Hi, my name is Florian Deitmerg and I'm 20 years old now.
While I'm writing this, my last A-Level exam is just a few hours ago.
I grew up in Herscheid, a small village in Germany. I'm also doing my vocational training as an educator right now (it's 4 years, but compared with my A-Levels). So I will work one year as an educator and will finish my training in 2016.

When I'm not learning for school or looking after children in the kindergarten, I make music by myself, also listen to music, read books and try to learn polish. We will see if it works.
A new hobby I've dicovered a few years ago, is "outdoor" if you'd try to say it in one word. In detail it's hiking with friends a few days through the forests, bushcrafting in the woods of Herscheid and training some survival-skills, -and it's a lot of fun.

If you want to know more about me, please don't be shy to ask! :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Today (19. May 2015) I was planning my holidays for this summer. I realized, that I haven't got enough money for my plans. I wanna buy a new bagpack for hiking, go a few days to Amsterdam with a few friends and discover Poland for a few days. At the very latest after the bagpack I realized, that there won't be enough money for travelling around.

I remembered a friend, who told me about "couchsurfing" and I thought a few minutes about it. I love it to see more of the world (and in Herscheid you haven't seen very much of it) and I really want to get to know the people and the culture of the countries. Last year in Italy I realized, that living in a tourist-village seperates you from the real face of the country.

I think couchsurfing is a good possibility to learn more about a country, it's culture and the people. I also think, that it's a good way to get to know new people. And incidentally it protects our purse and makes it possible to do all theses things. :)

Interests

I love listening to music and also making music is a great hobby of mine.
I have a small Acoutic-Rock and Fairytale One-Man-Band called "Nekrolog" where I compose songs by my own with my guitar.
Furthermore I play drums since the age of 6 years.

I love reading books (and also tried to write some ... TRIED) and I like the genre Fantasy.

Sometimes I go hiking with a friend for a few days and I go into the forest to enjoy the nature.

I also have a project called "WorldFriendshipBracelet". The aim is to connect as many people as possible as friends and for this I'm creating some bracelets.

• culture
• writing
• books
• breakfast
• reading
• traveling
• survival
• music
• guitar
• drums
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• camping
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

My favorit music comes from the "dark-scene". I don't think that bands like "ASP", "Samsas Traum", "Die Kammer", "HENKE", "Faun" or "Omnia" are a household name for you, but if you want, you can check them out.

I love movies, but unfortunately I don't have much time to watch them. But "Lord of the Rings", "Into the Wild", "The hobbit", "Avatar", "Game of Thrones" or "A Beautiful Mind" are some movies I really like.

For books I also don't have as much time as I would like to have, but I like Fantasy-Books like "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" by Michelle Paver, "The Hobbit", "Harry Potter", but also non-fictional books like "Die große Volksverarsche" by Hannes Jaenicke, "Fearless Death" by Lama Ole Nydahl, or "Mein Leben" - the biography by Mahatma Gandhi.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In november 2014 I wanted to test my new hammock in the forest. It became dark very fast, so I hurried up to build up ma hammock and my tarp. Then a rope broke I was lying half on the ground. But it was too dark to fix it. So at 5pm it was very dark. At 9pm it began to rain very heavy and I was lying alone in the deepest forest. It rained and rained. At 8am the next morning It was light enough to see something. So I had breakfast broke up my camp and went home, - in the rain.

Sounds not very funny, but I can tell you: It was one of the best nights ever! :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany