CURRENT MISSION

Enjoy life. Plant gardens. Roam around. Find a way to make a difference.

ABOUT ME

Ready, willing and able to live. I like to have a plan...mostly because then there is something to compare new opportunities to....and if what has turned up is better, well then, chuck that plan and veer off!

It is amazing to me that I have become a teacher and a member of an organized religion. Both are chances to reach out and make a difference.

Traveling is great. Living in other locations around the world is absolutely fabulous. Composing a life with the best the world has to offer is a creative pleasure.

PHILOSOPHY

Pay attention.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Keep my eyes and heart open to life.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have official couch surfing experience. butI have been doing it all my life. I have always given hitch hikers rides and hosted friends of friends of friends. I have taken a couple of big bicycle trips and stayed with people all along the way.

Interests

It is easier to list what I am not interested in. TV and watching professional sports.

• cooking
• tv
• traveling
• cycling
• surfing
• sports
• swimming
• biology
• chemistry
• teaching
• mathematics
• religion
• science
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I read a lot. Everything.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have ridden my bike from Dayton Beach to Montreal and from Phoenix to Vancouver BC.

But the most amazing thing I have seen is the difference in the Quechua women I trained to teach nutrition to their tribeswomen in the high Andes of Peru. The photo of these 10 ladies at the beginning of the training had shy, stiff poses. No one looked at the camera. After a year they were all smiling and larking about and looking at me (the camera) with confidence and pleasure

Teach, Learn, Share

Chemistry, Biology, General Science, ESL all these are officially on my teaching certificate.

Math to pre-calculus level.

Coached swimming both in Japan and Syria.

Cooking would be big fun for me.

I would like to play my flute with patient musicians.

What I Can Share with Hosts

WIFI
cooking facilities
laundry facilities
Information about where to go and what to do.

I have private students during the week. Weekends are free.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Cambodia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Italy, Laos, Lebanon, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, England, France, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Turkey, United States