CURRENT MISSION

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

ABOUT ME

Be welcome at my place and find out. Always happy to meet people from all over the world. Always happy to leave Europe to get a different perspective on politics, society than the image presented by the mostly narrow-minded media reports.

As you might have noticed, I haven't been active on CS lately. First of all, we moved to a great new apartment in early 2012, which made it impossible to host for a while. Secondly, there were private challenges that demanded some attention. Apart from that I should direct your attention towards the fact that I'm looking for a new job at the moment. This could change pretty fast, be sure to ask about my schedule when sending a request.

If you like the Simpsons and Futurama, I'm very likely to like you. ;-)

"New Yorker" of June 14 & June 21, 2010; short story by Jonathan Safran Foer - "Here We Aren't, So Quickly":

"And here we aren't, so quickly: I'm not twenty-six and you're not sixty. I'm not forty-five or eighty-three, not being hoisted on the shoulders of anybody wading into any sea. I'm not learning chess, and you're not losing your virginity. You're not stacking pebbles on gravestones; I'm not being stolen from my resting mother's arms. Why didn't you lose your virginity to me? Why didn't we enter the intersection one thousandth of a second sooner, and die instead of die laughing? Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?
I am not unrealistic any more. You are not unemotional. I am not interested in the news anymore, but I was never interested in the news. What's more, I am probably ambidextrous. I was probably meant to be effortless. You look like yourself right now. I was so slow to change, but I changed. I was probably a natural tennis player, just like my father used to say over and over and over.
I changed and changed, and with more time I will change more. I'm not disappointed, just quiet. Not unthinking, just reckless. Not willfully unclear, just trying to say it as it wasn't. The more I remember, the more distant I feel. We reached the middle so quickly. After everything it's like nothing. I have always never been here. What a shame it wasn't easy. What a waste of what? What a joke. But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere: on the split stools of this bar, by the edge of this cliff, in the seats of this borrowed car, at the prow of this ship, on the all-forgiving cushions of this thread-bare sofa in this one-story copper-crying fixer-upper whose windows we once squinted through for hours before coming to our senses: "What would we even do with such a house?"

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'll be happy to show you around. I'll be happy to provide shelter. I'll be happy to meet you.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Once I met a Belgian couple in Nimes, southern France. They invited me over to their place in Maastricht and the next week I was there spontaneously. I guess thats pretty much what couchsurfing is meant to be. They showed me around and I had a great time.
Please, somehow, include both my husband's and my name in any request.

Interests

I love languages. I hardly speak any, though. Working on Russian at the moment - my pronunciation sounds like a duck trying to bark. Grammar and vocabulary aren't that good, either.

Also, I'm a rationalist skeptic. I can keep going for hours on medicine and "alternative medicine", energy development and primary sources of energy, religion and other ideologies, social inequality and international politics. I am passionate and enjoy proper talks, be prepared to define your positions if you engage in a discussion with me.

• politics
• news
• chess
• socializing
• tennis
• communications
• languages
• medicine
• religion

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Botswana, Cambodia, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Laos, Namibia, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria

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