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The older I get the more I understand that our relationships are the most important and precious treasure we have in our lives. When I travel I'm always more interested in people than in monuments. I learn so much from meeting other people by trying to understand their thoughts and feelings. To describe myself I have to use many paradoxes: I love to be in good company, but I also love to be alone. I think I'm an easy person although my son believes that I'm not able to smalltalk. I love the silence and try to avoid noisy places. If you are hosting me I will be grateful for a place to stay, but I don't expect more and especially I don't expect to be "entertained". I really love to sit and share with people what is dear to them and to me, and music plays an important role in my life. It is my deepest conviction that we have to develop in ourselves what we wish to receive from others. I can't expect you to be interested in me if I'm not interested in you; if I wish to be respected I need to have respect for others. Interest and respect are the first steps into the realm of love.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

When I started couchsurfing I did it from a practical point of view. I offered my couch because I thought of the possibility for myself to travel in a cheap way. But the longer I'm a member of CS the more I experience that it is much more than that. I feel like being part of a community of people looking for deeper human values in themselves and in others. Every single encounter encouraged me to try it myself and discover the world in this beautiful way.

兴趣

Classical music, reading, friends, languages, travelling, Sufism

• tango
• reading
• traveling
• classical music
• languages
• friends
• sufism

音乐、电影和书籍

Music: Mozart, Schubert, Bruckner, Bach, Beethoven, Janáček, Mussorgsky, Bartok, Tango argentino
Movies: La vita e bella, Karakter, Schindler's List, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Kite Runner, The Shawshank Redemption, Des hommes et des dieux
Books: Th. Mann:Joseph und seine Brüder, Doktor Faustus; Pasternak: Doktor Zhivago; Dostoyevsky: The Idiot; Tolstoi: Anna Karenina; Elif Shafak: The Forty Rules of Love; Goethe; C. F. Meyer; Adalbert Stifter; Franz Kafka; Shakespeare.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Chosen to live in Egypt
Crossed Jotunheimen from west to east alone

我游览过的国家

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Eritrea, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Wales

我居住过的国家

Denmark, Egypt, England, Germany, Russian Federation, Switzerland