CURRENT MISSION

Staying hungry, staying foolish.

ABOUT ME

Benedikt, twenty-seven years old, recently finished his master studies in Decision Sciences at Maastricht University and just returned to Europe from a longer stay in Southern Africa, currently working as a development consultant in Hamburg, Germany. Easy going person that loves traveling and all that it yields: meeting new people, visiting different places and admiring the beauty of each culture. Enjoys writing, doing many kinds of sports, going to music shows, theater, cinema or just out for a drink, taking photos, having a randomly thoughtful or thoughtfully random conversation (take your pick!) and many more other stuff. Well, is not very good in describing himself, so hopes his interests do better...

PHILOSOPHY

The shortest path to yourself leads once around the world.

There must be more to life than having everything.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing and hosting!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Fortunately lots of!
I've been on world tip with a friend of mine. Done Couchsurfing all over the world. We've been to UK, US, New Zealand, the South Pacific and China - a great time...and what can I say, best thing you can do while traveling!

For more information, check out our profile:

http://www.couchsurfing.com/profile.html?id=42TBS7P

Interests

Surfing, sunsets, surfing sunsets, inappropriate jokes, juice, abandoned places, football, basketball, rugby, literature, writing, playing the guitar, photography, art, theater, movies, opera, philosophy, politics, history.

well, many sorts of stuff...

• arts
• culture
• writing
• literature
• theater
• photography
• beauty
• drinking
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• opera
• surfing
• sports
• basketball
• soccer
• rugby
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Endless Summer, Step into Liquid, Stay, Koyaanisqatsi, No Country for Old Men, Amour, Brazil, The Departed, American Beauty, 21 grams, Hable con ella, Biutiful, Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du coran, Tarantino, Jarmusch, Coen, Godard and Kubrick stuff.

Music:
Punkrock, Hardcore, Alternative/Indie, Rap/HipHop, Electro, Classical.

Books:
Cien anos de soledad (Marquez), Borderliners (Hoeg), Faust (Goethe), The New Life (Pamuk), Independent People (Laxness), Catch 22 (Heller), Ruhm (Kehlmann), Homo Faber (Frisch), Norwegian Wood (Murakami), The Reader (Schlink), Crime and Punishment (Dostojewski), Post Office (Bukowski).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Iceland.

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Botswana, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Gibraltar, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Samoa, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Namibia, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom