CURRENT MISSION

find the best plov in the land.

ABOUT ME

Recent graduate, working as an English teacher and researcher in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. I've been off CS for a long time, but now that I'm living abroad I'm definitely willing to host and planning to travel myself some!

Interests

• traveling
• teaching
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: Baraka, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Lives of Others, Snatch, Hot Fuzz, Muppet Christmas Carol, The Twilight Samurai, Gandhi, Munich, Russian Ark, Spirited Away, Yi Yi: A One and a Two, The Up Series, Ken Burns' the Civil War, The Song of Sparrows, Nostalghia, Waltz with Bashir

music: anything, but right now Tinariwen, L’Ham de Foc, Marvin Gaye, Bacilos, Ludovico Einaudi, Julie Fowlis, Ranarim, Rajaton

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Last summer I hiked one of the highest mountains in the Urals - the people, scenery, everything about it will remain with me for a long time.

Countries I’ve Visited

Estonia, Israel, Palestine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, United States