CURRENT MISSION

to finish my PhD and to not die trying!

ABOUT ME

After 3 years of living in Germany and one big moving event, I am now at the point, where it's somehow not so easy anymore to meet nice interesting people just for the sake of meeting nice interesting people! So I'm giving it a try here :-)

There's nothing more egocentric than making a description about yourself (besides one for a job application!), so what about this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcXI2BIUOQ

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let live!

Life is short and (most probably) senseless, so I try my best to make the most of it!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The first time I heard from CS was from a friend that regularly hosts and visits other CSers, I found the idea extremely cool and relaxed.

The second time was during a visit in Colombia, where I was invited to a CS meeting and had a big surprise as to how many people use this tool to travel around the world.

The next step was of course to try it myself!

Interests

Can procrastination be an interest?
Can partying be an interest?

Since I came to Germany, I went from being (or believing to be) totally apolitical to start reading three to four newspapers daily, mostly news from Colombia but also Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung. Politics turned out to be so entertaining, especially in Colombia, it's better than any soap-opera. In that sense, I'm pretty liberal, so I enjoy discussing about the still disappointing situation of women or why the church should not decide when we should go shopping, etc.

• partying
• shopping
• politics
• news
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• opera
• biology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: bossa nova, MPB, chanson française, Nina Simone, Françoise Hardy, Hildegard Knef, Miriam Makeba. And from Latin America: Piero, Astor Piazzola, Totó la Momposina, música de plancha. I am a big fan of bohemian artists from the 70s and before... born in the wrong century

Movies: Four Minutes; Dogville; Dancer in the Dark; Schultze gets the blues; Kirschblüten Hanami; Kill Bill; Thelma and Louise; A little princess; Lola rennt; Contact; Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown; La flor de tu secreto; Almodóvar!!

Books: big Isabel Allende fan!; La Casa de los Espíritus; Paula; Hermann Hesse, Unterm Rad; The Cider House Rules, John Irving

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Everyday comes with lots of amazing things that... no, no, wait, that's not true... we all know many days simply suck big time!

but once, on a train from Paris, someone actually tried to buy ME. No, not my jacket or my shoes, ME! it was very very scary and since I thought such things didn't really happen outside of TV, I was pretty amazed ;-)

Teach, Learn, Share

Moi, j'aimerais pratiquer mon français!

I am a biologist, so in anything related to that I might be of some help.

And, I know quite a few stories about my crazy country, just in case you're interested ;-)