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Overview

  • 10 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning French, Persian (Farsi)
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • No occupation listed
  • No education listed
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Dass ich erkenne, was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält...

ABOUT ME

I try to live my life following to my own standards, based on solidarity between people.
I'm also quite a political person, and think a lot about the connection between me, my sourrounding and the rest of the world.
I love to immerse myself in other worlds, and try to find as many of them as possible. I'm keen on learning new languages, I am interested in sports, cooking, reading, culture and nature, learning and creating new interests. Others describe me as a curious person and sometimes too serious, but I have a very ironic and often very dark sense of humor.
I like my country and try to exchange experiences as much as possible with people from other countries and cultures.
I just started travelling, but it's one of my biggest passions, so I try to carry on as much as possible.

PHILOSOPHY

I try not to leave any negative traces in the world and my sourrounding.
Trees are my teachers: powerful roots in the earth, strong, elastic treetop high in the air.
Be aware of action and reaction, so you can keep Karma: What goes around, comes around.
Try to be useful for others, but don't forget to appreciate your true Self .
Accept change as inevitable.
Keep your Self-Control.
Harmony is the natural stadium of evrything in this world.
Trees are my teachers: powerful roots in the earth, strong elastic treetop high in the air.
Smile.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."

-Gilbert K. Chesterton

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surf and I try to host as fast as possible, but unfortunately this is not always possible due to my living conditions.
I try to share all my positive achievements with supporting communities and I hope they can learn from my negative ones.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm still quite new to this project, but there were already very intense experiences. I used couchsurfing in Iran and the hospitalitiy I have experienced really changed my view on me and the world!

Interests

I'm keen on reading (everything, no matter whether it's poetry, fiction, non-fiction, etc), philosophy, discussions, travelling and everything else that is able to widen my view on the world.
I like forests, mountains the wilderness and bushcraft.
I'm a very sporty person as well an love all kinds of sports, especially climbing,running, swimming, martial arts. and I love cycling. I like to cook as well and like to do, make or repair things and conditions.
I try to master the things I'm afraid of.

  • arts
  • culture
  • poetry
  • cooking
  • running
  • reading
  • traveling
  • cycling
  • sports
  • martial arts
  • rock climbing
  • swimming
  • languages
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I seriously don't know how to describe my interests in in a few words as there are so many...
But what first comes to my mind is all kinds of adventure and travelling stories, stories about other cultures, philosophy, politics, classic novels, crime stories, folk music from all around the world, rap, punk ...
The list is already becoming to long, it's hard to limit my interests, but we can always talk about these things!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This is the hardest part for me to write, because life consists of so many little amazing moments that are sometimes private,so it's not that easy to write them down.
But I think one of the most amazing moment is when you achieved something new on your own, and you feel that you just crossed an imaginary line and from now on you're stronger than before.

Teach, Learn, Share

As I'm a trained gardener, I could help with issues concerning plants.
I would love to practice other languages.
I not quite sure what to write here, but I will share all the positive sides of my personalitiy with everybody and would be glad if I'm able to teach something positive to somebody no matter the issue.

What I Can Share with Hosts

This depends also on the host, but of cooking is something I really like. Like I said before, I try to share everything positive.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Greece, Iran, Italy, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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