CURRENT MISSION

studying international law and human rights in brooklyn, new york

ABOUT ME

lived till i was 14 in Staten Island NY, moved to Chicago, went to college in Connecticut and studied abroad in Santiago, Chile, lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn for 2.5 years, quit my job, traveled and lived out of a car in New Zealand for 4 months (visited Australia and Fiji too!) before starting law school in September 2009, and now live and study in Brooklyn, NY :)

PHILOSOPHY

some men see things as they are and ask why? some imagine things that never were and ask why not? - george bernard shaw

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

tried out couchsurfing in NZ and Australia and loved it.

Interests

traveling, sailing, surfing, reading, photography, new alternative bands/music, soccer, cricket, american football, the yankees and trinity college

• photography
• human rights
• reading
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• sailing
• cricket
• american football
• soccer
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

movies...patriot games, seven, batman begins, casino royale, no country for old men, mallrats, being john malkovich, mean girls, ferris buhler's day off

music...flaming lips, ratatat, mgmt, white lies, tv on the radio, amazing baby, fleetfoxes, girl talk, empire of the sun, cut copy, creedance clearwater revival, lynyrd skynrd, led zeppelin, fleetwood mac

books...the fountainhead, east of eden, the things they carried, tess of the d'ubervilles, a tale of two cities, white teeth, one flew over the cuckoo's nest

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

climbed to the three towers in torres del paine national park in chilean patagonia; white water rafted in uganda

Teach, Learn, Share

i know chilean and kiwi slang, can teach sailing and spanish, and know how to turn any life experiences into a mean c.v.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Fiji, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Peru, Rwanda, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, New Zealand, Tanzania, United States