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???

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"

Interests

Sports: Football (playing and watching), Skiing, Jogging, Golf, Swimming
Culture: Opera, Theatre, Paintings, Photography
Travelling and Hiking, Reading

• culture
• photography
• dining
• marathon
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• opera
• hiking
• skiing
• sports
• soccer
• swimming
• golf
• business

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?!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany

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