CURRENT MISSION

travelling around the globe - getting in touch with different kinds of people and cultures

ABOUT ME

25 years of age
love travelling
come meet me in order to find out more

PHILOSOPHY

like what you do, do what you like

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

currently in the middle of setting up a new home base in vienna - surfers will be welcome soon

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

my first couch surfing experience happend when i wasn't even registered on cs. a couple of years ago, when I spent some months abroad in mexico in order to learn spanish I got invited to a couchsurfing party. apart from other travellers, i met numerous friendly and hospitable locals. this was a turning point for my stay in mexico: from that day on I spent the whole time with the people I met at the party, got to know mexico for real and as a side effect learned spanish better than I would have in any language school

Interests

while most people use to list their hobbies here, I wanna start with something different:
i'd say my deepest interest is socializing. a wise men once told me that one can learn something from any person on this planet, one just has to be open-minded.

"everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
- albert einstein

apart from that, I'm interested in almost everything that has to do with sports: snowboarding, skiing, tennis, soccer, diving,... you name it :)
another huge interest of mine is poker. i play online quite successfully and even managed to qualify for the one or other live event

• fish
• partying
• traveling
• socializing
• poker
• fishing
• surfing
• scuba diving
• bungee jumping
• skiing
• snowboarding
• sports
• soccer
• tennis

Music, Movies, and Books

just to get an impression

movies: e.g. L.A. Crash, Little Miss Sunshine, Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas,...

music: I'm into electronic music (e.g. digitalism, bookashade), electro swing (parov stelar) and some other stuff (e.g. james yuill, feist, the xx, beatles...)

books: e.g. Henning Mankell - Comédia Infantil, Dürenmatt - Die Physiker, ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Working as an HIV/AIDS-consultant in Kenia
Bungee Jumping at Victoria Falls
Be allowed to steer a small aircraft when turning eighteen

Teach, Learn, Share

One experience I'd like to share is the time i spent in Kenia in the summer of 2010. During summer break I went to Makindu in order to work there as a HIV/Aids consultant. Not only getting in touch with, but rather living under one roof with people who's world is entirely different from what I was used to in Europe made me realize what really matters in life. Overall, despite of malnutrition, spreading diseases and poverty, people were more welcoming anf friendly and seemed to be happier than most people I met in "developed" countries!