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Overview

  • 4 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, German; learning Chinese, Russian, Spanish
  • 43, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • supply chain management
  • studied international economics; international trainee pr...
  • From Berlin
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

explore the world - next is Brazil

ABOUT ME

I'm open-minded, enterprising and looking forward to meeting kind people from all parts of the world!

PHILOSOPHY

Carpe Diem!
and: treat others as you want to be treated you yourself

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

by sharing my couch and my travel experience with you!
By showing you around in my beautiful town...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've had an amazing travel experience thanks to really fine people from Couchsurfing& Hospitalityclub in Canada!

Interests

Tours with friends (canoe,climbing,skating...), cinema, dancing, have interesting talks around a good cup of espresso or wine, gospel choir...

  • wildlife
  • culture
  • dancing
  • wine
  • movies
  • traveling
  • canoeing
  • rock climbing
  • tour de france
  • languages
  • tours

Music, Movies, and Books

Film: so many! e.g. "life is beautiful"

music: nearly all styles of music, esp. good rock &jazz &ambient - currently "Anthony and the Johnsons" (e.g. you are my sister)

books: all kinds of biographies..., "a small history of everything" and many others

organisations: Rotaract (social projects, e.g. counseling at child camps)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

China: China (west): trekking through the Yangtse delta and Himalaya-nearby canyons, exploring Xian Emperor's Army, Beijing Emperor's Palace, Shanghai's and Hongkongs buzzling markets...

France: cruised through the whole country with 25 students along the river Loire and to the Mediterranean, cheered by the French (Tour de France at the same time) - fantastic!

Canada: wildlife, overnight in "prison"-like hostel, whale-watching...

others: Prague, Budapest, Stockholm, Spain, Italy...

Teach, Learn, Share

teach/ share: Optimism, knowledge about French+ Chinese culture

learn: new languages, other cultures, practical work (repair a car, renovate a flat/build a house)...

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