I grew up near Los Angeles and went to school in the woods of the Northwest to study Chinese history, opera, and postmodernism, so I could make sure I'd be completely unemployable. It worked like a charm. I lived on different farms in the south of Germany before I found my way to Leipzig, which I love, and where I work as an english teacher.

"The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter." -Roberto Bolaño

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I first used this to see the south & southwest US for seven months in 2009. Now I host when I can. My door is open, when I have one.

Interests

Reading, collecting typers, inspecting bookshelves, ukelele, coffee, flânerie.

• dining
• coffee
• partying
• drinking
• reading
• opera
• teaching
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS : Roberto Bolaño, Thomas Pynchon, Marguerite Duras, Don DeLillo, Michel Houellebecq, Fyodor Dostoevski, Julio Cortázar, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, John Kennedy O'Toole, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion, William Faulkner, László Krasznahorkai, Cormac McCarthy, Hergé, Can Xue

MOVIES : Michelangelo Antonioni, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-Wai, François Truffaut, John Huston, Pedro Costa, Kelly Reichardt, Lars von Trier, Wes & PT Anderson

MUSIC : Leonard Cohen, Sibelius, The Microphones, The Cure, The Magnetic Fields, Everly Brothers, the "Last Life in the Universe" soundtrack, ABBA.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A philosophy major defending the souls of a bunch of unhappy trippers from a satanist with a fake english accent at an s&m housewarming party in albuquerque.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can tell you some good stories! I want to hear some, too.

What I Can Share with Hosts

What else? Company, food, and drink.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

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