To learn more about the world through meeting people of any backgrounds. Staying with a local really changes your experience of a place and hosting really refreshes or changes the way you perceive the place that you call home.

goodreads.com - anthropology, history, nutrition, biology, ecology Music right now: pantha du prince, gold panda, odesza, chris thile, film scores, tame impala, joe hisaishi "After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love and so on- have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear- what remains? nature remains." - Walt Whitman "We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered." - MLK Jr. "There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something." - J.R.R. Tolkien "“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are over consuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster." -Aldous Huxley, Island