CURRENT MISSION

To extend the hospitality shown to me.

ABOUT ME

Max: I am a student of Middle Eastern history in Chicago. I am a coffee-hound and am suffering under the barrage of Nescafe in my current country.

Amy: I'm a recovering English major gearing up for my first real winter ever.

PHILOSOPHY

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We've surfed in the US and in Israel. We've also hosted a number of times in Chicago.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Was shown Tel-Aviv and Beirut thanks to some Couchsurfers. Have had some interesting experiences hosting here in Chicago, which you can hear all about if you share our home with us.

兴趣

Indian/Pakistani food, votive candles, soccer, knitting (Amy, not Max), FIFA (Max, not Amy), tea in front of the fire place on cold winter evenings, tattoos, people watching, inappropriate or ironic exclamations points, good beer, traveling, and failed communist revolutions.

• tattoos
• dining
• beer
• coffee
• drinking
• traveling
• knitting
• soccer
• world cup
• history

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies: The Band's Visit, 8 1/2, The Lawrence of Arabia, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Persona (Amy, not Max). I could go on forever.

Books: Lolita, 100 Years of Solitude, Pale Fire, Invisible Cities, Les Miserables, the Oxford English Dictionary

Poets: John Berryman, Phillip Larkin, Elizabeth Bishop, B. H. Fairchild, Billy Collins

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Max: Drinking Mango juice across from the 6th station of the cross ranks up there.

Amy: Being beaten with Birch branches in an insanely hot Banya in Russia was both terrifying and unbelievably relaxing.

我游览过的国家

Belgium, France, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

Egypt, United Kingdom, United States