CURRENT MISSION

Surviving life's crazy twists and turns

ABOUT ME

I´d call myself easy-going and reasonably fun. Or I at least can honour a good joke and pay you back with healthy sarcasm. I laugh a lot and might get a little too goofy at times. I can proudly say that I´m also able to laugh at myself.

I like people a lot. I think human beings are the most interesting and entertaining storybooks, teachers and inspirations for oneself.

I don't eat animals.
I do eat chocolate.

Sometimes I´m too positive about how things will work out for me in life. I´m more of a dreamer than a realist. But I think you can do worse than spending time with me. (go to the dentist for example)

PHILOSOPHY

It´s nice to be important, but it´s more important to be nice.

A smile on your face puts a smile on others.

and: Never hold back on things you really want to do!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I take and you give (in). Or was it the other way round? Do I even have to answer that? Huh...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Got stalked by an Israeli, fattened a German lady with cake, spoke one octave higher to another German´s baby, cleaned some Irish feet. TO BE CONTINUED...

Interests

I´m a person of the little things. I love the smell of rain, fresh cut grass and creepy attics. Old people holding hands are cute. I love Soap bubbles (it´s the glimmer) and whistling, old tea kettles. In my free-time I light and blow out matches just for the smell. On a cold day nothing makes me happier than looking out the window with a hot, steaming mug in my hands. Best time of the day is between 5 and 6am, when the air´s fresh and the day´s path still unwritten. With all the other people still asleep you could be the first or the last man on earth. I like fleamarkets and all that old stuff they come with.

I like art and from time to time express myself in several artistic ways like writing or doodle-ing (that even a word?) or photography. I read a lot. I'm a yogi. I love hiking and do a bit of rockclimbing.

• animals
• arts
• culture
• writing
• photography
• chocolate
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• working out
• traveling
• hiking
• camping
• dialects

Music, Movies, and Books

I can bury my nose in a book for a whole working-shift without noticing anything around me. I read kinda everything from novels to non-fiction. I do NOT read user's manuals.

Music-wise I'm kinda all over the place. I like the giants like Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin just as much as electronic music, singer-songwriter stuff, Balkan beats or even Hip Hop (mostly German). I don't get so excited about the stuff that makes it to the charts though and apparently have no clue who Bruno Mars is...

I used to be kind of a movie geek, but unfortunately lost track of what's happening on the screens about two years ago. Still my favorite directors would be Park Chan-Wook, David Lynch, Sofia Coppola, that Quentin guy, and Stanley Kubrick. I´m also really fond of Fatih Akin, a Turkish-German moviemaker.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

are best shared over coffee/tea/beer/wine or around camp fires

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to speak German in different dialects and give you an insight into the German culture and people. Also important: the meaning of "Brotzeit"! I can also try to make Germany attractive as a travel destination by being super nice and cool.

I would love to learn some Spanish. I did also always regret that I never put enough energy in learning French. (Come on...trying to teach a person a foreign language in the middle of puberty...who does that?) And anyway I think it´s super cool to at least be able to make some basic smalltalk in the language of the country you´re in. I´m very interested in how other people from other countries live so tell me all about it.

What I can share is a smile- always. I´m also pretty tall so I might reach for some apples or fruit that you maybe can´t. And if you want we can yogi out together.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Cambodia, China, France, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany

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