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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, French, German, Spanish; learning Italian
  • 70, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • No occupation listed
  • Geographer, univ.deg.
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 55% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

understanding the human being /learning a totally new profession

ABOUT ME

I'm openminded, interested in the world, the human being, respecting other cultures, the other individuum without giving me up

PHILOSOPHY

observing and trying to understand the ecological & social transition, myself being part within - trying to minimize my ecological footprint.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Both, hosting & surfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none yet

Interests

cultural exchange, getting to know ohter lifestyles;
swimming, trekking & camping in the mountains, biking, skiing; all kind of observations in the nature: birds, wildlife, flowers/botany, meteorology, geology.
Architecture, cultural history, photography, graphic art.
Myself playing baroque oboe.

  • wildlife
  • birds
  • arts
  • architecture
  • photography
  • flowers
  • traveling
  • cycling
  • camping
  • skiing
  • swimming
  • geology
  • history
  • languages
  • ornithology
  • mountains
  • climatology

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: impressed by Rafik SHAMI, Dalai Lama, Dürrenmatt, a.o.
Music: baroque, jazz, raggae

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

...visited an active volcano in Chile

Teach, Learn, Share

teaching/helping with: languages, playing the flute & the oboe;
all kind of sciences (field-ornithology, botany, geology of the Alps, visualization of climate change. Healthcare…)
Learn: philosophy
share: methods of learning (acquisition of knowledge)

What I Can Share with Hosts

travelling.
see above: Interests

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Chile, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Peru, United Kingdom

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