CURRENT MISSION

-Surviving medical school and at the same time find some time to live life and try to chill out sometimes.
-Building my relationship to Jesus
-For the current year, I am a board member of the German Medical Students Association as a National Officer on Public Health. Sometimes I am wondering why I did that regarding the fact that I have quite few time for myself because there is always something to be done.

ABOUT ME

I...
...am curious and humble
...like listening to people's stories
...love chatting and get to know new people
...love learning new languages (speaking my mother tongue is rather boring to me)
...am passionate about a lot of things

PHILOSOPHY

No hurry in Africa ;-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

When I 'm travelling somewhere, I want to get to know the people. I don't travel only to see some sights, for me the most important thing is to get in touch with locals. I can be in a new town, and I will still put building social contacts over the sightseeing aspect and I would not be disappointed about not having "seen" anything because human relations count much more to me than architecture. So what's better than couchsurfing?

Interests

I am an enthusiastic climber and I love to be outside in the nature! I love to travel around and to discover new regions, be it abroad or new places in my home country as well :)

I love reading books as well. But lately I got problems to read because during the semester I am only reading books about anatomy, biochemistry and physiology and even in my free time I would like to read serious things because I don't want to read books without learning from it, but it doesn't really work out...

Then I love handcrafting. Especially crocheting, but also knitting and I am learning how to sew my own clothes. I am interested in many other forms of handcrafting but time is simply against me.

I am passionate about baking. I like to try complicated things and let my creativity bloom. I also like cooking but there I prefer it simple. I am discovering the vegan kitchen, so actually everything I make is vegan but as soon as I am elsewhere I also eat meat and dairy products, but I really want to reduce that to an essential amount. So my cooking strategy is quite easy: Take a huge mountain of the vegetables of the season growing in my region, chop them, throw them together and enjoy the fresh and healthy meal (:

I want to continue to learn about self-sufficient lifestyles and therefore I still want to discover different ways of life and talk to a lot of people. For example about anthroposophy, permaculture,...

And I like history. Like real stories from people where you are enabled to get a notion of how it used to be in former times and not boring descriptions of person x who killed person y to become president,...

• books
• cooking
• baking
• vegan
• working out
• reading
• traveling
• knitting
• anatomy
• history
• languages
• military science
• public health
• peace

Music, Movies, and Books

I love inspirational movies such as big fish and many others (to be completed).

I spend lots of my time reading diverse literature. I love fantasy novels by Trudi Canavan, and I adore all novels by Barbara Wood, I could just eat them!
At the same time I am very interested in development issues due to my stay in Africa.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

What counts as amazing surely is controversial... But there are many things. For example:
-experiencing the general training to become a soldier
-living in Togo for a year

-...being alive (:

Teach, Learn, Share

I like to keep Sokrates philosophy in mind: I know that I know nothing. So, I don't really feel as if I would know something special which I could share...

But maybe, if you're interested in learning how to crochet or knit, I can serve you...

What I Can Share with Hosts

I love cooking and also cleaning. So I won't leave any untidyness ;-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, England, France, Ghana, Italy, Netherlands, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Togo