CURRENT MISSION

be present

ABOUT ME

see my facebook profile!

PHILOSOPHY

be the change you want to see. don't believe everything you think. be present. don't sweat the small stuff, and it's all small stuff. just do it.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

signed up because Ian needed me to, so his profile didn't look all janky & dodgy b/c he only has female connections. nevermind the fact that he is janky and dodgy

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

umm, besides being more or less homeless from June 08 to Feb 09 (thanks Matt & Nik, Mom, and Dad!), and then all the times I crashed at Al & Kelly's place, Seth's place, Austin & Ty's place --- all of which were outside the CS network, btw --- i have no professional CS experience.

Interessen

travelling, exploring, mountaineering, trekking, scuba-diving, yoga, reading, running, cooking, eating, movies, sleeping. and then there's what i call "the things i love, in no particular order": sunrise, honesty, cereal at any time of the day or night, making people laugh, sunset, long deep kisses, beaches with lots of tall skinny palmtrees (black sand beaches!), alpenglow, the view from the top of a mountain, DQ blizzards (heath and M&M please), making love, naps, travellling, cooking, thinking outside the box, breakfast, meeting new friends, nature programs, cold beer (but not anything in a can!), maker's mark, jack daniels, ), fruit smoothies, foreign places, sushi, college football (UGA, FSU, Michigan), UNC hoops, environmental conservation, thai & indian food, trail-runs, inversions & arm balances, fresh veggies, seafood, clean clothes, long hot showers (lather, rinse, repeat)

• books
• dining
• seafood
• cooking
• breakfast
• indian food
• beer
• yoga
• running
• clothing
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• mountaineering
• scuba diving
• boxing
• soccer
• beaches

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Favorite Music:
anything but techno, country, and hip-hop. i grew up on southern rock and the jam bands (mainly Grateful Dead and Widespread Panic)

Favorite TV Shows:
just about any show on Discovery, Animal Planet, Travel&Living, Food Network, Nat'l Geographic, etc. plus The Sopranos, Simpsons, Seinfeld, Law&Order, Blue Planet, Planet Earth...FOX NEWS SUCKS ASS!

Favorite Movies:
Princess Bride, Star Wars (the original 3, not the crappy new ones), Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, It's A Wonderful Life, The Shrek movies, Shawn Of The Dead, Saving Private Ryan, Breakfast Club, Forrest Gump, When Harry Met Sally, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Lord Of The Rings trilogy, What The Bleep Do We Know, Crash, Citizen Kane, AnchorMan, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, anything by Pixar... i could go on and on...

Favorite Books:
anything by Salman Rushdie or Kurt Vonnegut; The Time Traveller's Wife, Lord Of The Rings (and the Hobbit), 7 Years In Tibet, Siddhartha, Papillion, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Of Mice & Men, Wuthering Heights, Return of the Native, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, A Fine Balance, The Kite Runner. Also i'm a sucker for the Booker Prize winners & nominees (The Bone People, Life of Pai, etc..). Oh, and the Harry Potter series. I used to have this great list of favorite books, but I lost it when my Palm Pilot died...

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

too many to count. seriously, CS asks this question?

Lehren, lernen, teilen

i'll share any experience i've ever had, any lesson i've ever learned. i'm an open book.

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Cambodia, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Viet Nam

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

United States