People say about me that I'm friendly, multilingual, insightful, trusty and hospitable. I love other countries and nations and grew up voyaging. Now I am a CS Country Ambassador of Germany. - Feel free to contact me at any time with your questions, ideas and requests. We will get on for sure. And call me Viktor to procure your attention ... ;-)

More about my CS story here: https://blog.couchsurfing.com/10-questions-with-a-cs-ambassador-viktor/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Love it and must have done something right. - In 2018 I got nominated to become a Country Ambassador for Germany after being a City Ambassador for 7 years and contributing to numerous international CS projects and organizing far over 100 CS events! Note: 🔉 If you would like to join the Ambassador Program, let me know and I'll be glad to check on it.

So why all this? Here you can get an idea of me: https://blog.couchsurfing.com/cs-ambassador-viktor-receives-peace-prize-from-chemnitz-germany/

I am active on CS since many years. Some of the various stuff I did/do was:
• contributing to CS Wiki, creating logos for CS, welcoming newbies
• group moderation, e.g. in Chemnitz* (FRG) and Minsk (BY)
• organizing CS events/crashes, working with CSHQ team
• helping CS and being a contact person for consulting
• surfing, moderating, hosting, guiding tours 4CSers
• sharing lots of Photos/Favorites on my profile
• developing the CS Ambassador program
• globally mentoring new CS Ambs
• loving this community ♡

Interests

Actually it's possible to get me into almost everything. New people and experiences fascinate me. For it I have visited over 50 countries, been to almost 40 US states and hitch-hiked almost 30.000 km. If you like to know more about my adventures just ask ...

• culture
• photography
• music
• hitchhiking
• food
• travelling
• nature
• couchsurfing
• exploring
• meeting new people
• video editing

Music, Movies, and Books

I love movies (independent) and books about other countries.
I want to understand other peoples thinking and cultures. :-)

Some movies I like to watch:
• Norman Jewison's "The Hurricane" (Denzel Washington)
• Ismaël Ferrouki's "Le Grand Voyage" (Nicolas Cazalé)
• Radu Mihailenau's "Train de Vie" (Lionel Abelanski)
+ all kinds of Bud Spencer & Terrence Hill movies :-p

Some books I like to read:
• Rüdiger Nehberg "Das Survival-Handbuch" (Malik)
• Birgit Rupprecht-Stroll "Auslands-Knigge" (GU)
+ the Kultur-Schock series (Reise Know-How Rump)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Not easy to tell as I remember plenty of unique wonderful moments like scuba diving in the Red Sea, flying over the Alps, hitchhiking to Belarus at -20 °C, driving a 35 tons truck in the US, climbing an ancient part of the Chinese wall from Ming Dynasty, lecturing to far over hundred students in Egypt, dealing with major CEO's and politicians at DB tower in Berlin, campaigning for city councilor in Chemnitz, volunteering in international life-saving transports, seeing more countries and states than I can count, making a great many priceless of friends overall, getting to know my true love Yue – all what makes my life ... and I highly appreciate everything!

Teach, Learn, Share

One of the articles where I was interviewed about CS:
https://issuu.com/stadtstreicherchemnitz/docs/streicher_04_2010_bk (see pp 12-15)

Especially CS lovers of music might know about my forefather:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Fährmann (1860-1940)

He is why my complete first name is Hans Viktor Alexis.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Tons of Couchsurfing moments, the spirit of this awesome community, kindness, attention and friendship! – To get an impression of this world take a look into my CS photo album because images can tell more than words!

https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/hva/photos (over 400 photos of what Couchsurfing is - scroll all down for a 'lil CS tour!)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belarus, China, Germany, Russian Federation, United States

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