CURRENT MISSION

Learning Croatian, and after that maybe world domination ;)

ABOUT ME

I'm a friendly, placid and modest guy, who is always open for something new. I like meeting people of different parts of the world to expand my horizon and to see things from a different perspective.

PHILOSOPHY

Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.

Don't judge a book by its cover!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to see the world, starting with Japan and get to know new interesting people and places ;)

Interests

reading (books and comics/mangas)
spend time with friends
music
listening: almost all kinds of music
playing: marching band (clarinet) and guitar (a bit)
watching movies/TV series
cooking: I love to experiment
playing games (computer, board and card games)
languages

Music, Movies, and Books

difficult to choose, a few favourites :)
Movies: Memento, Inception, Gran Torino, Adam's Apples, Little Miss Sunshine, American Beauty, Up, Wall-E, 3 Idiots, In Bruges, La Vita e bella, Sin City, Prestige, The Dark Knight, Moon, Her, Moonrise Kingdom, Grand Budapest Hotel

Music: Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Tesseract, Karnivool, QOTSA, Porcupine Tree, The Strokes, The Coral, SOAD, The Mars Volta, Maximo Park, Mudvayne, Franz Ferdinand, Kansas, Metronomy, Queen, Journey, The Who, Radiohead, Coldplay, Infected Mushroom, People In Planes, Panic At The Disco, Modeselektor, Thrice, Leprous, Patrick the Pan, The Do, Everything Everything, Moderat, Käptn Peng, Die Ärzte

Books: Chess Story (Stefan Zweig), The Judge and His Hangman (Friedrich Dürrenmatt), The Story of Mr. Sommer (Patrick Süskind), A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), Ubik (Philip K. Dick), The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Judgement (Franz Kafka), The Sea-Wolf (Jack London), The Devotion of Suspect X (Keigo Higashino)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being interviewed on my last day in japan for japanese television channel about japanese vs. austrian fruits :)

Missing my connecting flight from Beijing to Shanghai and being stranded there for a few hours without money, internet and knowledge of Chinese. That was actually a more or less terrible experience, but it's a good story to tell :P

Teach, Learn, Share

teach: German
learn: other languages

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Croatia, Japan