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Overview

  • 29 references 23 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German, Spanish
  • 31, Female
  • Member since 2017
  • Profesorin
  • Licenciatura
  • From Austria
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About Me

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Hey lovely Couchsurfing-Community!
I'm an open-minded and easy-going person who likes to share activities and experiences. I studied (Psychology, Philosophy, Spanish and Pedagogic), worked (as a reformpedagogical teacher in primary school) and lived in beautiful Vienna. Since 2022 I'm living and working in Madrid, enjoying my free time exploring and enjoying Spain and spanish culture to the fullest.

Whenever there is time I like to pack my things and get to know new places and people or visit the ones I already got to know.

My interests basically never stop... I'm very curious about life in general.
Some things I love in no specific order: to live in a sustainable way, sleeping outdoors, cook and eat
healthy food, practice yoga, enjoy good music, exchange offshoots from my plants, eating chocolate,
visit flea markets, permaculture, drinking coffee while reading a book, create an inclusive society, long-distance hiking,
Vipassana, work with kids and young adults, active listening and non-violent communication, festivals and
concerts, activism, bus and train travel, watching the sky, interaction with human beings,...

Little travel diary from the last couple of years...

| 2017 |

Abril: Rivas | Nicaragua
Mayo: Guadalajara | México
Junio: mxdf, Puebla | México
Julio: Chiapas | Yucatán | México
Augusto: Oaxaca | México; Guatemala
Septiembre: Nicaragua | Costa Rica

Octubre: Viena | Austria
Noviembre: Viena | Austria
Deciembre: Viena | Austria

| 2018 |

Enero: Puebla | México
Febrero: Chiapas | México

Marzo-julio: Viena | Austria

Agosto: Islas Canarias | España
Septiembre: Islas Canarias | España

| 2019 + 2020 |

I was writting my tesis and finishing my studies .

| 2020 + 2021 + 2022 |

A lot of bus and tren travels through France, Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia.

| 11. 2022 - 06. 2023 | SPAIN

Exploring Spain in all direcitions: hitchhiking to the North, walking along the Camino de Santiago, visiting circus friends in the South, furgoneta tour in Canary Islands and along Costa Brava, crashing festivals and concerts in Catalunya,

| July - September 2023 | AUSTRIA - ITALY - FRANCE - SPAIN

Three months of flat hopping and Couchsurfing in Vienna before travelling back by tren, bus and blablacar to Madrid.

October 2023 bustravel to Lisboa, Portugal
November 2023 discovering Mallorca, Spain

Wuhuuui: Aquí estoy!

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I had so many beautiful experiences through Couchsurfing along my way in Latin America, Canary Islands, Italy, France,... and other travels. Every single person I've got to know was an absolute enrichment. I'm always trying to share this positive travel vibe with everybody who crosses my way.

Interests

  • concerts
  • festivals
  • cooking
  • breakfast
  • organic food
  • camping
  • volleyball
  • volunteering
  • food
  • travelling
  • cinema
  • beach
  • adventures
  • sleeping
  • different cultures
  • meeting new people
  • organic gardening
  • campfires
  • meeting friends
  • roadtrips
  • dark chocolate
  • humour
  • hammocking
  • open mind
  • drinking beer
  • watching sunsets
  • handmade stuff

Music, Movies, and Books

Reggae&Dancehall, Indie, Indie-Rock, Electro Swing, sing&songwriter stuff, austrian newcomer Bands, Jazz, Funk
Not into commercial music except when I'm drunk (;

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

× doing volunteering in Nicaragua and Guatemala with the kindest kids I have ever met
× couchsurfed alone during six months from Costa Rica to Mexico or the other way round
× visiting a small festival in the middle of nowhere at Canary Islands (Veneguera!!)
× lived in a shared flat with locals in Lapa, the heart of Rio de Janeiro, during brasilian Carneval (craaazy!)
× quitting my job and flat in Austria and moved to Spain
× slept in a hammock next to the sea for a week on an Croatian monastery Island
× meditated and lived in silence without speaking to nobody for 10 days in Slovenia
× living and working in Vienna during the summer months without having any flat (twice). Lived and shared more than 15 different apartments.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Mexico, Spain

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