Herro! I'm Helen, 34, and always thought I had a problem with Germany, my home country. Then I started travelling and had to realise how much I love and miss sausages and potatoes, freedom, the seasons, provoking grumpy old people, free education, cats acting like humans, humans acting like cats, equal rights, chocolate, my friends and family, cheap booze and techno parties. After all, Berlin is the best city in the world.

This is my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/not.just.a.pretty.place/

PHILOSOPHY: Live and let live.
I'm not interested in amassing money or riches - I want to experience and to learn as much as possible.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm always keen on meeting people that are in love with politics / economics, Berghain-ish techno, travelling... or whatever makes your world go round. I might show you around in some districts off the tourist track - if you like and I've got the time. Have a look at my little list of sights if our schedules don't match: http://goo.gl/wQ1Mfa

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've slept on floors all over the world. It started with the floors of friends of friends of friends - but wound up as official Couchsurfing.
I hosted: 1. Jeremy (Nov 2011), 2. Jackie (Jan 2012), 3. Waldir (Jun 2012), 4. Paulina (Nov 2013), 5. Airnel (Dec 2013), 6. Martin (Jan 2014), 7. Karol (Feb 2014), 8. Kostja and Igor (Feb 2014), 9. Ebène and Rob (Jul 2014), 10. Pâmela and Victor (Jul 2015), 11. Adam (Jun 2016), 12. Will (Jul 2016), 13. Iosi (Sep 2017), 14. Paulo (Oct 2017), 15. Rafa (Jun 2018), 16. Marta and Diana (Sep 2018), 17. Julia and Artem (Feb 2019), 18. Daniel (Mar 2019), 19. Yaniv (Dec 2019), 20. Melissa (Jul 2020), 21. Adrian (Jul 2020), 22. Deepayan and Prithvi (Aug 2021), 23. Patrick (Jan 2022), 24. Wren (Jan 2023, Jan 2024), 25. Kousalya (Feb 2023)

Interests

I’m extremely curious and potentially interested in everything. My majors are political economy, hip hop, intellectual gangsters, determined women like Nancy Wake or Hester Stanhope, munchies, architecture, street art, cats and everything green. Some people consider me a nerd, no idea why: http://goo.gl/9OQn9w

• cats
• architecture
• politics
• history
• travel
• hip hop
• reading novels
• political economy

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Frisch, Dovlatov, Kracht, Hemingway, Hugo, Mann (I prefer Heinrich over Thomas), Schneider, Huxley, Camus, Seghers.

Movies: I'm in love witk Kim Bodnia. Really. Pusher. Old Men in New Cars. Snatch. The Green Butchers. Human Traffic. Besides, I adore documentaries, especially about stuff nobody ever heard about like Samoa's fa'afafine or shuar.

Series: Californication, Breaking Bad, The Wire, 30 Rock, Narcos, Shameless UK, Dexter, Downton Abbey, Suits, Modern Family, Sopranos, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development, Sherlock, The Man in the High Castle, Black Mirror, Trailer Park Boys.
German series: Deutschland 83, Weissensee, 4 Blocks, Babylon Berlin.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I met Csaba who was new to Couchsurfing in Budapest to have fun, introduce him to hitch-hiking and write him a first reference. One month later, he had permanently left Budapest to hitch-hike to Australia. You go, boy!

Teach, Learn, Share

⋆ German - introduction to an unpronounceable mess.
⋆ why capitalism sucks from an economic point of view.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

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