My name is Chris! I live in the lovely university-town Marburg, where I'm doing an internship as a pharmacist in training. I come from a large family (four siblings), which made me value both the time spent in community and in privacy.
It try to live in awareness and open-mindedness as much as possible.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

With couchsurfing.org as a website, I have no experience so far.
I consider my experiences in Ghana in the beginning of 2014 very similar to those of a couchsurfer. Many of the small villages only have a single guest house, if they have one at all. The atmosphere is very intimate, as the guestroom was quiet often right next to the bedroom of the owners and I commonly shared meals, the bathroom and the privy with their family. I enjoyed it much more than the bigger hotels or lodges!

Interests

For sports, I particularly enjoy playing Ultimate frisbee! It's a great sport, if you have not heard of it, I urge you to check it out. It might quiet surprise you!
I also enjoy rock climbing (mostly indoors), skiing, hiking, casual biking, and occasionally canoeing. Any outdoors activity really, if I get the chance!
My friends and I usually spend our days and nights at the local river, the Lahn, or at particularly old-fashioned bars such as Irish pubs. Sometimes we get together to play board games, which I personally would love to do more often.
And of course I love myself a good book and tasty food!

• books
• dining
• pub crawls
• board games
• poker
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• canoeing
• skiing
• sports
• rock climbing
• study abroad

Music, Movies, and Books

For movies:
"V for Vendetta"
"The boat that rocked"
"Nordwand"
"Vier Minuten"

Music:
mostly rock/folk/punk, a little Hip Hop
Chadwick Stokes
Chet Faker
Dispatch
Xavier Rudd
Clueso
...this list could go on and on!

Books:
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
"The liar" by Stephen Fry
"The physicists" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
"The royal game" by Stefan Zweig
"The Hunger Games Trilogy" by Suzanne Collins
"A Song of Ice and Fire" by George RR Martin
"The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
aaand I've certainly read Harry Potter more often than I could count.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

As part of a five day trekking trip, we scaled the Colorado pyramid peak (4,2k meters)!
And last year, I won a small poker tournament in Las Vegas. This is not a particularly great achievement, but it felt amazing at the time.

Teach, Learn, Share

If you are passionate about something, I will be listening just as intentively.
If someone has something to share, whether it is a story, a lesson, or a riddle!

Personally, I could probably rave on about ant-keeping more than anyone would need to hear.