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Overview

  • 12 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, German; learning Russian, Spanish
  • 31, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Student
  • University of Vienna // SciencesPo Paris
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Getting to know Paris.

ABOUT ME

Open-minded, language-addicted, hyphen-loving Austrian.

PHILOSOPHY

German:

Und nichts ist beliebig,
und nichts ist egal,
atme ein, atme aus,
Du hast immer die Wahl.

Supposed-to-be-English:

And nothing's indifferent,
And nothing's all the same,
Breathe in, Breathe out,
you've got always the choice!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Unfortunately, I cannot host anybody at the moment which is why I am limited to surfing.
Yet, I have always been hosting friends and friends of friends and friends of friends of friends from around the world, so I am familiar with the spirit. =)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far, I only had great Couchsurfing experiences. Greetings to Bratislava, Brussels and Budapest, to Liverpool and Lyon! :)

Interests

Languages, Foreign Cultures and Countries, Politics, Literature, Sports, ...

  • literature
  • politics
  • traveling
  • surfing
  • sports
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, Justice, Passion Pit, Patrick Wolf, Phoenix, Ratatat, The Killers, The Strokes, White Lies, Woodkid and A LOT more

Arthur Schnitzler and Stefan Zweig and A LOT more

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Working in a school for mentally disabled children.

Going through the visa PLUS registration process in Ukraine.

Attending Rosh Hashanah celebrations in Uman, Ukraine.

Visiting 4 1/2 European capitals in 12 days. Although I normally prefer taking my time to explore cities it was an intense and interesting experience to travel that much in such a short period of time.

Teach, Learn, Share

German & its literature
Basic English
Cyrillic alphabet
Complaining about basically everything the Viennese way

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, France, Poland, Ukraine

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