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Travel

First overseas experience: A month living in Israel in 1998.  This was supposed to be a year of high school, but circumstances abroad and at home made returning home the better option.

Caribbean cruises: From 2002-2004, I went on 3 Caribbean cruises with my family. Royal Caribbean twice, Carnival once.

Hosteling: My first experience backpacking/hosteling was two months in Europe in 2004, covering Western Europe, including the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and the Netherlands.

In 2006, I spent a month in Southeast Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and The Philippines.

TEFL: Summer 2007 was my first time teaching English abroad, in Italy.  After my teaching position, I traveled in Europe again, mostly in Eastern Europe.

Further travels and TEFL: I traveled to Hawaii, Australia and more of Asia during late 2007 and early 2008.  This trip included teaching English at immersion camps in Taiwan.

From December 2007-September 2008, I was in every continents except Antarctica.

In Summer 2008, I returned to Europe, teaching English in France, then traveling in Northwest Europe.  After this trip, I began teaching business English in Santiago, Chile from September 2008-February 2009.

I returned to teach English in France in 2009 and 2010, both in English immersion camps and as an English language assistant in the French public schools.

Before, during and after, I traveled throughout Europe and into the Middle East.

Currently, I have been to over 70 countries at a total of over a third of the countries in the world, including every country in Europe.

College and University

At Edmonds Community College, I was highly active in the Digital Music department.  I received my Associate’s of Arts & Science at age 12, with Honors.

At the University of Washington, I was the Lead Undergraduate Representative for School of Drama, the Membership Director for the Undergraduate Theater Society and the producer of multiple theater festivals.

I graduated with double degrees (Bachelor in Arts, English with a Literature Emphasis and Bachelor in Arts, Drama) at age 18.

Career

I’ve had a variety of jobs through my life. A lot of my jobs have involved working with kids, including clowning and summer camps, both in the United States and English immersion camps abroad.

I’ve also:

• delivered pizza for Domino’s
• supervised all-night high school graduation parties
• bounced at clubs
• served as security at a domain name conference in Bellevue, WA
• been a laborer
• worked as a hotel front desk clerk
• refereed ice hockey
• served for catering companies
• read scripts on the FOX lot
• been an extra

The Arts

Music

• Throughout childhood, I was involved in school bands and the Cascade Youth Symphony, playing trumpet.
• During community college, I studied Digital Music and Scoring.

Theater

During and outside of UW, I wrote, acted, directed, produced and was in the improvisation group “The Collective”

Film

• I’ve produced two short films, Shatter and The Dock (2009), along with a 49-second French parody of The Dock.  I’ve also been in other shorts.
• At English immersion camp, I avidly captured footage, with the best example being the reality TV-style Macon Retrospective.