CURRENT MISSION

Stay healthy and sane while taking care of two small children.

ABOUT ME

I'm easy to get along with, but (hopefully) not boring.

I'm easy to enthuse, but hard to impress.

I'm indecision in persona, but reliable and cooperative.

I find life amazing and thrilling, but sometimes take it a trifle too seriously.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had my first CS experience in Austin, Texas, and it was great! Our host was very hospitable and helpful and made it possible for me and my friends to spend a few fantastic days in Austin.

Interests

I have so many interests that enlisting them somehow makes it look superficial - but I really do...

...LOVE reading, get lost in fascinating stories, be touched by how other people put ideas and feelings into words that are so fitting and true but that I would have never found.
...LOVE food - people from all over the world seem to share a similar desire to make cooking a form of art, and I take immense pleasure in exploring that form of art in the kitchen and in tasting the results
...LOVE making art, especially in the form of drawing and painting, but I also like photography and making music
...LOVE traveling and absorbing other cultures, preferably not as a tourist but living and working in foreign places
...LOVE learning new things- I think life is too short, because I already know that I can only learn a tiny percentage of all those things on my list...
...LOVE exploring Berlin - which can be a lifelong occupation.

Moreover, I like watching good movies and listening to good music (although I'm definitely not a music- or cinephile), dancing in the living room, spending time with my family, discussing different points of view, bike riding, yoga and other sports, fleamarkets and bookshops and health food stores, etc.

• arts
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• juggling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• sports
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS:
Erich Fromm, Haben oder Sein // John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath // Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

COMICS:
Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes // Ellis, Transmetropolitan // Winick, Pedro and Me

MOVIES:
The Kid // Citylights // Der Blaue Engel // O Brother where art thou // Waltz with Bashir

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have loved and been loved.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can officially teach languages, and besides that a few songs on the guitar, how to dance Cha-cha-cha, some basics about drawing and painting and cooking, how to juggle...

I am eager to learn and share pretty much anything.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Poland, Russian Federation, United States