CURRENT MISSION: reduce reuse recycle upcycle cycle and be happy

ABOUT ME: I love art, music, literature, theater, movies, nature and traveling... and all that comes with it :) I am an English /Philosophy and Psychology teacher in a secondary school in Vienna and in my free time I love to be on the road going places I haven't been to, doing things I haven't done before :)

(: I am a happy-go-lucky person :)

PHILOSOPHY:
Strangers are friends you haven't met yet - come as a stranger leave as a family!
Life is what you make of it!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

surfing (and hosting) - and meeting interesting people who love this project and learning through traveling :)

Interests

ART (museums, colors, photography, origami, scrapbooks, drawing, scissors and glue)

MUSIC (concerts, dancing, singing, karaoke, guitars, sweet melodies and smart lyrics, creating soundtracks to my life)

LITERATURE (books, poems, novels, travel guides, bedtime stories, dr seuss, little comments on pieces of paper, postcard-texts)

MOVIES (great and surprising larger than life stories, movies under the stars)

THEATER (broadway, musicals, opera, plays, standing room)

NATURE (hiking, biking, skating, walking barefoot, sleeping under the stars, dancing in the rain and my hammock)

TRAVELING (I love to meet new people, to go places I've never been to, couchsurfing, talking to strangers and learning from them, broaden my horizons)

• arts
• books
• literature
• poetry
• singing
• theater
• photography
• concerts
• dancing
• walking
• partying
• gardening
• movies
• traveling
• scrapbooking
• drawing
• origami
• music
• guitar
• karaoke
• opera
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• teaching
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

If my life had a soundtrack these artists should play

...Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Bright Eyes, Eddie Vedder, Dispatch, Deer Tick, Bob Schneider, Young Rebel Set, Peter Mulvey, The Shins, Neil Young, Oasis, Angus and Julia Stone, Gisbert zu Knyphausen, Bon Iver, Portugal.The Man, Sister Hazel, Passenger, Damien Rice, State Radio, Mumford and Sons, Nick Drake, Jamaram, The Kooks, Kings of Convenience, ...

MOVIES: Annie Hall, Into the wild, Forrest Gump, Harry and Sally, Whatever Works, Harold and Maude, Across the universe, eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, the emperor's new groove, happy go lucky...

BOOKS - that have inspired me the one way or the other...

Siddharta - Hermann Hesse
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Alchimist - Paulo Coelho
Wittgensteins Nephew- thomas bernhard
Homo faber - max frisch
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - milan kundera
The Art of Loving - erich fromm

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Staying 9 days on Samothrace and experiencing the positive energy of this island and enjoying greek hospitality, Paris in fall, crossing the US from SF to NYC on a hippie bus with no seats but mattresses and about 30 most amazing people, first concert in Madison Square Garden Alanis Morissette opening up for Matchbox Twenty on Valentine's Day, summer party in kindergarten 25 kids singing the song I wrote about them and I clumsily strum my guitar...

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach how to fold crazy beautiful things out of colorful paper, how to play basic chords on the guitar, how to make friendship bracelets, how to be creative even though you were sooo convinced you are not... and I always try to teach active happiness which is very difficult but I will die trying before I give up :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Spain, United Kingdom, United States