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Overview

  • 3 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Teacher for English, music and art - Musician
  • Fashion Design, Teacher
  • From Karlsruhe, Mannheim
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Sharing a smile and trying to trick my "grown up" mind into feeling like a kid by living the moment not thinking too much...

ABOUT ME

I just finished studies (2016) and started working in Hamburg (Germany) as a teacher for age 10-16. My subjects are English, Music and Art.

- Pescetarian
- likes to live healthy and do sports but also have fun
- open minded
- likes laughing
- likes to share a smile
- like to philosophize, to talk and think about how and why and how else
- I am also a musician (mostly a singer, but I also play guitar, at the moment I'm practicing guitar improvisation)
- likes to paint (see pictures)
- likes to work with wood (see pictures)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Although I have been registered for many years I actually never tried out couchsurfing. So I'm very new to this community...first of all I'm searching for a place to stay during my trip to Barcelona 2016.

Interests

I'm totally into music.
Music gives me a lot, but I also give it back. E.g. by being on stage when performing and singing, playing guitar or piano, by being in front of the stage, by producing....

But I'm also into drawing, painting, analogue photography, design, arts and other creative things.

When I'm not on the stage or in the studio I like being in the sun, having good conversations ( in which I probably make you laugh).

I'm open minded and like meeting new people, sharing my wisdom - but also soaking other wisdom.

I am also interested in meditation, yoga and staying healthy and active

  • arts
  • singing
  • design
  • photography
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • painting
  • drawing
  • music
  • guitar
  • piano
  • sports
  • teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: On the road - Jack Kerouac, Siddhartha - Herman Hesse, Alchemist - Paulo Coelo

Movies: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Garden State; 500 days of summer; Before midnight, one day ..

Music: among other good music, I like listening to
- Bob Dylan
- Tallest Man on Earth
- Kings of Convenience
- Devendra Banhart
- Alice Phoebe Lou
- Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros
- Pink Floyd
- Air
- Tame Impala
- Foxygen
- Beach House
- Dan Auerbach
- Queen
- Simon & Garfunkel
- The Strokes
- Justice
- Paco de Lucia
- Eric Clapton
- John Lennon
- Nick Drake
- The Rolling Stones
- Pantha du Prince
and many more... :)

Enclosed you will find a list of things I listened to when I registered in 2010. My music taste has hardly changed.

Indie (like The Kooks, The Strokes; Phoenix, Hockey, Whitest Boy Alive...)
Indietronic/Electronic (like Justice, Daft Punk, Röyksopp, Passion Pit, Empire of the sun, Digitalism, Bloody Beetroots, Does it offend you yeah!...);
60s, 70s, (Aerosmith, Queen, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Beach Boys, The Turtles, The Byrds, Simon & Garfunkel)
Funk&Soul (like Jamiroquai, Prince, Amy Winehouse....)
Chillout (like Air, ZERO7, The Postal Service.....not to forget The Shins, Coldplay)
there is much good music out there - don't miss it! Wanna share?

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sometimes moments can be better than you've ever dreamed of.

Teach, Learn, Share

I've been to Russia, Japan, America, Spain, Italy, France, ... but that's all unfortunately long ago. The last years I travelled to Corse (France isle) by car. That was very ncie

What I Can Share with Hosts

good conversations, good music taste, singing, playing guitar, cooking...

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