CURRENT MISSION

Become a renowned chef, editor-in-chief of the NY Times, the guy from "Thank You For Smoking", and a world champion handball player

ABOUT ME

trying to live life while getting in as much cooking, reading, writing, hiking, tennising, and good times as possible. meh... quite happy to be joining a network as beautiful as this and I cannot wait to start couch surfin'

PHILOSOPHY

Trying to create some sparks in the world...hopefully good for people, but always exciting.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have attended CSer parties, and have surfed in the US, India, and elsewhere.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had an incredible experience couchsurfing at a Sikh ranch with it's own upscale restaurant outside of Armitsar, India (the city of the gorgeous Golden Temple of Sikhism).

Interests

Writing (that's journalism, poetry, short stories, and the works...), reading, cooking, baking, handball, tennis, hiking, swimming, filming, photography, music, concerts, bowling, backyard football, searching for lint in me belly button,garage saleing, falling numbers,scratching my tummy, this, that, and the other.

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• photography
• concerts
• cooking
• baking
• partying
• reading
• music
• hiking
• sikhism
• soccer
• tennis
• handball
• swimming
• bowling
• art history
• history
• journalism
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

shawshank redemption, garden state, forrest gump, run lola run, the usual suspects, american beauty, lion king, princess bride, and good will hunting...to name just a few...empire records, big lebowski

whoah...jack johnson, Sister Hazel, Counting Crows, Garden State Soundtrack, Ben Folds, Ben Harper, THe BEatles, THe Rolling Stones, THe Barenaked Ladies, Guster, Matisyahu, Dispatch, Braddigan, State Radio, Pete Francis, Moshav, Beit Habubot, THe Big Blue Accident, You Army, Hadag Nachash, Geva Alon, David Broza, 1:1, Train, Death Cab For Cutie, Sublime, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Andrew Bird, Adam Ezra, Sufijan Stevens, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bryan Adams, Majudah, Shlomo Abrahmson, Chaim Dovid, The Fray, Good Acapella stuff, Eidan Rachel, ben kweller...spoon, sparklehorse, anthony da costa, yeah yeah yeahs, tv on the radio, of montreal, the deccemberists, bon iver, portugal.theman, chairlift, elvis perkins in dearland, beastie boys, phish, dave matthews band, bruce springsteen, pearl jam, eddie vedder, wilco, and so on and argenshlagen...

THe Pacific and other stories by Marc Helprin!, Harry Potter SEries, Eragon, THe Catcher in the Rye, Good short stories, The BEst American non-required reading, The Far Side anthologies, Simpsons Comics, couplehood, the cube, babyhood, kokology, the 64$ tomato... and sorry but im relaly bad with book names so ill try to remeber the immense amount of them i have read at another point in time...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

saw elephants converge on where i had just been to stomp in anger and exert their presence to lions who were eating a buffalo carcass and thinking they were invincible...

Teach, Learn, Share

I am always up for learning about people, cultures, and the world.  Teaching wise I know 2 and a half languages (english, hebrew, and a smidgen of spanish), and know quite a bit bout journalism, art history, glass slumping, and some other shtuff.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belize, Botswana, Canada, Czech Republic, Guatemala, India, Ireland, Italy, Namibia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Honduras, Israel, United States