CURRENT MISSION

Learn how to cook tasty healthy food

ABOUT ME

I'm from Northern California, went to graduate school in Washington DC, I've lived in South Africa, and Spain for a year. Now I've got a regular job - so I'll have to live vicariously through surfers :)
I'm fairly liberal, easy to get along with. I used to say I'm an introvert, I suppose I don't mind my own company but in the last few years I've become more outgoing.

PHILOSOPHY

I beg you … have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. and the point is, to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer
-rainer maria rilke-

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Events, hosting, hopefully surfing soon.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted once, and gone to a few events. Friends of mine have been more involved and love it.

Interests

Fiddle, music, piano, reading, hiking, cycling, knitting, languages, working out

• books
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• working out
• reading
• knitting
• music
• piano
• cycling
• hiking
• teaching
• languages
• fiddle

Music, Movies, and Books

Old time (appalachian), folk, indie, rock, irish.

Books: My Antonia by Willa Cather, A primate's memoir by Robert Sapolsky, Science Fiction - The Mars Trilogy, Hunger Games, and a bunch of others - Alexander McCall Smith, John Steinbeck and I'm always up for recommendations.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Looked over the edge of Victoria Falls at Devil's pool.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Well I was a teacher so I could teach you linguistics. I play fiddle so I could teach you some music, or any other languages I've learned. Knitting

Share: languages, recipes - I'm not a great cook, but I'm learning (I like generally healthy food), music

Learn: Languages (Spanish, Norwegian, Turkish, South African Sign Language), music, cooking, machine learning, Perl/Python & Matlab programming

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Norway, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United States