I come from South Tyrol (Italy) and worked at a startup in Zurich for almost two years. In June 2022 I lost my job and decided to fulfill my dream and travel east by land! :)

I intend to listen to, be guided by and learn from life. Aside from that, I love authentically connecting to people, I practice meditation and yoga, run, and love to learn stuff (currently learning to play the guitar).

More stuff about my life:
- I studied engineering in Zurich, with semesters abroad in the US and China
- After my studies I lived and worked in Hong Kong and Shenzhen (the silicon valley of hardware)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

The obvious stuff, feel free to skip:
I love to travel, meet people and get to know about a place by people which live there. The thing about traveling I love most is to meet people, talk with them and learn from them about their country and beliefs. Couchsurfing is ideal, because I get to know people that live in the country I am traveling in, and love to meet new people.

Interests

I am interested in meditation and I love many sports. At the moment, my main activities are meditation, yoga, running and playing the guitar. If I get the chance, I like climbing, sailing, biking, hiking.
Also, I love good food. Food has been my motivation for traveling through Mexico and even for moving to China and learning Chinese.
Ah, and I am also available for a chess game :)

• yoga
• running
• meditation
• guitar
• hiking
• sailing
• physics
• food
• chinese
• spirituality
• learning
• how things work

Music, Movies, and Books

I love good music in general :)
Currently learning to play the guitar and always happy to learn/play together!

Books that teach me something: Siddhartha, meditation books (Awakening through Love, The Mind Illuminated, The Culture Map, Thinking Fast and Slow, The intelligent Investor, biographies of interesting people (e.g. Richard Feynman), running books, sailing books...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

During dinner with a group of Chinese-speaking friends deciding to spend the autumn 2016 in China and to learn Chinese.
Addition (6 years later, 2022):
This actually worked out and heavily influenced the course of my life. It also introduced meditation and later yoga into my life, lead to innumerable precious moments with lovely humans and taught me soooo much.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Chinese and the other languages I speak, Meditation, Yoga, Math/Physics/Science, anything I know something about, guitar (the very basics I already learned)

Learn: Anything you love/care about. In particular I’m keen learning about the places I visit.

Share: Bi-directionally share life lessons & wisdom

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am happy to teach/guide a yoga and/or meditation session.
Also, I could show some super cool stuff about how Chinese characters work.
Or I could play/practice guitar :)
Also super happy to help out with anything else if I can!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bahamas, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Netherlands, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Switzerland, United States