Welcome to this wondrous profile; my name is Austin! I'm a chap who likes to relax during the weekends with friends or indulging in some of my hobbies. Now I love hanging out with my bros, and broing out to the broiest extreme. On the other hand, I also enjoy chilling by myself and taking care of some reading legit novels (fiction/non-fiction) and comics, playing some video games, or taking care of gym time.

I am a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. I recently returned from living in South Africa for the last couple years. I taught youth and adults about how to wrap their buggers up before having sex. And I also focused on HIV prevention, gender-based violence, and treatment adherence. I work in the public sector because I'm essentially a pedantic bureaucrat in my heart.

PHILOSOPHY

Trust people until they betray you. Being concern that others may hurt you, before you even get to know them, is not a healthy way to live!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm partly on this site looking to meet new people, but for the immediate future, I am looking to possibly stay at someone's place as I settle into Fort Collins.

Interests

Traveling, music, video games, literature, eating food, and drinking tea.

• books
• literature
• dining
• cooking
• drinking
• politics
• comics
• video games
• reading
• traveling
• music
• political science
• public policy
• public health
• excercise
• international politics
• hiv

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Nausicaa, Watchmen, Haruki Murakami, The Big Short, Batman, The Song of Ice and Fire, J.R.R Tolkien, The Walking Dead, Rubicon, The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, Christopher Hitchens, Preacher, Fables, Brandon Sanderson, Kurt Vonnegut, and Oyasumi PunPun.

Movies: Wes Anderson, Her, Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, David Fincher, Les Miserables, Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Akira, Lord of the Rings, How to Train Your Dragons, the Lego Movie, and Marvel films.

TV: Joss Whedon, The Shield, Game of Thrones, Fate/Zero, Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood), Arrested Development, Prison is the New Black, Breaking Bad, South Park, and Archer.

Music: Soundgarden, Death Grips, Die Antwoord, TV on the Radio, Flaming Lips, Weezer, Within Temptations, Poets of the Fall, Bat for Lashes, Chvrches, The Cure, Foo Fighters, Goldfish, The Hold Steady, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, My Chemical Romance, Queens of the Stone Age, and Paramore.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a provincial South Africa for two years, and I did not die in the process!

Teach, Learn, Share

Let me teach you about the myriad of ways of contracting HIV.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm a wealth of information for anyone who has even been interested in doing or knowing more about the Peace Corps.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Africa