CURRENT MISSION

Engage the world!

ABOUT ME

I'm a 23-year old student from Germany. Before I moved there, I lived in Ireland for a year and before that in Switzerland. I am both, Swiss and German.

At the moment, I'm enjoying my year abroad in Pennsylvania where I study at a small liberal Arts College until May 2010.

I'd say I'm outgoing, open-minded, good-humoured, very sociable and positive. I try to make the best out of every situation because I think the meaning of life is living. So that's what I'm doing.

Besides travelling, I love music and literature. I study creative writing, cultural studies and German.

PHILOSOPHY

A ship in a harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.

Don't let them cut your wings before your learn to fly.

Good friends don't let you do stupid things... alone.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As much as I can.
I like that thanks to Couchsurfung I'm no ordinary tourists anymore. I love this new way of traveling. It connects people all around the globe which is a great thing. I've met a lot of interesting and great people already and I'm looking forward to meeting more.

I got many of my friends into couchsurfing and last semester I took an essay writing class and wrote a 20 page paper about my own couchsurfing experiences, the idea itself and about Daniel Hopkins, a guy from Osnabrück, Germany, who couchsurfed around the world in 80 days.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed in Sweden and Ireland.
Hosted people from Greece, the US and Germany.

Interests

I love poetry slam, photography, art, Banksy!, language coffee and ice-cream, the ocean, sheep, every kind of nonsense, writing, running through sprinklers, laughing, Ireland, lashing rain (sometimes), kayaking, inline-skating, Frisbee, airports, cherries, sushi, swiss chocolate and loads more...

• arts
• writing
• literature
• poetry
• photography
• chocolate
• coffee
• running
• flying
• traveling
• music
• kayaking
• cultural studies

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Seeed, SixNationState, Franz Ferdinand, I'm from Barcelona, MGMT, Johnossi, The Fratellis Maximo Park, The Beatles, Jens Lekman, The Cranberries, Kate Nash, Morrissey, The Smith, Kimya Dawson, Kings Of Convenience, Laura Marling, The New Pornographers, Noah and the Whale, Peter Doherty, Placebo, Razorlight, Kings of Leon, Lykke Li Mando Diao, RHCP, R.Williams, Gorgol Bordello, The Gossip, The Strokes, Hot Chip, No Doubt, Friska Viljor, The Wombats, Deichkind, Tori Amos, Adam Green, Animal Collective, Architecture In Helsinki, Beirut, Shout out Louds, Bell X1, Belle & Sebastian, Hello Saferide, Bonaparte, Cats on Fire, Cocoon, The Clash, David Bowie, The Decemberists, Fettes Brot, The Shins, Sinéad O'Connor, La Grande Sophie, Snow Patrol, Ska-P, The Sounds, Spoon, Stars, Tocotronic, Two Door Cinema Club, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, Wolf Parade, Yelle, Irish Folk...

Books:
"Untill I find you" (John Irving), "The Book of Lost Things" (John Connoly) "Long Way Down" (Nick Hornby), everything written by Walter Moers, "Fool on the Hill" (Matt Ruff), Petterson and Findus and books by Astrid Lingren - for now and forever! ;)

Movies:
Death at a funeral, The wind that shakes the barly, The boat that rocked, Almost Famous, Kill Bill, Pirates of the Caribbean (just the first one, the rest is crap...), Life As a House, Wer früher stirbt,ist länger tot, Das Leben der Anderen, Cruel Intensions, The Lion King, Brokeback Mountain, Edward Scissorhands, The Others ...
...aaaand Mounty Pythons, LITTLE BRITAIN and Father Ted! :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I lied down in the grass at the cliffs of moher (ireland) with my head over the edge and watched down 200m in the ocean, I drank milk out of sheep and went down a (small) waterfall in a kajak and held a 3,5 year old baby alligator called Hollywood.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, United States