CURRENT MISSION

to teach and be taught.

ABOUT ME

Teaching through the Teach For America program in Newark, NJ as a middle school math teacher. Both love and hate my job, but its the most challenging thing I have done in my life.

PHILOSOPHY

I seek to live my life seeking happiness for myself and others around me. I believe in living life as justly as possible because when I don't, someone else suffers. I like to consider myself a spiritual person, but that spirituality is always under constant change and rethinking.

I also enjoy this quote:

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer or deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and sends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumps of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither defeat nor victory."

--Theodore Roosevelt

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've definitely used this site to find hosts and to host myself.

Interests

Travel, community service, foreign lanugage, debate, politics, the outdoors, etc.

• politics
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• teaching
• mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

GreenDay, Dave Mathews Band, Weezer, Dispatch, The Mountain Goats, The Eagles, Fountains of Wayne, Iron and Wine, The Postal Service, Queens of the Stone Age, Smash Mouth, The Offspring, The WHO, The White Stripes, Slaughterhouse-5, War and Peace, Guns Germs and Steel, God's Politics, Barefoot Heart, Bless Me Ultima, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite, Austin Powers, Kill Bill, Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, A Beautfiul Mind, Anchorman, Family Guy, The West Wing, Sorority Boys

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived and traveled in Europe for about 5 months. Teach math in the inner-city.

Countries I’ve Visited

Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States

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