ABOUT ME

Lover of food, people, and good conversation.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've only been a host but would love to be a guest :)
I swear couchsurfing it's harder than finding a job. No one will host you without any experience, but you can't get experience if no one will host you lol

Interests

-Intercultural communication...as a discipline, and just as a part of the human experience
-Referring to life as "the human experience" (no disrespect to all the other animals tho)
-Food and the mastication process
-Baseball, College Basketball, and just sports in general. Very few sports I don't enjoy seeing live
-Concert-going
-Drink-sipping (Sangria; Jack & Cokes; Frozen,Fresh Fruit Margaritas; Leffe Blonde Ale; and White or Red, depending on the occasion or the meal)
-Singing although many have told me it's quite painful to hear haha,
-dancing in the moonlight and in the sun
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• animals
• writing
• singing
• concerts
• dancing
• dining
• running
• drinking
• sports
• baseball
• basketball

Music, Movies, and Books

-reading, especially "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "A History of the World in 100 Objects", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Nectar in a Sieve", The first half of "Anna Karenina", poetry by Pablo Neruda, selected bell hooks and David Foster Wallace writings, and much more
-movies like "Forrest Gump", "Little Miss Sunshine", "Notting Hill" (one of the few chick flicks I allow!), "American Beauty" (but watching once is enough),"Love & Basketball", "Zoolander"
-TV, favorite shows ever: British version of "The Office";
-current Music playlist, "September", "Walking on a Dream", "Always on my Mind" by Tiki Taane, "I Love It", "Daylight" by Matt and Kim, "Young Folks", and "Hang Me Up to Dry"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveled around the world on a ship while studying and attended lectures from former Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Teach, Learn, Share

-Do betta
-Follow your heart but take your brain with you
-Ubuntu
-Economic growth is not about happiness; it's about choices.
-Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all (Favorite go to when things go awry. The glass half-full version of "my life is in shambles"
- Life is too short to waste on subpar food. Unless, you are in a food desert or economically disadvantaged and maybe the truly scathing people are those who parade their ability to freely use their income to use food as a leisure activity rather than mere sustenance. Or maybe those who assume that "first world" trivial problems are only pertinent to those in more developed countries and those who live in developing and emerging economies don't spend all of their days lamenting their supposed less fortunate status, maybe they truly are the worst. Sometimes that's how my brain works.
-Language is about effectively communicating a message, and writing is not just about grammar. That's my justification for that horrible run-on.
-Life is too short to waste on subpar food.