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Tales of a Wandering Nomad
All those who wander are not lost, all paths are good...
Created on 2002-09-11 22:12:50 (#702413), last updated 2010-03-05
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Basic Info| Name: | Matan Ar'ye Schwartz |
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| Birthdate: | 1984-09-02 |
| Location: | Kibbutz Zikim, Israel |
| Website: | NomadMatan.net |
Contact:
matan@nomadmatan.net Bio  |
I was born on Long Island, New York and grew up in a not-so-small town called Plainview with my incredibly forward thinking parents, my two loving brothers, our poodle and a cast of characters that continues to fund the higher education and globe trotting pursuits of my therapist's children (I kid...I kid...sort of...). After completing High School I went to the University at Buffalo where I studied, lived and worked for six years holding a variety of jobs: from construction worker and teaching assistant to sex educator and drag queen (among many others). I was also the regular, on call dancing monkey for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gryvon and research assistant/lackey for covarla. After finishing in Buffalo I made aliyah to Israel where I spent six months at Ma'agan Michael learning Hebrew and working in their refet. I'm proud to say that I've had the distinct personal pleasure of milking three-hundred and fifty of the most beautiful bovines in existence on a daily basis - life doesn't get much better than that. After our program finished I went back to the United States for a month long vacation, returning to Israel and enlisting in the Israel Defense Forces on August 20, 2008. After completing basic training at Michve Alon I was assigned to the IDF Ground Forces Command where I serve as a linguist in the Foreign Relations Branch. Currently I live one kilometer from the Gaza Strip on Kibbutz Zikim in Southern Israel. After I complete my service in the IDF on June 19, 2011 I look forward to living and working on Kibbutz Zikim for a few years while I save money for graduate school. It's my hope that while I'm living and working on the kibbutz that I'll be able to grow my business so I can do what I love, to be able to afford the luxury of studying what I love, in the hopes of eventually turning what I love studying into a living. I'm an avid hiker and mountaineer, a wannabe kayaker (soon...I'll own a kayak soon!), a camper and an all around dirty hippy/outdoor enthusiast/tree hugger. I firmly believe in the Leave No Trace Movement. I'm also an avid seamster and I really, really, really love cows. Other stuff (and probably not surprising) is that I enjoy writing, reading and drinking copious amounts of coffee. My musical tastes are honestly eclectic and classical (Haydn, Bach, Bethoven, Mozart) can be found sitting alongside Eminem, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga and Christina Aguilera on my ipod. I'm always up to making new friends and you can feel free just to add me. For more about my academic pursuits, and other boring adult stuff you can look at my CV. |
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42, afro-asiatic languages, anti-drama, anti-prescriptivism, applied linguistics, arabic, archie goodwin, athletes, balanced living, being jewish, black coffee, bovines, buffalo, cabaret, camping, clothes, compasses, condoms, cowboy bebop, cows, criticism, dancing, defenestration, descriptivism, dogs, education, eeyore, fashion, fitness, footloose, forensic phonetics, forests, frat boys, galileo galilei, goats, guys, guys in underwear, guys with abs, hebrew, hiking, homosexual, hoodies, hot guys, hot jocks, humor, idf, independent thinking, index cards, international phonetic alphabet, international phonetic association, international travel, ipa, ipod, ipods, israel, israeli, israelis, jazz, jocks, judaism, languages, laughing, leaves, lecturing, leonardo da vinci, levenger, lifting weights, linguistics, living healthy, logic, long island, long islanders, mac, massage, meditation, men with brains, messenger bags, middle east, middle eastern, minimalism, minimalists, mirrors, museums, mystery novels, mythology, nanowrimo, nero wolfe, new york, new york city, new yorkers, night life, nin, nirvana, nomadic lifestyle, nomads, npr, nutrition, nutritional healing, olim, pens, phonetic spectrographs, phonetics, photography, poetry, public relations, radio free mars, rain, reading, reference books, research, rex stout, rocky horror picture show, running, savage garden, seatbelts, smart men, smiling, sociolinguistics, spike spiegel, standard poodles, star trek, storms, studying, sushi, sustainable tourism, tall guys, tel aviv, the illiad, the odyssey, thinking, thought, transcription, translating, translation, travel, typewriters, ub, underwear, university at buffalo, vampires, wbfo, working out, writing, writing in ink, yaoi, yoga, yoko kanno, עברית, عربي, ♂♂
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Schools:
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Hogsmeade, Scotland - Highland, United KingdomIrving L. Weiner Religious School - Jericho, NY
Starfleet Academy - San Francisco, CA
Sunnydale High School - Sunnydale, CA
Parkway Elementary School - Plainview, NY (1989 - 1992)
Jamaica Avenue School - Plainview, NY (1992 - 1993)
Stratford Road Elementary School - Plainview, NY (1993 - 1994)
Plainview Old Bethpage Middle School - Plainview, NY (1994 - 1995)
Eastern Suffolk B.O.C.E.S. Captree Learning Center - West Islip, NY (1995 - 1996)
Eastern Suffolk B.O.C.E.S. Masera Learning Center - West Islip, NY (1996 - 1998)
Eastern Suffolk B.O.C.E.S. Nesaquake Learning Center - Smithtown, NY (1998 - 1999)
Plainview Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School - Plainview, NY (1999 - 2002)
State University of New York - University at Buffalo - Buffalo, NY (2002 - 2008)
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