CURRENT MISSION

survival and thrival

ABOUT ME

I was born in Milwaukee, lived in New York City for 5 and a half years, Buenos Aires a year, and Quito a year. I´m going to be living in Mexico until next July or August. Then I go back to New York.

I've been an English as a Second Language teacher for 5 years and I love all the different people I meet in my job.

I like to play pool and the harmonica and chess.

I like to wander around cities for hours.

I like to cook. I'm vegetarian.

Me gusta hablar en espanol.

I like to write short stories and poems.

I like immigrants in my country. I want to be an immigration lawyer and help them.

I like to meet new people.

I like the way the sky looks in the Andes before sunset.

I like stories. I like stories people tell me. I like stories in books and movies and songs.

I like nature but I like cities more. I think people are interesting and I like to be around a lot of them.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

right now i´m trying to meet people for coffee or a drink. when i move back to new york city, i´ll play tour guide there.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i´m a newby.

Interests

playing pool, reading, writing, watching movies, listening to music, walking around, speaking spanish

• writing
• books
• poetry
• cooking
• coffee
• vegetarian
• walking
• drinking
• movies
• chess
• reading
• billiards
• socializing
• survival
• music
• teaching
• law
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Royal Tenenbaums, 28 Days Later, High Fidelity, Apocalypse Now, I Heart Huckabee's, Wet Hot American Summer, Dr. Strangelove, Eternal Sunshine, Science of Sleep, Kairo, Suicide Club, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Bus 174

Bob Dylan, Modest Mouse, Iron and Wine, The White Stripes, Neutral Milk Hotel, Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, The Deadly Snakes, Tom Waits, Kings of Leon

Salinger, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, Catch-22, 1984, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Cronica de una muerte anunciada, or anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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