CURRENT MISSION Get to learn foreign people and return at least some of the hospitalitites I had the pleasure to encounter during my trips, both business and holidays ABOUT ME I'm a person of many interests, be it in sports, culture, travel, hobbies, music... just life in itself. Calm and not too talkative at first, it usually takes me just a little while to fully open up, but once accomplished I sometimes may appear very difficult to be stopped... I mostly prefer keeping a little distance from things, that helps to keep a better overview over things, doesn't it? I enjoy a good - sometimes philosophical, sometimes sincere, simetimes simply silly - talk. No joke, no word game is too weird to be at least tried... PHILOSOPHY LIFE IS WAY TOO SHORT TO SPEND ON LOW-QUALITY EXPERIENCES!!! Sometimes I think, a community that's got their senses together should try and convince their governments to spend just 5% of their budgets on "military and self-defence" on compulsory students' exchange programs - I'm convinced it would reduce racism by at least 50% and help to develop all of the necessary skills to overcome all of the global challenges of our times, wouldn't it???
Interested in Classical
Fluent in German
Learning Italian
Pioneer Badge
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE So far only German - luckily only very positive guests and hosts!! Look forward to meeting people from "God knows where"
Music, Movies, and Books
I enjoy almost all sorts of movies, music and books as long as the are somewhat creative and give me the impression, they've been / are being done with passion to share any sort of emotion. Difficult to rate any, but maybe I'll give 3 examples each: Movies 1-The big Lebowski 2-O Brother, where art thou 3-The great Dictator Music 1-DEPECHE MODE (!!!) 2-Björk 3-Jovanotti Books 1-Tom Hogdkinson, How to be idle 2-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild 3-Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Alaska: Hiking the Chilkoot, seen Northern Lights and a Flock of Orcas Wrecking my knees during the NY Marathon...
Teach, Learn, Share
Teach: maybe some things in German and about German lifestyle and food Learn: maybe some things in your language Share: a good time?!
My Interests
Sports: Football (playing and watching), Skiing, Jogging, Golf, Swimming Culture: Opera, Theatre, Paintings, Photography Travelling and Hiking, Reading