AUGUST/ SEPTEMBER 2023: CURRENTLY ON A SHORT TRIP IN ESTONIA, FINLAND AND POLAND
after completing my degree in Innovation Management and before starting a new job in the field of renewable energy (yessss I’m stoked!)

Overall mission: Learning about sustainability, green technologies, circular economy, off-grid living, ect., + sharing laughter and joy while doing so

2014 Netherlands, Singapore
2015 Colorado, US, China, Greece, Colorado, US, Taiwan, Japan
2016 South Korea, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands
2017 France, UK, Portugal, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia
2018 Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam
2019 Vietnam, Indonesia, Australia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Nepal, Turkey, Georgia,... aaand back to Austria for the first time in 2,5years (;
2020 - 2023 life (auntie duties, academic endeavors and love (;) made me settle back in Austria, some travel stints to Slovenia, Italy, Hungary, Cyprus, Portugal, Germany, Croatia… exploring around the home turf

PHILOSOPHY

Ich glaube an ein Leben vor dem Tod
I believe in life before death

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Just a huge fan of the CS spirit - great experiences and even greater people
CS is the manifestation of loving the person next to you - genuine generosity

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

until now I've mostly contributed as a "surfer" but ever since settling down a bit, I’ve had the honor of sharing my home with some travelers as well (:

Interests

PEOPLE,
what is it that makes a place special? it's the people
I believe that you can learn something from every person you meet (and I just love listening

little self-advertisment here: http://annapriewasser.tumblr.com or https://www.instagram.com/annprie/
this is where I share portraits of the people I meet on the road - a never-ending project - become part!

Former field service engineer, working all over the world commissioning machines for the semiconductor industry.. which raised the question of ->
Sustainability. How can each and every one of us live a life that is in balance with our environment?

I am excited to meet people that are driven by this question and are (if not already) willing to explore new/old ideas, driving change and making a better tomorrow.

• singing
• design
• dancing
• human rights
• dining
• cooking
• drawing
• music
• computer science
• engineering
• journalism
• sustainability
• innovation
• communication
• photojournalism
• body language
• portrait photography
• circular economy

Music, Movies, and Books

in this second
I want to let my heart beat
once more for the sake of it
not for someone else
not for myself
and not for anything
in this second
I feel
one actually can live
this freely

(Ren Hang)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

everyday
- breaking my ankle in Vietnam and learning to walk again
- ending up in an Italian restaurant, surrounded by Italians, espresso, the sound of romantic Italian ballads played on a shabby keyboard, all in all.. having the most Italian experience you could have,.. oh and all of this in some industrial city in China in the middle of the night
- jumping into the sea (4°C-ish) in Korean winter, accompanied by Baywatch intro music and work colleagues cheering me on
- my last week in South Korea: on a little trip to Han River to show my colleague around (who had just come here a day ago to be my substitute for several weeks / his first time in KR), we stumbled upon an open air concert for a classical music festival. We ended up on stage (together with 2 Mexican guys who where also to slow to leave the crowd), singing some traditional Austrian song on stage in front of 400-500 people (;
- putting up my hammock and sleeping in an abandoned camping facility somewhere in Portugal (imagine empty/ trashed camper vans, tents and personal items distributed on a football field sized space)
- finishing a roadtrip with exactly 7777,7km (and questioning my existence for a solid 10min)
- witnessing true love and compassion between strangers on a bus ride to the port of Athens, Greece at 4am in the morning
- shaved my head and had my jaws broken willingly

etc etc etc etc life's dope, magic is to be found everywhere

Teach, Learn, Share

teach:
playing the ukulele, German, very basic Korean, gourmet-lessons? the most delicious vegan chocolate cake (; methods of innovation management, creativity techniques

learn: just show me whatever you're passionate about, I'm excited to learn about it (oh and when I say I'm learning Spanish in the "Languages I'm Learning" that is indeed a bit of wishful thinking haha - please teach meee)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Laughs laughs laughs, good vibes, ukulele playing , singing, my love for cooking and eating, stories about love, life and anything else

I do have some programming skills and I have experience as an electrical engineer, so if you have any soft/hardware problems I'm happy to lend my brain/hands

pictures, I take portraits and share them with you

Innovation management / creativity techniques

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Latvia, Malaysia, Monaco, Nepal, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, South Korea, Viet Nam