CURRENT MISSION

finding the g-major chord - on the piano and in my life

ABOUT ME

If languages were not so incredibly interesting to study and I wasn't so passionate about researching their make-up, I'd ride a unicycle around the world, with a backpack full of books and face paint on my back, or I'd be a doctor.

PHILOSOPHY

shards of glass on the sidewalk can tell more than paintings in a gallery, and very few things cannot be fixed with a roll of duck tape

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing and hosting, bit by bit...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

YES! ;) we couchsurfed through the UK , Canada and the USA, and now the Netherlands - people letting us stay with them was in a way the most amazing part of it...
we've also had our fair share of guest on our little blue couch called "Dagobert" and have thoroughly enjoyed the experience! We think that's, at least in part, due to the fact that we tend to take in those whose requests let us feel that we'll click with them, so we are not particularly good at replying to generic messages that could have been send to *anyone*, and, therefore, we'll keep it that way. I know that sometimes means we miss out on meeting great people...don't let that be you - let us know why you chose us!

Interests

+the contents of your bookshelf
+great ways of making breakfast
+reasons why it is more of a cultural norm to wear matching socks than matching earrings
+how bell peppers get to be full of air despite being waterproof
+what makes a language tick
+images in people's minds and on canvass, the words they correspond to, the things in the world they try to reference, and how they all can never truly be the same
+why words sound less tacky in English or when they rhyme
+ how theater and board games can bring out unknown facets in a person, and bring people together that might not get on easily otherwise

• books
• theater
• dining
• breakfast
• coffee
• vegetarian
• board games
• crochet
• juggling
• painting
• drawing
• piano
• backpacking
• surfing
• languages
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Music is owned by and connected with the individuals who introduce me to it

Right now, Spaceman Spiff (Udo's) and Noah and the Whale (Miri's) are high up on the play list.

Movies
+"The Thriller", a short film I made with a handful of lower secondary English students ;-)
+The Fall
+Das Leben der Anderen
+In Brugge
+Inside Out
+ Inglorious Bastards
+Little Miss Sunshine
+Up
+V for Vendetta
+Das finstere Tal (which nobody outsider Austria/Germany/Italy knows, I presume)
+Moonrise Kingdom

Books
are my constant companions - there are simply too many to list.
Currently I am rereading "The Kingkiller Chronicles", and listening to the audiobook to the teenage phantasy series "Farseers" by Robin Hobb that surprisingly really got me hooked. I am, together with Udo, working my way through "Gödel, Escher, Bach", and am always interested in good crime fiction.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

+ was taken in by complete strangers in London just on the basis of our signs attached to our backpacks and had the most wonderful evenings
+ rode a unicycle up the Schlossberg, a very steep hill in Graz
+ have nursed a calf through its first months
+ dived in the underwater caves of Mexico
+ finished my MA thesis

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you a bit of juggling and how to ride a unicycle, how to crochet warm hats and make tasty vegetarian food.
I'd love to learn more languages (I have always wanted to be able to count to ten in 30 languages by the time I'm thirty), play the piano, jump up two pallets on my unicycle, draw faces in a way that doesn't represent people with one eye twice the size of the other...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories, Philosophies and cups and cups of tea and coffee ;.)
Also, I am a decent chef and would be more than happy to prepare dinner for us - colorful pancakes included ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Finland, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, United States

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