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Overview
About Me
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.
Why I’m on 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.
Interests
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
Music, Movies, and Books
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
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
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.
Countries I’ve Visited
Belgium, France, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
Countries I’ve Lived In
Egypt, United Kingdom, United States