CURRENT MISSION

Discover a new continent!

ABOUT ME

Me and my girlfriend Yumi are preparing for our move to Brisbane right now!

I just spent a year in Japan. I spent this time preparing for my planned PhD on urban green (for more about this, check my weblog Treepolis). My free time belongs to photography. Meanwhile I support myself working as a freelance translator and language teacher in Japanese, Englisch and German. I also publish the open research magazine Ecological Constitutions.

My next destination is Brisbane, Australia where I will pursue my urban green PhD!

PHILOSOPHY

"For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse it's full length. And there I travel looking, looking, breathlessly." ~Don Juan

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted great people and surfed with even niver ones ;)

Interests

Interesting people, photography, green urban planning, philosophy, technology, biology, society, constitutions, plants, discussions, karaoke, role-playing, politics, sushi!

• books
• photography
• beauty
• cooking
• politics
• technology
• traveling
• karaoke
• biology
• ecology
• teaching
• freelancing
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Nausicaa, Amelie, Ozu Yasujiro movies, Watchmen, Star Trek, Babylon 5, James Bond

Jazz, Shiina Ringo, Dvorak, Bach, 8bit music...

Malazan Empire series, Stanislaw Lem Books, Kim Stanley Robinson, George R. R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, Anne of Green Gables, Carlos Castaneda, Hermann Hesse

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw the wild beauty of Scotlands outer Hebrides and the shining ice on the flora on top of a summit in mid-china, the amazing rock formations of central Turkey and the world's most wonderful colours in autumn Hokkaido.
I've seen my grandfather love my grandmother through a severe illness during which she was almost unrecogniseable as the person she was before, and I've seen her getting healed by his unwavering faith.
And I've seen my sleeping girlfriend's face.

Teach, Learn, Share

modest Japanese
German
English
urban planning
social systems
political philosophy
ecology
book of life, preface page 3 :D
computer skills
some cooking skills
basic sewing
general knowledge ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Czech Republic, Niger, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Japan, United Kingdom

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