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Palo Alto, California, United States
@CHRISLOWMAN
Member since 2009
CURRENT MISSION Go For it! ABOUT ME PhD student at UC Berkeley studying archaeology and museum anthropology. PHILOSOPHY Only connect. Go For It!
Interested in Fencing
Fluent in English
Learning German
Pioneer Badge
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I've couchsurfed while in England. I hosted people at Stanford University, although now I can only give tours depending on work. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I CouchSurfed in Cambridge, England, with Paulius Olševskas, and it was one of the best parts of my whole trip. I've hosted several CouchSurfers at Stanford and I enjoy giving tours to anyone.
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: Lawrence of Arabia, The X Files, A Room with a View, Finding Neverland, V for Vendetta. Music: Metric, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, Air, Gorillaz Books: Heart of Darkness, Dispatches, Gone with the Wind, Shogun
One Amazing Thing I've Done
--Climbed rooftops above Cambridge University with Paulius Olševskas. --Slept a night aboard a gangster's raft on a lake in southern Bulgaria. --Excavation and survey in the US, UK, England, and Turkey
Teach, Learn, Share
Bar Trick taught to me by a good friend: Materials: 4 straws, a lighter, and an audience. Set-Up: Take two straws and put them together in a V shape. Briefly light the connected ends so they melt together. Now, place them together like an upside-down V, and lean the tip of the V against a third straw. You should now have a kind of three-sided pyramid. Challenge: How do you lift up all three straws with the fourth straw. No twisting, sticking, or bending allowed. Good luck.
My Interests
Archaeology, writing, hiking, traveling, fencing
