CURRENT MISSION

A Place to Be

ABOUT ME

Right now, I'm attempting to get back to South Korea. In order to accomplish this goal, I have decided that I need to walk in to the Office of the Secretary of State of the United States and ask her to Apostille a document for me--rather than waiting the four to eight weeks it might otherwise take.

PHILOSOPHY

Go. Do. Be.
It means what it will in the future.
I'm a perpetual finder.
Seeking is a decent pastime,
but finding is much more fulfilling.

Love loves to love love.

Work hard and do the best you can.

Welcome to the Monkey House =)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Get me to Korea, and there will ALWAYS be a wide open couch. Right now, I'm kind of between homes and without a couch to call my own ㅠㅠ

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I once lived on couches. Being essentially homeless makes one appreciate what a couch can mean. As a matter of fact, even though I am currently paying rent to live in a house, I still sleep on the couch in the basement--and not because I want to watch TV. It's just a more comfortable experience for me... i've been sleeping on couches for a very, VERY long time. Also, my best friend and I went on a road trip and stayed entirely within the couchsurfing domain, and it was always an incredible experience. If you're down with couchsurfing (and by that I mean the whole experience of meeting people, being respectful of the gift they're giving you, and caring), you're probably pretty cool.

Interests

guitar
music
literature
education
philosophy
trees
green
oh, almost anything can peak my interest if it's presented appropriately.

• literature
• beauty
• education
• cooking
• tv
• traveling
• socializing
• painting
• music
• guitar
• opera
• rock climbing
• teaching
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Older movies (Godard, antonioni, classics of hollywood)
I've read a crap load of books and like most of them--the experience of reading them at any rate.
I'm currently in a rock band; however,
I like opera, classical, jazz, dixie, bluegrass, rock, and anything that feels.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

climbing up mountains is probably one of my favorite pastimes. I started doing it when I was in New Zealand. I've looked out over expanses that quite literally take your breath away. It's like the sense of the sublime mentioned above: terrifying beauty.
You're so small.
It's so huge.
It's terrifying.
It's amazing.
It's beautiful.
It puts you in your place.
I have been on mountaintopss in four countries, and those experiences (usually by myself I might add) eclipse things like the Sydney Opera House, Time's Square (which you learn to hate being a New Yorker), and all the man-made wonders I've seen. Climbing is hard, but more than worth it.

Teach, Learn, Share

As a man who has done a lot of traveling, I have basically been forced to learn a number of skills. I can cook, bake, build, trim, cut, paint, and think deeply about matters of linguistic and logical relevance.
But all's vanity.
The experience of being alive is predicated on diversity. When we reach out and attempt to see other people and cultures and even things as they really are, what we are actually doing is developing the universe. In Plato's Republic, the bulk of the people are trapped in a cave and staring at the images of things instead of the things themselves. For example, I was having a mango the other day, and my best friend said he didn't like mangoes but he liked mango-flavored things. In other words, he was more enamored with the shadow than the thing-in-itself. That's what I'm battling against every day of my life: for me and for my loved to see things as they really are, call things by their right names, and attempt to make the universe better by being a decent human being.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bulgaria, Fiji, France, Italy, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand, South Korea, United States

• 

•