My name is Daniel Pfaff and welcome to this blog! (If you are confused about the title of the blog, or the first line, go read the P.S. section at the end of this post.)
Here is my bland college introduction: I am a Junior majoring in Biochemistry and Linguistics. I am from Kansas City, MO. And my favorite style of potatoes is some nice thin french fries (Think McDonalds but like better).
Me halfway into an eight hour hike in Northern Italy: Personal Photo.
For a little more in-depth about my studies, I would eventually like to go on to study neurolinguistics in grad school (which is the study of how the brain processes language), but that is very long term. In the near term, I love learning languages! Besides random little phrases in various languages, I have studied Latin for many years, I speak Italian at an almost conversational level, and I am just starting to learn ASL!
Adjacent to my love for languages, and a drive for me to learn other languages, is my love of traveling. I was lucky enough that my family could travel around the United States as a kid, but my focus in the last few years has been international. I have done a bit of traveling throughout the Caribbean, and I studied abroad at OU in Arezzo, Italy last spring semester. I had the amazing opportunity to work as an English teaching assistant for an Italian high school, and my students probably taught me about their slang, hobbies, and customs just as much as I taught them (I even taught them a bit about Ultimate frisbee, which I play here at OU!). My love for travel is actually the inspiration for my blog name! (Scroll down to the bottom of this post for further explanation). I traveled throughout a lot of Europe while I was there, and I will continue my world traveling throughout my life!!
Heres some more fun facts about me:
- I have visited 12 countries
- I collect national flags at the country's capital and I have seven flags so far.
- I have driven a steamboat down the Mississippi River.
- I biked 50 miles in one day (but I am not a biking guy at all. It was rough.)
- I can recite 100 digits of pi.
- I am the 2011 State Fence Painting Champion in Missouri.
Me overlooking the Florence skyline last spring: Personal Photo.
P.S. - Vagabond (noun) [vag·a·bond | ˈva-gə-ˌbänd] : a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home; one leading a vagabond life. (Merriam Webster)
Yes, I am going all in on vagabond puns. Go big or go home right? Actually vagabonds don't have a home haha jokes.
P.P.S. - I will admit I did kind of maybe steal the word Vagabuddies from a travel YouTube channel called the VagaBrothers, so go check them out. They did a great 6 month travel around the world challenge video series a few years ago, so I highly recommend that!
