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  • 6 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in German, Swiss German; learning English, French, Italian, Māori, Serbian
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • survival
  • studying german language and biology. currently off study...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to rehabilitate the reputation of cockroaches

ABOUT ME

Acctually I'm not a halfcast. A "quartcast" would describe my physiological appearance ways more precisely.
I like animals especially if their breath smells from gras and hay. And I love all kind of insekts and spiders. So I keep some of them as my pets.
Tongue twisters amuse me a lot and other interesting things in the languages of this world.
Basically I'm a calm person but not if I brim over with enthusiasm for something I (re-)discovered. Then I have to walk, write, build, paint or dance.
I love exploring the world its details and its hidden places.
Because my family decided to distribute all around the globe I learnd to travel far distances as a little child and still like it to get in contact with different cultures and people.

PHILOSOPHY

A carpenter said to me once:
"dumm derfschde sai. bleed derfschde sai. du brauchsch der blos zu helfe wisse!"

(you may be stupid. you may be silly. you only need to know how to find a way!)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Now that I heard of couchsurfing and its great opportunities I'd love to be part of it and explore the couches and cultures of this globe.
I'm may be able to host but my flatmte and I just found a new flat in Olten that is after a some time still prety chaotic. But for coffee, tea and other support around Solothurn/Olten feel free to text me.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

There is a lot of experience so far but not on this side.
I know the couches of the family and friends. There has never been a problem due to my frugality. I have even slept on the floor, on trees, stairs or between cows. :)

visited 26 states (11.5%)Create your own visited map of The World or Brazil travel guide for Android

Interests

!!walking!! and writing POSTCARDS!!! :D
meeting new poeple from different cultures, learning about other point of views, train trips, going out for a drink, dancing, exploring old cities and villages, cows and other animals, languages, touching rivers and lakes, gardening, nature in general...

  • animals
  • pets
  • writing
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • coffee
  • walking
  • drinking
  • gardening
  • traveling
  • painting
  • languages
  • tourism
  • lakes
  • rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Adams Aebler, Sennentuntschi, Immer nie am Meer, Star Trek Voyager, Mary Poppins, Todo sobra mi madre, Avatar: The last Airbender (cartoon), Matrimonio all'italiana,...

music:
K-Pop, J-Pop, Balkan-Pop, Oldies (20-70ies), Ethno-Pop, Highlife Music, Pop 90ies-now, Classical, Traditional...

Books:
Fred Vargas' criminal novels, Le grand Meaulnes, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts,Lat de rätte komma in...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Every year in autum when the typical and heavy mists from the river Aare cover my hometown completely you can barely see 10m ahead. Then it's the time to go up the mountain Weissenschtein (White stone) into the sunnshine and overlook the bright sea of fog that is held back by the beautyfull and shine Alps.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you Swiss German tongue twisters, some Ghanaian dances and how to cook the classical groundnut-soup with chicken from one of my home towns.
I like to learn new dances, games and tongue twisters too...or even something else.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Switzerland

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