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Berlin, State of Berlin, Germany
@Doughnuts-and-Kennedy
Member since 2008
CURRENT MISSION Deutsch lernen! ABOUT ME We'll have plenty of time to verbose over my persona later - preferably over strong coffee. PHILOSOPHY Happiness only real when shared
Interested in Art
Fluent in English
Learning German
5 Vouches
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING More than a couple of years ago now, I was hosted in many cities in Ireland and Spain. I greeted a small number of travelers in Madrid and Cambridge. Time and again, a wonderful experience of kindness. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE To be edited.
Music, Movies, and Books
Some writers/poets: French: Diderot, Stendhal, Flaubert, Céard, Anthelme, Yourcenar, Gracq, Beauvoir.. English: D.H Lawrence, T.S Eliot, Lessing.. German: Rilke, Schlink.. Spanish/Latin American: Unamuno, Carlos Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Valenzuela, Vargas Llosa, Arlt.. Political/economics authors: Keynes, Hayek, Naomi Klein, Marie-Monique Robin, George Monbiot, Sthatis Kouvelakis, Jaures, Tim Congdon... Some painters: Turner, Degas, Bonnard, Kandinsky, Chagall... Rest to edited.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
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Teach, Learn, Share
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My Interests
Non-exhaustive list: Intellectual: XVIII and XIXth century French literature and thought; European culture, and the debates revolving around the EU; left-wing politics (from marxism to Jaurés and Keynes); feminism; environmentalism; economics; languages; creative writing; art; D.H Lawrence (!). Other: English breakfast tea with the right dosis of milk, my Berlin milchkaffee under the sun, Clärchens Ballhaus, Berghain to name two of the capital's venues; English comedy (not the 9 o'Clock news, Jeeves and Wooster, Monty Python etc.); Brittany (France), its freshly carved coasts; colourful British accents; long walks; hammams.
