll probably remember tomorrow.

• singing
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• piano
• hiking
• surfing
• engineering
• science
• statistics
• mountains
• scale models

Music, Movies, and Books

I look for good songs, not good artists. This results in my having 2 artists for every 3 songs and a wide range of genres in my music library. The only music I can't stand is Screamo and contemporary Rap.

I consider myself a minor movie critic. I think all movies should be tackled with the brain turned on, giving an "education" rather than mere "entertainment". I keep a list of the movies I've watched and rank them so that I don't end up re-watching a movie I didn't like. A few of my favorites are Lord of the Rings, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Gladiator, The Bucket List, Cloud Atlas, The Prince of Egypt, The Shawshank Redemption, Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Inception.

I think books are better than movies in nearly every way and I seem to enjoy 90% of the books I read, whereas I only really enjoy about 25% of the movies I watch. Some of my favorite books are Harry Potter, The Last Jihad series by Joel Rosenburg, Tactics by Gregory Koukl, The Inheritance Cycle, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, and Sherlock Holmes.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My Couch Surfing profile picture is one of them; I was hiking with my family in Grand Teton National Park and there was a beautiful valley high up on the mountain. If you were where I was standing in that picture, you would be looking out of the raised valley down onto a massive lake with many more mountains far in the distance.

Other moments that take my breath away are when I sit down and contemplate the vastness of the universe. Whether that's at my computer looking at facts and statistics or whether I am outside at night in a rural area, looking at the vivid stars. It never ceases to amaze me noticing how big the universe is and how small I am.

More awe inspiring things appeal to my inner engineer are massive structures as well as nano structures. I am always blown away by the complexity of the things that a group of people can create by working together.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United States