Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
@katharina-sommer-1
Member since 2015
Please read the description (especially of my roomsituation) before requesting me :-) I am a joyful person who loves to travel and to meet inspiring people on the way. It's the people you meet who make you love one country.
Interested in Adventure Sports
Interested in Education
Fluent in German
Learning Hebrew (modern)
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
to get inspired by interesting people all over the world, to know their amazing stories, to discover nice places with local people or make people discover my beautiful city. I also was hosted by so many nice people without using the website, and I want to give back the good experiences to other travellers and to spread the love and the acceptance I experienced while travelling.
Music, Movies, and Books
■Music: aaaaall kinds of good music (some of my favorite bands: The Beatles, Faber, Avishai Cohen, Ratatat, Hindi Zahra, Yael Naïm, Tracy Chapman, Alt-J, Chinese Man, Guts, Manu Chao, Debout sur le zinc, La rue Kétanou, the angelcy, Habanot Nechama, Fatoumata Diawara, Tinush, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Paco de Lucia) ■Litterature: I like a lot of authors, but my favorite are Hermann Hesse, Eric-Emmanuel Schmidt, Delphine de Vigan, Stefan Zweig, Milan Kundera, Tschingis Aitmatow, Harry Mulisch, David Grossmann ■Movies: The Wave, Goodbye Lenin, Blue is the warmest colour, Welcome, The Lives of Others, Warchild, Nell, Frantz, The Kite Runner, The Pianist, Happy as Lazzarro
One Amazing Thing I've Done
I went up to a vulcano and watched the explosions in the sunset from really near - breathtaking experience. I travelled making streetmusic with a friend. Creating emotions through music - such as nostalgia or joy or even just create a little smile - are such valuable things. I cancelled my Erasmus-year in the last second and decided to stay in Freiburg. Once you are here, this city is just impossible to leave ! Once dumbsterdiving in Norway we found the container fuuuull of flowers. We took them all and went on a mission putting flowers in the mailboxes of the houses to spread some joy and love :-)
What I Can Share With Hosts
I am studying to be a teacher, so if you want to learn German or French - me voilà :-) I really love to cook nice vegetarian / vegan food, also, and we can talk about everything or nothing, seriously or joking.
My Interests
music ! singing, playing the guitar/piano travelling, camping, hiking, nature, outdoor activities, campfire, landart dumpster diving Development and pedagogical psychology, education: “children must be taught how to think, not what to think.“ Forest pedagogy, international youth exchange programs inline skating, skiing, snowboarding, ice skating theatre Linguistics! I am really interested in languages, i love to compare different language systems and to learn about the fonctions of language and its power.