CURRENT MISSION

dreaming about my next trip to ghana

ABOUT ME

I like:
cities
creativity and painting
travelling
world-...-days
world music
my sketchbook
sleep late
tea and coffee
trains
trotros, bushtaxis or however you call them in other african countries
dancing
smile to a stranger
postcards
chocolate
summernights when you don't need to wear a jacket
africa
african cloths, music, food
my african friends
my swiss friends
my international friends
tapas and spanish food and drinks
the greening forest in spring
making photoalbums of my journeys
discuss about gender questions
cooking
feminism
my violin
the sun
full moon nights
my bicycle
my sister
crown caps
art and museums
try new kinds of food
BOOKS!
photography books
european movies
karambolage on ARTE
Tatort
djembes
colours
languages i don't understand
tall people (and short people)
newspapers
social involvement
ethnic jewelry
yoga
my balcony garden with thyme, rosemary, peppermint, parsley etc.
human rights
swimming
...........

PHILOSOPHY

love does not dominate it cultivates. (Goethe)
every human being is an artist. (Beuys)
be the change you want to see in the world. (Ghandi)
es gibt keine normen. jeder mensch ist eine ausnahme einer regel die es nicht gibt.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

2 good friends of mine made some couchsurfing experiences and i wanted to participate too when i was in scotland. unfortuantely it was not going to work...
finally it worked in malaga where i met a very nice host, and enjoyed a nice weekend!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

2 nights in malaga, very good experience
3 nights in budapest - amazing
1 night in sofia - great
1 night in zagreb - my favourite
2 nights in ljubljana - nice

hosting several people in Basel when I was living in a bigger flat - so sad its not possible at the moment! but all good experiences so far - keep it like that! :)

total: AWESOME!!

Interests

arts, music, literature, other cultures, people and their stories, politics, religions, social anthropology, medical anthropology, postcolonialism, and gender...........

• arts
• books
• literature
• photography
• festivals
• dancing
• human rights
• womens rights
• dining
• cooking
• chocolate
• coffee
• spanish food
• yoga
• drinking
• gardening
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• violin
• world music
• sailing
• swimming
• anthropology
• languages
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

mostly european movies: auf der anderen seite, im juli, amélie, bienvenue chez les ch'ties, solino, buddy, after the wedding...
LOST, How I Met Your Mother, Tatort, Karambolage
all kind of music: african (youssou n'dour, habib koité, tinariwen, soweto gospel choir, ghanaian high- and hip-life...), alternative/rock (arctic monkeys, MUSE, vampire weekend, kate nash, mando diao, sigur ros, anthony and the johnsons...) , world (julieta venegas, yann tiersen, beirut, spanish, irish or jiddish folk...) classical (sol gabetta, nigel kennedy, astor piazzolla, cello and violin)
all kind of books: biographic, cultural, historical, funny, (social-)scientific: chimamanda ngozi adichie, patrik süskind, fatou diome, martin suter, petra ivanov, henning mankell, jean ziegler, khaled husseini, sven regener, simone van der vlugt....)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

studying one semester at the university of ghana in accra. i'd truly say this was the time of my life: so good that one day i'll go and stay there!

spending 3 months in the Gambia, West Africa, teaching 4-8 year old
kids - lovely

drawing touristical subjects in valencia and selling them - enjoyable

going to dakar by a small car filled with 8 persons, i thought i was going to die - terrifying

as a child i spent with my family two summers (1997/1999) in HongKong. i still remember a lot of that and it is where my love for cities started - terrific

sailing 3 times during summer on the mud-flats and the northern sea in holland - adorable

august in edinburgh during the fringe festival, where i made a lot of new friends - awesome

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Benin, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, China, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Senegal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Gambia, Ghana, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland