CURRENT MISSION

I'm in medical school

ABOUT ME

I'm 27. Born and raised in the US. Partied a lot in college and now I'm living in a 3rd world village studying to be a doctor in one of the top 500 universities in the world. Isn't life funny?

PHILOSOPHY

Here is the quote by Bruce Lee that sums up my philosophy:

“Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile.

So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.” I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a helluva lot older than you are, and I can’t do five.” He said, “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it.” I said “Okay, hell, I’ll go for it.” So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I’m okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out.

I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce if I run any more,” –and we’re still running-”if I run any more I’m liable to have a heart attack and die.” He said, “Then die.”

It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, “Why did you say that?” He said, “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Participate in what?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None. My friend told me he's had a lot of great experiences using it... I figured why not give it a try.

Mi casa es tu casa

Interests

I watch lots of movies, Ive been doing Muay Thai for 3 years, I jog, I read a lot , I love trying different foods, Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson

• cooking
• running
• movies
• jiu jitsu
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Frank sinatra, Michael Jackson , DMX, whatever catches my ear... I don't discriminate

As far as movies go... Ill watch pretty much anything

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Petra

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm a self taught Mycologist.
I'm awesome at call of duty
I like playing Texas Holdem
I did Brazilian Jiu jitsu and Muay Thai for 3 years (I'm a lot better in Muay Thai )
I can cook