ABOUT ME
Hello everyone, we are Maxime, 24 year old medical student, cologne-based, and Leoness, 17, about to start the last year of highschool in southern germany, who will be part of this profile for the upcoming 2 weeks :) We are sisters, experienced in travelling together as Maxime has done a fair share of dragging Leoness along to all kinds of adventures; England, Italy, the Netherlands.. often by tent and sometimes on sofas :)
We Bought a Ukulele this week, attempting to pick up a few chords and sing a few lines. We adore food. Prefer trains to cars and walking through cities to taking the bus - we are curious!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Due to busy times at university there has been quite a break since the last couchsurfing-involving trip, looking forward to surfing in greece now though :) so by now, Maxime has amassed a fair number of couchsurfing experiences, leading from scotland and ireland over the nordic countries such as finland, sweden and denmark, down south to portugal.
It's a big step towards a community built on the values of sharing and helping each other, support rather than competition.
There is this saying on how goods amass when you share them - trying to live that little by little every day.

Also enjoyed being a host for a few times ever since I live in cologne, which is great because it's good to give some openness and help back to fellow travellers.
I am struggeling with the verified profile thingy a bit - please read through my references, I guess what should matter most is, that the people I met found me reliable, and not that this company found access to my purse..

Interests

Just give it all to me.

Studying medicine, there is a fair and rattling urge to understand the planet we live on, a little more, day by day. I started with the human body and - to be fair - it's simply fascinating.

I believe in equality of gender, which seems to equal calling myself a feminist these days - waiting for time when standing up for beliving in the rights of every human doesn't require this extra position anymore.
I believe in freedom of speech, and that nothing one sais should restrict another human in any way.
I believe in climate change and measures to push it back - on a vegan/vegetarian diet, using my bike to high extends, ridesharing - and couchsurfing for that matter. Just the realisation that resources are limited can have eye-opening effects, I hope.
I believe in justice, in freedom of the press, democracy (basic democracy when practiced with determination and patience?), nature, basic human rights.

I like to dance and I like to sing, cook ginormous dinners for friends, bake cakes just for the sake of longing for cake on a wednesday night, read a book on the balcony or discuss philosophy over a glass of wine - or water, for that matter ;)

• dancing
• baking
• knitting
• guitar
• sightseeing

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

ask me in person :)

Teach, Learn, Share

Food and I have a special relationship. Curious in foreign cuisines of any kind.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Germany, United Kingdom