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Overview

  • 11 references 10 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Dutch, Spanish
  • 39, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • I am an art, education and English teacher :)
  • gymnasium, university of Duisburg Essen; University of Wa...
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

make the best of it! enjoy your life ;) throw away your television!

ABOUT ME

mhhh...I am an optimist, but thoughtful. I really like talking to other people and meeting new people who show me something new. I am very interested in art, music and dancing and love chocolate (unfortunately) and I really enjoy travelling and meeting different kind of people :) and I am always messing up things :S I'm a plonka to be honest!

PHILOSOPHY

enjoy life, enjoy travelling and make friends

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like to surf and to host :) and at the moment I am addicted to LindyHop dancing :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I did CS in Finnland and had a great time! I surfed in Brussels, Vienna, Spain, Belgium and Nürnberg and enjoyed it :) So far I've always travelled with a friend. Regarding hosting I have some experience and so far they've been all very positive! But apart from CS there are always people surfing my couch - friends and family!

Interests

drawing, painting, taking pictures, singing, listening to music especially, going to concerts (fatfreddysdrop! :) enjoying nature (especially water!), eating!!! sports (yoga and zumba, and LindyHop)

  • arts
  • singing
  • concerts
  • dancing
  • chocolate
  • yoga
  • zumba
  • traveling
  • painting
  • drawing
  • music
  • surfing
  • sports
  • beaches
  • lindy hop

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Into the wild, The piano, Babys, Frida, movies by Jim Jarmusch and Tatort - otherwise I dont't watch a lot, I've got no TV...

Music: Air, Beirut, Beatles, The Doors, Eagles, Erica Badu, Fat Freddys Drop, John Fruiscante, Momfords & Sons, Angus & Julia Stone, The Fogjoggers, ...

Books: Comics, for example Haibibi by Craig Thompson, Life of Pi! All Books from T.C. Boyle, Haruki Murakami, Jorge Bucay and Jonathan Safran Foer; Herman Hesse

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Norway
the sounds in New Zealand!
the beaches and rocks of Cadaques in Spain!

Teach, Learn, Share

life is what happens when you're busy making other plans (John Lennon)

So make the best of it!

What I Can Share with Hosts

time together

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Tunisia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, New Zealand

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