CURRENT MISSION

To help my fellow man and live a harmonious life

ABOUT ME

I am 73 and my husband Bo is 66. We are translators and work as a team and we are very active. We believe that aging is caused by ones attitudes. If you believe that you can do something, you can.

In the Summer 2013 we went on a trip to England and Scotland in our RomaHome, a mini camper, called Indy (after Indiana Jones.)

You can follow us in this blog:
http://headingforadventure.wordpress.com/

PHILOSOPHY

Even a long journey starts with one single step. We want to make this world to a better place and we work hard for human rights, spiritual freedom etc.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted and met the people below and I have also attended some CS events. It has been a great pleasure to meet and talk to all these nice people. They have all enriched our live.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

1. Minjing Ji,Shanghai, gave me a dinner invitation to Shanghai.
2. Jasmin Schnyder, Switzerland. We laughed a lot and she has invited me to Switzerland.
3. Emelie and Thomas from France. I got a book by Anna Galvadda and an invitation to Rennes.
4. I attended a CS event at the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg and I liked it.
5. Arpad Kovacs from Budapest. Learned us a lot about Hungary.
6. Attended after work at a Chineese restaurant with about 30 CS-members.
7. Valerie and Felisa from Germany. We created a taco buffet together and Felisa did her specialty - brownies. Valerie gave me coffee from her hometown Göttinger and an invitation to Tubingen.
8. Elena and her son Kiril from Belarus. They are the first ones I have met from Belarus. We prepared a dinner together and spent a nice evening together with
9. Michael Gentschy from Bad Reichenhall, who also is a couchsurfer. He is a very interesting person.
10. Bobby and Kellie. We celebrated Walpurgis night together by listening to a speech to welcome the spring and male choirs in the Hortocultural park and watching the Chalmerscortege (a parade made by students).
11. Maria P. She came here for a conference. We had a very nice time together although Bo and I was very busy. We watched a Russian movie together, Elena, and had a "fika" at Hagabion (cinema).
12. Jasmin from Switzerland came back a second time and it was really nice to meet her again. This time the weather was fine and she didn´t like to return to Switzerland.
13. Susanna T. She is Swedish (with Finnish descent). She is on training to become an elevator techncian, being the only woman among 27 participants she is a real pioneer.
14. Desiree Lim from Singapore. We did a barbecue in the kitchen as it was too cold outside. And we talked a lot and took a walk in Slottsskogen. I am so excited about the "girlpower" in all these young women I have met!
15. Ana da Silva. Born in Brazil, now living in Amsterdam. I am happy that I could offer her a typical Swedish Midsummer celebration together with my friends.
16. Lila Cousin. Lila is from Lyon and had studied to become a film director in Brussels. It was a great pleasure to meet her.
17. Judith & Silvi from Bochum, Germany. Bo took care of them, the weather was nice and they could enjoy "Kulturkalaset" (a yearly festival).
18. Detlev from Germany. He came to Gothenburg because his son will study for 4 months at Chalmers.
19. We went to Prague for one week and stayed with a non-cs, but we met two coachsurfers Radek Smuda and Rainer. They were both very nice and we hope to meet them again.
20.We hosted Gosia and Bozena, originally from Polen, now living in London. We loved to host them and will coach surf in there home in 3 weeks in London.
21. I met Hjördis, another CS:er in my age, and we had a lot of things to talk about.
22. Liisa from Tallin. She came here for a course at Valand. I told her that my grandfather had studied at Valand and I took photo of her and two small paintings from Valand.
23. Bo and I were in London with Gosia and Bozena. It was our first experience as surfers. It was very nice to visit them and see their house and we were warmly welcomed.
24. Reza Mahmoudi from Teheran. Reza is a vet and part of a national committee and was in Sweden in his profession. See the incredible story about Reza and the rabbit in my reference of him.
25. Francesca is from Trieste in Italy. She is also a translator so we had a lot in common.
26. Nieves from Granada, Spain. She is a teacher in English and came here for a short vacation. We went to Liseberg and saw the 5 milj. lights.
27. Jenna Polloch from NY. She is a dancer from Juillard School NY and was touring for auditions in Europe.
28. Mahmoud and Maria from Brno. Mahmoud is originally from Egypt and Maria from Palestine and they are studying in Brno. Mahmoud for PhD in Agrucultural sciences and Maria to become a veterinary.
29. Vanessa from Germany. She had been at Nordens Ark on a special projekt. She is an expert in forestry and her Thesis (for Bachelor) was about bark beetles (barkborrar).
30. Susan Daniels. Susan is Danish, she is a CS and living in Malmö. She was in Gothenburg over Easter, not staying with us. We invited her for an Easter buffé.
31. Valentina and Lucio from Trento, Italy. They had a few days vacation from the Univeristy and came to explore Gothenburg.
32. Balaji and Tamara from Hyberabad, India. They were on a back-packing-tour through Europe and stayed with us for four days.
33. I stayed one night with Bozena Edman in Malmö after having terminated the lease and emptied my apartment in Arlöv.
34. We stayed with David Pears in Bath for 2 nights.
35. We stayed with Delia and Alan one night in Birmingham.
36. We stayed with Nicky and Dan one night in Edinburgh.
37. Jasmin visited us in the summer 2014 and celebrated midsummer 2015 in our summer house in Herrljunga.

Interests

I find life and living very interesting, with all its implications. I am so happy that I still live and I want to live at least to 90. I find that almost everything I encounter interests me. (Exceptions: sport and hard rock)

• culture
• books
• festivals
• dancing
• human rights
• coffee
• bbq
• coach
• movies
• blogging
• camping
• sports
• teaching
• forestry
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Classical music, jazz, pop and Swedish minstrels
Movies: The Man from Le Havre, Fried green tomatoes, Jane Austen Book Club, The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency and many more
Books: I am a passionate book reader. Here are som books I have read recently: Marina Lewycka: A short history of Tractors in Ukrainian; Mary Ann Shaffer: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Two amazing things I have done: My son Magnus and my daughter Jenny.

Teach, Learn, Share

I would love to share some experiences I have had in my life!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Sweden, United States

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