I love to travel ever since I can remember. I am fascinated in making new experiences and seeing a variety of different landscapes, people and cultures.
Being an English teacher and having lived in a small village in Wisconsin for some month as part of my studies I am fluent in English but can try to dig up the bits and pieces I remember from four years of French and three years of Spanish in school.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I don't "only" want to travel but also to meet people who can give a me a more authentic insight into the area I'm visiting.

Interests

• literature
• running
• teaching
• languages
• travelling
• europe

Music, Movies, and Books

I cannot really decide which kind of music is my favorite - mostly it is a lot of fast stuff. This can include almost anything from rock over jazz, hiphop, reggae to electro. Besides the beat I like creative, funny or intelligent lyrics.
The same goes for books and films - as long as the story is told in an interesting way I like a lot of different genres and titles.
Nevertheless, "Love Actually" is clearly one of my all-time favorites which I share with my wife.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 2014 I organized a workshop as part of the so-called History Campus "Europe 14/14" commemorating the 100 years since World War I started. It was an amazing experience to work with a group of young people from Serbia, Italy, Ukraine, Romania and Germany and discuss their ideas about remembering history.
A similar event was held in 2018 for 100 years since the end of World War I with an even greater variety of countries and an equally awesome few days.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Whenever I meet new people all over the globe I like to stay in touch with them every once in a while. I think it is great to know people all around a world in order to be able to talk to them about current events and their perspective of the the world because it certainly widens your horizon.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States