ABOUT ME

I am easy going individual that finds enjoyment in meeting new people and sharing new experiences. When not traveling abroad, very passionate about traveling through and exploring different spaces/communities via bike. Traveling, especially abroad, has not only a grea way to meet new people, but to find different ways to communicate and share commonalities and interest across spaces. Grateful to this app and the folks that make it what it is.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Using Couchsurfing as a great way to meet new people while traveling. Through Couchsurfing i can connect with people in different regions of the world while traveling or through various networks within the site.

Interests

• books
• music festivals
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• live music
• jazz
• cycling
• basketball
• eating

Music, Movies, and Books

I love all music but some of my favorites are soul, hip-hop, jazz, salsa, champeta, orchestral, afrobeats

Books: Between the World and Me, The Stranger, East of Eden, Malcolm X autobiography, The Catcher in the Rye, Short Walks from Bogota, Dreams of My Father, The New Jim Crow, 100 years of Solitude, No One Belongs Here More Than You, I Get On The Bus, A Mercy, Song of Solomon....give me suggestions!

Movies: I dont even know where to begin with this, too many to consider. A few movies I have enjoyed recently include: Love & Lies & Bleeding, Lola,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Had a chance to live in the coffee región of Colombia for a month and live with coffee farmers. I was able to help cultivate the coffee and learn the traditons and importance within the región.

Roadtriping with friends along the US East Coast visiting a new cities

Renting a car and driving through the mountains/hills of Costa Rica

Working as an English teacher for a group of brillant students in an underdevloped part of Barranquilla, Colombian

Colombia Carnaval!!

Teach, Learn, Share

I recently began traveling outside of my country and aquired a true desire to immerse and know other cultures. My goal is to learn from others experiences through traveling and living ,while sharing pieces of my own. My goal is to find, speak, and share with those like minded, different and indifferent.

What I Can Share with Hosts

The understanding that we must live as we please to fullest and to simply not fetishsize over the irrelevant, unimportant, and minuscule

A laugh, music, beer, possibly a room for a night, insight, an ear, broken spanish, food, etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guinea-Bissau, India, Kenya, Panama, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Tanzania

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Senegal, United States