CURRENT MISSION

Discover Brasil and its people !!! (January - March 2012)

ABOUT ME

I like to learn more about the geography and the people of the country I am travelling around. In Germany I make my living with selling books (in the summertime), in the wintertime I have enough time to make extended travels. I live in a rural area called Sauerland and I am also researching the emigrants from this area, who mostly left towards the USA in the 19th century. On my current trip to Brasil, I am most interested to meet some German-stock Brasilians in the South, and to learn about the history of their settlements!

PHILOSOPHY

Here and now! It sounds so simple, yet it ain´t easy for a western civilized academic mind full of ideas...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am surfing in Brasil at the moment...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I learned about CouchSurfing while travelling in India. I thought it is a wonderful idea to get people connected all around the globe.

Interests

History, Archeology, Literature, Collecting things (like books, photos, postcards, historic letters, etc.), dicovering new parts of this planet

• books
• literature
• traveling
• drums
• surfing
• archeology
• geography
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

"Into the wild" was a film that caught me last
Rare Earth is a band, I like very much (groovy rock, not too complicated)
"Sidartha" from Hermann Hesse is one of those cool books

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

swam with a free dolphin in Nuweiba, Egypt
walked and slept in the desert for several days all by myself in Marokko
saw the pyramids near Kairo
risked my life canyoning all alone in Marokko

Teach, Learn, Share

I can drum and will teach you some grooves on one of my drums (Djembe, Tarbuka, Handdrum). I can tell you something about Roman and German History, and especially about the emigration from rural Germany to the US in the 19th Century. I am interested in antique philosophy. I like to learn languages.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Egypt, France, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States