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  • 27 references 23 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Spanish
  • 34, Female
  • Member since 2012
  • graphic designer / photographer
  • theatre, film and media studies
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About Me

My friends would say I´m a spirited, honest, independent and imaginative person.

I'm a creative soul and work in photography, graphics and Lingerie design. I am also a co-founder of SENNsenn, a Viennese StartUp that develops plant based cheese alternatives. Sustainability is a big topic in my life in general.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I can host people from time to time and I also like to make new friends when I´m travelling.

Interests

Aerial Silks, Aerial Lyra, dancing, photography, hiking, writing, doing big journeys (with my finger on the map - and in reality). I love sewing, for example dance costumes.
Tasty food is really important to me and I like baking and doing desserts!

I really love my work, so I´d like to meet other creative minds (out of all fields of art and design) and have inspiring conversations.

I do appreciate some kind of conscious, sustainable and minimalistic lifestyle, so I try to reduce my things and collect memories instead. In the middle of my busy and turbulent life I try to slow down.
I really enjoy gardening.

My boyfriend Leo - who will be travelling with me most of the time - is working in environmental research as a chemical engineer. He's totally into music, mostly electronic music, but also Brazilian samba drum rhythms and many other genres. Leo is a really warm hearted person, making friendship with everybody. He's enjoying life and very relaxed, but adventurous at the same time. He likes nature, cycling, hiking, swimming and rock climbing.

  • performing arts
  • design
  • photography
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • desserts
  • gardening
  • traveling
  • minimalism
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • mountains
  • nature
  • street food
  • fine arts
  • aerial silk
  • aerial hoop
  • aerial acrobatics

Music, Movies, and Books

Every kind of music that is danceable - from techno and dubstep, to hip hop, soul, ska, indie, folk and jazz (Thank you, Prague!) and (since I´ve been to Cali) reggaeton and salsa. And I generally LOVE everything I have heard in Brazil - from Samba to Funk.

I like arthouse movies, documentaries and sci-fi movies, novels by Wolf Haas, Amélie Nothomb, Milan Kundera or Jonas Jonasson, books about pattern cutting and sewing.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Went paragliding, feeded an elephant baby with peanuts and went sandboarding in the desert, slept in a hammock in the Amazon rainforest, saw Cristo Redentor out of a helicopter, spent a wonderful time hiking Moroccos mountains and canyons, tasted freedom, fell in love and got to know people, moments and experiences, that made me truly happy.
Plus I took Scuba diving lessons, eventhough I am aquaphobic - my boyfriend had to bribe me with tons of chocolate.

Teach, Learn, Share

Aerial Silks, photography and cooking

What I Can Share with Hosts

When I´m couchsurfing I usually bring a little gift or I cook something for my host, if there´s enough time. I also love sharing stories about travelling! Whenever somebody tells me about his backpacking experiences, I feel my wanderlust immediately ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria

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