Interpreter.
Amateur French horn player.
Born and raised in the Golden State.

I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover, and I'm a sinner.

I sometimes sleep with my eyes half-open.

http://yearandahalf.blogspot.com/

PHILOSOPHY

To whom much is given, of him shall be much required

"L'essentiel et invisible pour les yeux."

Say what you mean, mean what you say.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

A little of this, a little of that.

兴趣

Language, people, French horn.

live music, etymology, travel (duh), good food, education (not necessarily academia), coffee, Russian literature, good bread, the Solar System, minimalism, most things foreign to me, dinosaurs, linguistics, electronica, maps...

• literature
• education
• dining
• coffee
• traveling
• billiards
• minimalism
• music
• live music
• bungee jumping
• cartography
• teaching
• etymology
• languages
• translation
• interpretation

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies:

L'Auberge espagnole, De battre mon coe€œur s'est arrete, The Professional, Amores perros, Donnie Darko, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain, The Edukators (Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei), The Fifth Element, Edward Scissorhands, Pan's Labyrinth, Clerks, Baraka, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Cashback, Drei, Run Lola Run, Je vais bien ne t'en fais pas, Y tu mamá también, (+ anything Almodovar, Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Wes Anderson, Tim Burton, Luc Besson)

Music:

http://www.lastfm.de/user/amerlok

Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky, Sigur Ros, Ratatat, Manu Chao, Radiohead, Daft Punk, Crystal Castles, Devendra Banhart, O€œlafur Arnalds, The National Ludovico Einaudi, Broken Social Scene, Chopin, Beirut, Tarkan, Buena Vista Social Club, Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Juanes, Bonobo, The Shins, Yann Tiersen, Explosions in the Sky

Books:

L'Etranger, Siddhartha, Ou es-tu ?, Les Aventures de Tintin, Candide, The Chronicles of Narnia, Notes from the Underground, 1984, L'immoraliste, Crime and Punishment, Dead Souls,

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

-Standing alone on Karl Marx Street (usually the busiest street) in Irkutsk at 5:00a.m. in -40 degree weather. I was sure I was in a snow-globe in another person's dream, as it was definitely too surreal to be real life.

-Exchange year in Clermont-Ferrand, France. One of the best years of my life.

-Semester in Irkutsk, "The Paris of Siberia" (according to people from Irkutsk).

-Every single one of my travels (international and domestic alike) has been amazing in its own way.

教，学，和分享

Always happy to exchange languages!

Teach me your ways!

我游览过的国家

Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Oman, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

我居住过的国家

France, Germany, Russian Federation, United States

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