Andrew Introduction
Hi, everyone! My name is Andrew. I live in Chagrin Falls, Ohio and, until three months ago, attended Chagrin Falls HS. I graduated in June, and I’ll be attending Middlebury College as a “Feb” starting in February 2010. I love to read, write, and think, and I plan to study English and Philosophy at Midd. I am a very outdoorsy type of person (not to mention a member of a very outdoorsy type of family), and I basically live to camp, backpack, rock climb, etc. I play the drums, snowboard a ton in the winter (I really want to learn how to ski, too), and have a rather obsessive passion for long-distance running. I have a black belt in a South Korean martial art called Kuk Sul Do, and finished up twelve-years of Boy Scouting by earning my Eagle Scout award last fall along with a few of my friends. I am very creative and spent the majority of my younger childhood drawing, painting, writing and building things (LEGOs essentially defined my existence). I am interested in filmmaking and virtually every type of art.
I am really excited by the opportunity we’ll have to study Buddhism and Buddhist meditation on out trip to India. These subjects have long fascinated me, and I am very eager to learn about and experience them in the region of the world where they are most culturally influential.