I live together with Markus, we are married since 2009 and are looking forward to welcoming guests in our flat! I am forty (born 1976) and he is sixtythree years old.

He`s from switzerland an I came here due to him. We live in a beautiful surrounding. Our flat ist in the middle of the village of Hombrechtikon. Hombrechtikon lies near the lake of zurich - you can see the mountains with their snowy heads. There are many possibilities for having a nice walk around through meadows, hills, forest. There ist a lake in the midst of beautiful landscape for swimming only 10 minutes from our place, the lützelsee.

I myself work many hours a day as gardener - so we will meet only in the evenings / on sunday. Markus works two days a week and has more time to share with you. He only speaks a little english, that`s important to know!

Markus has worked thirty years on the zurich airport as airplane-truckdriver. He still likes to drive and has the licence to drive everything from motorcycle to bus and truck. Apart from that, he loves animals and he is a magician.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to
- meet new people & learn to know different ways of living and beeing.
- connect, talk, share our home
- share what`s alive in us.

I like to welcome people in our home, and, if you like, to cook & eat together and to show you around in the hills of the "Zürcher Oberland" (that`s how this region is called).

I am looking forward to stay with people, why travelling, becauce it means connecting to a place and people in a deeper way.

Interests

My big five for life (the most important things, I want to do):

A - Agriculture in community: connecting growers and consumers in solidarity, trust, appreciation (CSA)

L - Living words: to tell stories, inciting the imagination, creating a world inside us, inspiring to evolve ourselves

I - Intercropping Garden: to create a forest-intercropping-community garden (permaculture)

V - Vital food & ecosystem: to care for the soil, the plants, the animals and men in a biodynamic way of agriculture

E - Empathic and self-conscious communication: connecting to our needs and finding solutions fitting for the well-beeing of everyone (nonviolent communication / Marshall Rosenberg)

Music, Movies, and Books

I like to read generally: to plunge inside other people`s worlds. Some Books I really liked: Harry Potter, shantaram, the lord of the rings, the memory of running by Ron MacLarty, books of Fred Vargas and Walter Satterthwait.

Reinhard Mey, a-capella music from the King`s Singers and the comedian harmonist to the wise guys, sometimes klezmer and classical music, folk - in short: music, which is skilfully made by voice and hand.

Some movies I liked: Dead poets society, Much ado about nothing by Kenneth Brannagh, More than honey and We feed the world.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I made a sabbatical in 2005, travelling in summer as whoofer in england and working on the stage of the goetheanum in Dornach / Switzerland.

Teach, Learn, Share

I just found a saying from Ghandi, I like very much:
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow
- Learn as if you were to live forever

I can share most of all knowledge about the art of storytelling and also the art of breathing / voice-work.

I am still learning more and more about agriculture and vegetable-growing, biodynamics, permaculture and like to have an exchange of ideas about that.

I am also still learning the art of nonviolent communication and it`s a pleasure to talk about that too, if someone is interested.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cooking, Stories, Visions, Ideas, Experiences, Silence, Joy, Grief... whatever seems appropriate for us in the moment.

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, England, Finland, France, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Switzerland