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Overview

  • 23 references 21 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2005
  • social worker, occupational therapist
  • school, family, friends, my daughter, life!
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

part-time student, part-time worker, full-time mother, ...

ABOUT ME
We are a music-loving, easygoing, down-to-earth, interested family of five. (The girls are 19, 5 and 1).
In my sparetime I love going to concerts, travelling, talking, meeting new people and get to know them, I am interested in languages, other cultures, food, etc.

PHILOSOPHY

"Don't believe everything that you breathe!" (Beck)
"Don't try to be an apple if you are a banana, you will always be a second rate apple!"
"Enjoy your worries, you may never have them again!" (The Books)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love to host and love to be hosted!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted:

November 2005: Karen Monrad and Sara from Copenhagen
February 2006: Karin Etter from Switzerland
August 2007: Pierre-Luc Dubois from Quebec
September 2009: David Berger from Upper Austria
November 2010: Michael Reisecker from Upper Austria
April 2011: Daniel Berger and Georg K. from Upper Austria/Salzburg
December 2011: Amie Thao from Seattle, Washington, USA
January 2013: Hannah Sheets and Brian Smith, Oregon, USA

I surfed:

May 2007; June 2007; May 2009: Niki in Vienna, AUT
August 2007: Peter S. in Hamburg, GER
August 2007: Sara Kramer in Copenhagen, Denmark
July 2008: Fabrizio Pizzioli in Triest, ITA
September 2008: Matija Milkovič-Biloslav in Ljubljana, SLO
February 2009: Mat Jenner in London, UK
May 2009: Georg Scherlin in Vienna, AUT
May 2009: Stefan Theissbacher in Vienna, AUT
June 2009: Martina Siebenhandl in Vienna, AUT
January 2010: Daniel Ambros in Munich, GER
August 2010: Dan and Carl in Birmingham, UK
October 2010: Michael Reisecker in Vienna, AUT
January 2011: Kristian Sorge in New York, USA
July 2012: Anne-Sophie and Martin Pedersen in Billund, Denmark
August 2012: Anna-Maria Blixt in Gothenburg, Sweden
August 2012: Christian Höck in Stockholm, Sweden
August 2012: Linus Björk in Linköping, Sweden
September 2016: Ingo Salmutter in Eisenstadt, Austria

Interests

I love spending time with my family and in our garden.

  • arts
  • books
  • photography
  • concerts
  • dining
  • movies
  • traveling
  • juggling
  • music
  • cycling
  • skiing
  • snowboarding
  • rock climbing
  • soccer
  • volleyball
  • art history
  • history
  • languages
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

music: my favourites at the moment are Young Fathers, Rufus Wainwright, Andrew Bird, ...

books: Milan Kundera, Charles Bukowski, Nick Hornby, John Irving, Wolf Haas, Hermann Hesse, Sven Regener, Jonathan Safran Foer, ...

movies: sad and dramatic ones. some of my favourite movies are: paris, texas (wim wenders!), little miss sunshine, requiem for a dream, big fish, fear and loathing in las vegas, lovesong for bobby long, gegen die wand, el topo!!!, ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I gave birth to three kids!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you the basics of juggling
I am good in wasting time
I did not learn it, but I love cutting hair (even my own...) and sometimes there are even good results...

I would love to learn many languages (especially slovenian and spanish...)

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Nicaragua, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria

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