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Overview

  • 15 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German, Spanish; learning French, Italian
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Social worker with refugees
  • Development Studies (University of Vienna)
  • From Austria
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

discovering not only "new places" but also already familiar ones BUT with different ideas/perspectives/experiance hence THEY APPEAR surprising again :=)

ABOUT ME

The world is too big-multifaceted-colorful-arcane to only stay at "home"...

there is so much to explore/learn...and even itâ

PHILOSOPHY
::GLEICHHEIT in der VIELFALT::
"An open minded-person might learn more during a walk (around the backyard) than "seeing-blinds" might do so in a journey to the other side of the globe..."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Once I read one poetry in Mexico, San Christobal de las casas, which inspired me to the following: “One does not value by what he/she possesses but rather how many people one met and arose more open minded”

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

as a guest I only had really good experiences
as an participant in local groups (Tampere, Genova) I met so far many interesting people... also some friendships emerged out of CS :=)

as host not that much yet
BUT
curious to gain more (as I am living in a shared flat i respect also the space of my mates... BUT still I can "take and give" to the community

Interests

to go to bed every day with some new ideas, new/other things learnd, some questions answered and some new ones poped up

to see life positive... though and ESPECIALLY because this world is unjust and unfair and today´s striking inequality in opportunities on human lives (eg. if u are withe or black skinned or which citizenship u have, in case u have one...) roots form historically interventions (colonizations, WW1, WW2, Washington consenus,capital market-orientated financial/econimic system, etc)

everything what makes life more worth living

  • poetry
  • traveling
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

movies, documentaries, theatre, etc which still animates you to continue to think although its already ended...

e.g. For a Moment, Freedom, Waltz with Bashir, Memento, Dr. Strangelove, Battleship Botembkin, Mulholland Drive, Syriana, HOME, Lets make money,...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

...pure NATURE

Teach, Learn, Share

stories
jokes
traveling experience
talking about astrology
abouth 4,3 Billion years of earth history

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Iran, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Finland, France, Italy, Nicaragua, Switzerland

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