CURRENT MISSION

To make YOU a roquefort stuffed hamburger with grilled red onions, bacon, lettuce and tomato!

ABOUT ME

Robert likes to cook, meet new people, learn languages, dance, play instruments, take photos, travel, read and ride his bike. Someday he hopes to do something artistic, but until then he'll be as average as the INFP that he is.

Robert aime bcp les choses suivants: cuisiner, rencontrer les gens sympa, apprendre les langages, danser, jouer les instruments, faire le photo, voyager, lire et faire un tour en velo. Dans l'avenir il veut faire quelque chose d'artistique, mais pendant le temps avant cette désir est realisée, il restera un mec normal comme l'INFP (un type de personalité jungien) qu'il soit.

Robert hat die folgenden Dingen gern: kochen, neue Leute kennen lernen, die Sprachen lernen, tanzen, die Instrumente spielen, fotografieren, reisen, lesen und reiten sein Fahrrad. Eines Tages hofft er, etwas künstlerisches zu tun, aber bis dann ist ihn so Durchschnittsmensch wie das INFP (eine Persönlichkeittyp von Karl Jung), daß er ist.

PHILOSOPHY

As a jaunt of a small treatise: I believe that life is fairly short. I believe that the majority of people realize this but do two very different things in light of it. On one side, there are those who try to make as much money as possible to buy as many things as possible to satisfy their vanity. On the other side, are those who, instead in a different or more enlightened form of vanity, seek to enrich their lives through the arts and through travel. Those who seek pleasure through things and those who seek pleasure through enriching themselves. I identify with the latter, and in so doing wish to enrich my life through travel, cooking, learning, experiencing, reading and laughing. I will probably never earn a lucrative living, but before I die, I will think back on my experience as being far richer than Bill Gate's 401k -- at least that's what I'm aiming for!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Haven't quite figured that out yet.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

so far so amazing.

Interests

Riding bikes, public transportation, organic food (bio), fair trade coffee, Alsacian white wine (Riesling!), Bordeaux red wines, Deutcher Bier, Single Malt Scotch, musical instruments, music in general, my basil plant that I named Blaisil Cendrars (like the French writer), wikipedia, travel, talking about travel, listening to old people tell stories and give me advice (which I usually heed!), local cuisine, the ocean, interesting people and different languages.

• arts
• writing
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• red wine
• white wine
• coffee
• organic food
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Seventh Seal, Citizen Kane, The 400 Blows, I Heart Huckabees, The Darjeeling Limited, Persona, Seven Samurai and many others!

Music (lately): Television, Space, The Durutti Column, Black Devil, Giorgio Moroder, Section 25, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, impLOG, James White and the Blacks, Defunkt, Herbie Handcock, ESG, The Slits, The Heartbreakers, Glenn Branca, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley and much more!

Books: Notes From the Underground, Ulysses, Hericlitus fragments, Moby Dick, The Heart of Darkness and Farwell to Arms.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing thing I've ever seen is the former capital of old Japan, Kyoto, I wandered the shrines in awe, I felt like I was transported back in time -- to a place so foreign that it rendered me oblivious to the modern world...a nice feeling.

Teach, Learn, Share

I really like to cook, I'm still learning but can make some pretty tasty meals. So, if someone likes to cook as well, it would be nice to learn a local dish! I make it a point to try the local cuisine. I've been playing guitar for about 10 years, so I can teach someone some basic chords or a song that I know if that's what they dig. I love photography but I'm not very good at it, so if you're a photographer, I'd love to see your shots!

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Japan

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