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Overview

  • 57 references 44 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German, Spanish; learning French, Italian, Quechua
  • 31, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • No occupation listed
  • Strategic leadership towards sustainability
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Make the world a better place, which is worth living for the following generations!

ABOUT ME

I really enjoy getting to know new people. We all have our own very special understand and view on the world and it's one of the most enrichining things to understand more about other ways to see the world.
I think the best you can do is to see the world with an open mind and be happy about what it offers you. That may be getting to know interesting people (and I think really everyone is interesting in her/his way), seeing fascinating landscape, learning about a new culture or maybe just a smile from a person you wouldn't have expect it from.
So I hope that I will be able to make lots of new experiences in different countries and with different kinds of people.
And I really hope that I can give something back to you and everyone else!

After finishing school I worked one year as a volunteer in the town of Sicuani in the Peruvian Andes. Going back to Germany I started my studies on Environmental and Sustainability Sciences in Lüneburg. After one and a half year I went back to Peru to study two semesters in Lima. (And no, I did not fall in love with a Peruvian but with this diverse incredible country :D ) I did a 7 weeks hitchhiking trip with a Peruvian friend from Lima to Colombia, returned 5 days to Germany and then to Uganda to visit my sister for 5 weeks. Back in Germany university started right away and I'm also always involved in other projects like this one (www.fahrradbus.com ). So I actually I got so much experiences during the last years that for now I feel in need for having a more relaxed time and also would be happy to give something back of the love I received from other hosts and welcome you to couchsurf at my place :)

PHILOSOPHY

"There is no way to peace, peace is the way. "

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
(Mahatma Gandhi)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I had the possibility to surf wonderful couches and now I welcome you all to surf my couch in Lüneburg which is a small beautiful city half an hour from Hamburg.
For me life consists in the relations we have with our surrondings. Especially relations with people and in the end there are also always people behind the food, clothes, stuff you comsume or whatever you do. Via couchsurfing we can extend our net of real relationships.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

First time I did couch surfing was on my Interrail trip in Eastern Europe and I enjoyed it so much! Couchsurfing gives you the possibility to really get to know cities and countries and its a bit like having friends all over the world which you just dont know yet ;)

Interests

  • horses
  • culture
  • books
  • photography
  • festivals
  • salsa dancing
  • capoeira
  • environment
  • human rights
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • surfing
  • soccer
  • languages
  • nature
  • colômbia
  • environmentalism
  • peru
  • samba
  • jazz dance

Music, Movies, and Books

music: The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beatsteaks, Donots, Billy Talent, Placebo, The XX, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bodi Bill, Beat!Beat!Beat!, 30 Seconds To Mars, Nirvana, Bob Marley, Arctic Monkeys, ZAZ, The Kooks, Mando Diao and lots more...

movies: to laugh, to cry, to get informed,...
Der Name der Leute, desert flower, Hotel Ruanda, Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

books: lots of...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I was sixteen I did a riding trip on Iceland with a herd of Icelandhorses which we had to take from one place to an other. There were very special moments being surrounded by so many fast töltend horses in Icelands amazing landscape which I will never ever forget. Especially crossing the See Hop was really fascinating.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can do Dread Locks ;)
I prepare delicious crêpes.
I like to teach languages.

I'd like to improve playing the guitar being teached by others, but if you´re beginner I could also share my knowledge with you

What I Can Share with Hosts

I like to cook, especially deserts and I can prepare delicious crêpes ;)
I also could teach you one of the languages and of course I like to share stories.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Peru

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