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"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
~St. Augustine

After college I went to Brazil with my college tennis team to help a guy who helps glue-sniffing street kids. What a trip. Then I came back to Iowa for a month and then went to China for a year to teach English. What a trip! I came back to Iowa for a while but then I got bored and went to Mexico to help out another guy with his deaf school, and a little bit later went to the mountains of Kosovo with a group to play sports with mountain kids. Man, life's a trip!

And then I moved to New Jersey.

And then I moved to Michigan, where I currently reside.

In Michigan I play tennis and ping pong, read lots of books, write some fiction and some journals, and enjoy having good conversations with good people. Or even bad people once in a while.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Hoping to meet some great people. So far so good!

Interests

I've been journaling for 15 years. It's great cheap therapy. :) I've started writing fiction and man, that's hard. But if you're not doing hard things you're dying, right?

I played college tennis and still love to play.

I played (intramural) college ping pong and it's a love of mine.

Like Ferris Bueller says, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it."

• writing
• reading
• kayaking
• basketball
• tennis
• table tennis
• volunteering
• film
• nba

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Groundhog Day
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Good Will Hunting
Adaptation
Tree of Life

Books:
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck,
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Music:
Sigur Ros
Piano Music
String Music

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Great Wall in China blew me away.
Building an orphanage in Mexico for deaf kids was an experience.
Won a really big ping pong trophy.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach tennis and can do pretty good impressions (Gollum from Lord of the Rings, Goofy, Borat, Forrest Gump, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George W Bush, Barack Obama, ... )

What I Can Share with Hosts

Let's talk about books! I work in a library so I'm around books all day and love talking about your favorite books and what you're reading now.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Canada, China, Kosovo, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States