Please note: I just discovered this site very recently, which is why I do not have many references yet. This summer, I have arranged for a spontaneous and open-ended 3-month trip through Europe in order to get out of my comfort-zone, meet new people, and expand my first-hand knowledge of Western art and culture. I am a high school Art Teacher and artist in Philadelphia, United States. I love art, animals, nature, conversation, and philosophy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meet new people and make friends across the globe

Interests

• animals
• arts
• literature
• exercise
• meditation
• chess
• painting
• classical music
• jazz
• hiking
• tennis
• art history
• history
• philosophy
• psychology
• films
• food
• nature
• deep conversations
• meeting new people
• sculpture
• surrealism
• theology
• positive psychology
• higher education
• aesthetics

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - Liszt, Chopin, Debussy, Satie, Beethoven, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Theloneous Monk, Charles Mingus, Bob Dylan

Movies - The Shawshank Redemption, The Big Lebowski, The Fisher King, Grand Budapest Hotel, Nebraska, The Master, Synecdoche NY, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Punch Drunk Love, What About Bob, Rushmore, The Royal Tannebaums

Books - The Brothers Karamazov, Night, Slaughterhouse Five, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Stranger

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Solo Biking trip throughout New England

Teach, Learn, Share

Art, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Literature

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am clean, polite, responsible, well-educated, and very respectful

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States