CURRENT MISSION

share my optimism for the future and what I know to make life better, but also improve myself by learning from others

ABOUT ME

having convinced my wife to go from Germany to France, we educate our 6 kids in a french-german way. From early on they learn that there are different ways to live, and we hope that in that way they find easier their place in the globalized world we live in today. - I am working in medical industry developing x-ray systems, in a global company, learning a lot from the contact with different cultures.

PHILOSOPHY

basically optimistic I believe in good future for our planet if we work for it...and that's what I try

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

meeting people, sharing my ideas, ready to host in my home, and continue to spread the CS idea in my surroundings

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

met very different people in Sicily and the Baltics so far..great experience

Interests

a lot....languages and natural science so far...but in the last years interest for human science / psychology has come up

• socializing
• engineering
• history
• languages
• mathematics
• physics
• psychology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies from Orson Welles, Luc Besson and Francois Truffaud and others, music from Beethoven, Chopin, Vanessa Mae, Kino and Kassav', books from Frank Schätzing, Ken Follett and Jean d'Ormesson - I am not really focussed to one style.....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Taking a hot/cold bath in Emerald's pool in Guadeloupe, climbing a waterfall in Dominica, having lunch in a standard Chinese canteen near Beijing, having my hair cut in a street in Beijing, riding motorbike in Kampot, Cambodia. In the eighties emprisoned for one day in Slovakia because of taking photos of the Danube border, getting help from train travellers against the Russion Milice in Sverdlovsk railway station.....

Teach, Learn, Share

I have some knowledge in physics, mathematics, french and german history, and electro-mechanical engineering. The kids keep me at standard high school knowledge level, that's great.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Life in a multi-kid family in somehow rural France

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Estonia, Finland, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany

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