CURRENT MISSION

Intensifying the inner peace I gained on my travels, trying to pass it on to other people (if CS asks for a mission I take the liberty to sound a bit lofty :P ) Actually there is no "one mission" Life gives us different tasks all the time or not? :)
update 5 years later: still the same + encourage people to be concsious of their natural and social environment

ABOUT ME

In a nutshell: I love sports, being in nature, communicating, writing, reading, camping, hiking, swimming (especially in cold lakes), appreciating - and whatever I do: I like it more if I can do it in the sun (no matter how many degrees)
I´m told to be ambitious, open-minded, complicated and straightforward

Long version:
When I started with Couchsurfing I wrote something about happiness at this point. Now I´m not sure wheater this term represents always what I aim at. But today - and then as well - I enjoy the simple nature and it's fascinating peace and variety. I like company, I love exchanging and sharing all kind of stuff, I love spreading love :P and stilll curiosity is in my nature and I always try to find out the reason for everything.
After my A-levels I took a year of (volunteering year) and worked with mentally ill people, but I always planned to travel before I start at university and so I made my way to New Zealand.
The country and the people enchanted me more than I would have ever expected and after enjoying many unbelievable experiences I continued another 6 months of traveling (+working) in Australia. Overseas I fell in love with backpacking, hiking and camping so I continued this form of being in nature when I came back to Europe. Apparently I had to travel to travel the other end of the world to appreciate our mountains here but now I do so and I enjoy hardly anything as much as being with my tent away from civilization.
Apart from travelling I study psychology in the amazing city Freiburg in Germany and I´m looking forwad to be done with it by summer 2019.
And apart from studying I´m dealing with different ideas around the huge topic sustainibility. I don´t want to bother you with details here :P

PHILOSOPHY

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters! (it´s attributed to Epictetus)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm afraid I started Couchsurfing not until I went to New Zealand. When I arrived in this amazing country I had to experience that you meet more Germans there than in Germany- at least in the hostels. As I wanted essentially experience ANOTHER culture than the German one I wrote my first request immediately after my arrival. So for I always had a great time when I stayed with other people I didn´t know before. It´s an amazing opportunity to travel aside the touristic trip (for surfers), to enjoy a bit of the travel spirit though being caught in every-day-life (for hosts) and to exchange ideas, support and experiences (for both!). I love it. As I fell in love with camping I hardly use the webside these days. But I´ll offer my couch as soon as my housing conditions allow it -promised!

Interests

• culture
• writing
• books
• literature
• photography
• cooking
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• music
• camping
• sports
• medicine
• psychology
• hitchhiking
• volunteering
• lakes
• mountains
• nature
• learning new things
• campfire
• walking barefoot
• political activism
• being physically exhausted
• degrwoth

Music, Movies, and Books

depends - if its important for you ask for more details :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being the first sperm to get into the ovum after battling my way through the cervix

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Montenegro, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany