Erica Gutierrez

St Christopher Elementary Scho, Attended 1983 - 1992, Class of 1992

St. Chris, St. Lucy's, UCLA UCLA Bruin forever!, La Complutense, Madrid, Spain, Albert-Luedwigs, U of Freiburg, Germany, UKN, Durban, South Africa, JNU, New Delhi, India

University of California - Los Angeles, Attended 1996 - 2000, Class of 2000, Master's Degree, Political Science

teaching english..web fiddling..

I'm on Myspace & Hi5, too. "Global Studies Programme", UCLA Bruin forever!

Swimming, hiking, bicycling, tennis, traveling, film, business, public policy, photography, musica, languages, some yoga, clubbing, dancing, moshing, some fashion and art, music, international relations, plays, concerts, website design....

I'll take you there, Joyce Carol Oates; Vertigo, Paul Auster;The Giving Tree, Cien anos de Soledad, La Casa de los Espiritus, White Noise; Other read authors include: The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion; Zoe Valdez, Simone Beavoir & Mlian Kundera

The Barbarian Invasions, Adaptation, The Garden State, Sin City, Closer, Kezo, City of God, Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, Being John Malkovich, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Boogie Nights, Frida, Finding Nemo, Animatrix...Intimacy, Hellboy, The Girl with the Pearl Earrings, Lost in Translation & Passion, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Rat Race, Wedding Crashers, In her Shoes, The Upside of Anger

I really need to update this! Tiesto, Buddha Bar, Sundays, Coldplay, AIR, Manu Chao, DM, Smiths, Jazzanova, John Mayer, Deep Dish, Carl Cox, Dj Shadow, Ninja Tunes, Wycleff, De La Soul, Cafe Tacuba, Bollywood Nights, Bukem&MC Conrad, John Mayer, Miss Kitten, timo maas, progressive & for a minute -- Electroclash!

JACKASS, Punked, The Simpsons & reality TV, MTV, but never for too long and preferably in a language other than English...

Leo

After going back to LA for the usual summer, after a year of teaching English as an assistant in France, I am now living and working in the Kansai region of Japan! I live in Kyoto and work in Osaka! I'm teaching English and trying to learn Japanese! I'm also doing some Online coursework in business. Before this I got my MA in the Social Sciences at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

I would say that I am pretty well-traveled. I've seen a lot of Western and much of Eastern Europe, India (studied in New Delhi for six months), parts of Southeast Asia like Thailand & Cambodia & also lived and studied in Madrid for a year & South Africa for four months. I've been to Mexico a lot and even Canada although it was only the East coast..I'd like to go to South America & Australia someday.

Anyway, besides these travels, believe or not I love some routine in my life. I enjoy quality time with family and friends and love to go out to bars, restaurants, musems and fun events. I try to work out 4 times a week, although this is just about impossible here in Japan!

Cool dorks, smart & fun people! Anybody in Kansai, Japan!?