Hi, I'm Michael, born and raised in Adelaide. I studied German and linguistics at Uni and now I work as an English language assistant in Erlangen, Germany. I would love to learn more languages, especially: Finnish, Swedish and Dutch. I love travel, meeting new and interesting people from different lands and cultures and exploring new locations.

I'm a laid-back, honest, open-minded, liberal person with a very sarcastic, often silly and slightly sardonic sense of humour.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I lived with two Belgians in December 2013, and had lots of fun showing them around my hometown, listening to their travel stories, and became really good friends with them. This inspired me to give couchsurfing a shot and it's been amazing.

I started hosting in April 2014, it's been brilliant and I've met many amazing people. I've also surfed in Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Finland and France, and hung out with couchsurfers in Croatia.

Interests

I enjoy photography and am constantly going to new places and taking photos. I take lots of photos of people and places as you can see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/serapheus/sets

Music, Movies, and Books

TV shows: Dark, Game of Thrones, Vikings, Babylon Berlin, Love, Master of None, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Girls, Homeland, House of Cards, Skins, Spaced, The Office etc etc.

Movies: Léon, Watchmen, Inglourious Basterds, The Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight trilogy, L'Auberge Espagnole trilogy, Das Leben Der Anderen, Män som hatar kvinnor, Copenhagen, Feuchtgebiete, Shame, movies by Woody Allen, Mike Leigh, Christopher Guest, Christopher Nolan, Wes Anderson, Fatih Akin, Simon Pegg, David O. Russell, Tarantino, Miyazaki, Aronofsky, the Coen brothers, any film where Liam Neeson goes on a rampage and so on and so forth.

Books: Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, A Song of Fire and Ice series, Momo, Tschick and anything about science/philosophy/language/literature.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of the most amazing things I've done was studying international environmental law at Maastricht University, in the Netherlands. I also recently traveled through 7 countries in Europe over 7 weeks and it was absolutely amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

My main interests are languages, photography and beer. I could talk about these things all day. So be prepared!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I live in a shared apartment with two Master students. We live about 10 minutes from the city center by bike.

We don't have a spare room but two spare mattresses. We also have WiFi, stove-top, fridge, oven.

Smoking is not allowed in the apartment.

I'm happy to show people around our little city when I'm not working.

I can host both weekdays and weekends.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany