CURRENT MISSION

Travel and meet new people in my free time

ABOUT ME

I love learning new languages and I read all the time. (Mostly non-fiction.) I take a lot of pictures, even in my home town when I'm not traveling because I use the pictures to document my life instead of a journal.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe we should all follow the Golden Rule, but I also mourn the fact that following the Golden Rule yourself does not guarantee that others will follow it as well.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven't yet surfed on anyone's couch through this website but I have traveled a fair amount. (See profile photos.)

Interessen

Taking pictures, hiking, socializing, exploring, conversing for hours, eating, drinking, swimming, sitting, sleeping

• traveling
• socializing
• hiking
• swimming
• languages

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Movies:
-Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
-City of God (Cidade de Deus)
-Amores Perros
-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
-Network
-Goodfellas
-There Will Be Blood
-Inception
-Requiem for a Dream
etc, etc.

Music:
-Madlib
-Nas
-Abdelhaleem Hafez
-MF Doom
-Arcade Fire
-Pixies
-La Rue Ketanou
-Grizzly Bear
-The Decemberists
-Fairouz
etc, etc.

Books:
-Lawrence in Arabia
-No Good Men Among the Living (Anand Gopal)
-The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
-The Sirens of Baghdad (Yasmina Khadra)
There are many many more but I don't feel like writing anymore

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Canada, Egypt, France, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, United Arab Emirates

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United States