CURRENT MISSION

PhD student

ABOUT ME

hard to say...the others should do... just ordinary guy who loves to travel, who is excited to be either CS host or a CS guest, a Master in global history and Spanish language, PhD student of multicultural education

PHILOSOPHY

Hope Dies Never,
All You Need Is Love (John Lennon),
Do Love and Do Anything You Want (St. Agostino),
An Eye for an Eye Makes All the World Blind (Mahatma Gandhi)
The Shadow Proves The Sunshine (Jon Foreman)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

marvelous. I´ve met great people, indeed... hosted over 100 guests, couchsurfed about 30 places

Interests

traveling, my beloved family, listening people's stories, movie fan, playing acoustic guitar (trying to sing too), music (see below), literature (classic fiction and non-fiction/especially history, religion, art and multicultural stuff/), hanging out with my friends, languages, religion(s)

• arts
• literature
• singing
• education
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• teaching
• history
• languages
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES:
Passion of the Christ (Gibson), Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick), Straw Dogs (Peckinpah), El Callejon de los Milagros (Fons), Midnight Express (Parker), Dr. Strangelove or How I Started to Dont Worry and Love the Bomb (Kubrick), Invisible Man (Whale), Psycho (Hitchcock); all Kubrick's stuff, all Hitchcock's stuff... and many many more

BOOKS:
Petit Prince (Exupery), Les Miserables (Victor Hugo), American Tragedy (Dreiser), La Caciora (Alberto Moravia), They shot horses don't they? (McCoy), Citadela (Exupery), Karamazov Brothers (Dostojevskij), The World According to Garp (Irving), 1984 (Orwell), Conde de Monte Cristo (Dumas), Psalms (Bible)

MUSIC:
Switchfoot, Jon Foreman, The Beatles, Delirious?, Needtobreathe, Crowder, Oasis, Radiohead, Dire Straits, INXS, American and English worship bands

Favorite Song: Imagine - John Lennon; Your Love Is Strong - Jon Foreman

Favorite Album: The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd; Sgt. Pepper's - guess by who :)

Favorite Music Video: Jesus Freak - DC Talk, Radiohead stuff

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Crazy stuff first:
- arrested in Iraq (actually not amazing)
- stood on the land mine in Angola (not amazing, indeed)
- survived the attack of grizzly bear in Alaska (female with two cubes, thanks God "just" bluffing)
- swing-jump in Zambia/Zimbabwe (Zambezi river, few days prior to the rope broke with one girl)

Memorable stuff:
Iran and USA and Kurdistan.... it's all about people, not rubbish politic.
Sahara, amazing indeed
Victoria Falls from Zimbabwe's side......the most amazing thing I have seen...ever!
Unbeatable Barcelona and crazy but cute New York City!
Tajikistan - breathtaking Pamirs!
Armenia - touching story and history
Samoa - paradise island, not just the nature, the people especially!
Israel - story of history
I've spent two years in Angola, on a development project as a teacher, a peculiar experience I am glad for it and glad that it's over at the time
Over 25.000 kms hitch-hiking mostly in Europe

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Angola, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Samoa, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Angola, Canada, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

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