CURRENT MISSION

To travel and see more of my home country

ABOUT ME

I am a 29 year old who has been spending the last few years working towards entry into a Physicians Assistant program. This has meant working Friday-Sunday nights and school Monday-Thursday. But the end draws near! This fall is interview season and I hope to use Couchsurfing to get a better idea of the communities in which these universities reside. I have spent nearly all my life on the west and five of the seven schools I am applying to are on the east so I look forward to the introduction to American life near to, or on the other side of, the Mississippi.

PHILOSOPHY

To root yourself down with a philosophy is to beg for exposed contradictions. However, the classic "do unto others.." should be the mantra recited at the beginning of every elementary school class.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm a newbie I'm afraid.

Interests

Basketball, Baseball, Current events, NY Times, NPR, fiction, running (training for the PDX marathon in Oct.), my dear sweet puppy (photos available upon request :), a lot of my life is in biology textbooks as of late..

• marathon
• running
• traveling
• baseball
• basketball
• biology

Music, Movies, and Books

Recent books: The Book Thief, Supercapitalism, Out Stealing Horses, The Janissary Tree, Shadow Country, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World, The Shock Doctrine, Atonement, The Brothers K.
Recent Movies: ...umm.. The Hangover...not a lot in the theater. I have a Netflix account.
Music: Sunset Rubdown, Okkervil River, Animal Collective, M. Ward, Blue Scholars, K'naan, Apostle of Hustle, Ted Leo, Bon Iver, the Dodos, Spoon, and many, many more..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Camino de Santiago. A 500 mile pilgrimage across northern Spain from the Pyrennes to Santiago de Compostela in the NW. It was the most mentally and physically arduous task I have ever attempted.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Italy, Mexico, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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