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Overview

  • 5 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Spanish
  • 46, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • traveller
  • university degree
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION
We are Steffen, Franka and India, a German family, who loves traveling. Lots of our references you can also find on my partners profile: https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/franka_and_steve

See as much places, meet as much pleople, get as much experiences, learn as much, be free as much as possible!
Since October 2013 it is 3 of us. With our daughter India we traveled to the Canary Islands, Thailand, Japan, and Australia, where we traveled and lived for 4 years. Our big mission is to show our little daughter this beautiful world and its people so that she will grow up with lots of cultures, languages, respect and tolerance - living a simple but happy life! At the end of 2019 we will come back to Europe and want to explore it, in the hope to maybe find a new place to live.

ABOUT US
We are funny, amicable, nice, interested, chilled, enthusiastic, sporty, friendly, creative, cosmopolitan people who like snowboarding, yoga, surfing, beach volleyball and rock climbing. We also enjoy to cook, eat, drink, dance and a good laugh. We are interested in movies, books, music and especially people. Franka plays the guitar, India likes to sing and dance, and Steffen is a good music listener ;-) We love being outdoors and hike a lot. And we like to meet many interesting people!

PHILOSOPHY
Don't wait too long, as life could be over before you fulfill your dreams!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
While traveling we always tried to bring as much love, life and happiness in our host's homes as possible. When we temporarily settled in Goerlitz, Germany, to have our daughter, we enjoyed offering a couch for others. Now that we are on the road again, we hope to find new friends, who would also accept a little family. In Australia we were not able to offer couchsurfing, as we are house sitting ourselves.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
With all our surfs in Canada, U.S., Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Kenya, South Africa, Dubai, and England we only had amazing experiences.
While being in Germany we were hosting and it was amazing to bring the world on our own couch. Thanks, CS!

Interests

hiking, climbing, snowboarding, music and nature

  • photography
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • camping
  • snowboarding
  • rock climbing
  • videography

Music, Movies, and Books

any kind of music but my favourites are f.e. Ben Harper, Ben Howard, Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon, John Lennon.
books by Hermann Hesse and Terry Pratchett; Shantaram; The Book Thief; Momo; The Kite Runner; Hunger games; Shadow of the wind...
I love movies... f.e. Hable con ella, Old Boy, Dancer in the dark
Steffen´s favourites would be Fight Club, The Shawshank Redemption, Memento, The Godfather I-III, Pulp Fiction, The Dark Knight, Leon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Star Wars: Episode IV-VI (okay, the Ewoks sucked), Casablanca, The Matrix (only part one), The Lord of the Rings I-III, Goodfellas, City og God, Indiana Jones I-III, The Usual Suspects, Life of Brian, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Moon

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We will tell you about this on the couch ;-)

Teach, Learn, Share

There is much to learn left.
We can teach Yoga, German, English or Spanish. We can give warm meals, interesting conversations, reiki, swedish massage, and cleaning service. We are good with computers, social media marketing as well as photography and video editing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Have a yoga session with Franka, get a great picture of you from a professional photographer, who is also an amazing cook, and enjoy the big smile and blue eyes of our little daughter.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Botswana, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Fiji, France, Greece, Grenada, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Rwanda, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, India, Spain

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