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Overview

  • 8 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in German; learning English, Italian, Russian, Spanish
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • I am recently employed in a research institute and write ...
  • I finished my phyisics studies and will finish my phd soon.
  • From dresden, saxony
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Shalalalala

ABOUT ME

I like to travel a lot like maybe most members of CS do. I have seen many countries and would like to see even more. Especially, I prefer to travel for a couple of months since this is the only way get into the countries and seriously touch base with locals instead of rushing along the countries sights. But since I am on "contract" now time is rare, so it's seldom that I can travel for some months or even weeks.
Besides travelling, I spend my time on photography, dancing (tango) and from time to time piano, although latter could get some more attention.

PHILOSOPHY

I think that we have to think global. It is very important that we communicate and arrange with each other. Intercultural Acceptance/Integration is the sentence of the future not rejection or enforcement. (so war is never the first step)
After a couple of years and reviewing my comments in here, I still have the same opinion. It's all about mutual understanding.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

In both ways. making the community strong i offer and use CS possibilities.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am not new at CS but I had some great CS's on my trip from russia to vietnam. Especially the mongolian CSers helped me so much to come around mongolia, since there is nearly no tourism and/or accomodations.
Thanks again.

Interests

Watching Movies, Piano, of course travelling, tango or dancing in any case.

  • photography
  • dancing
  • tango
  • movies
  • traveling
  • piano
  • mathematics
  • physics
  • tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

mainly german films. but also swedish ones.
to name some: Adams Āžpfel, The pianist, Billy Elliot.
regarding music i like many different musicians. (e.g.: James Brown, ACDC, One Two etc.)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelling to Lake Baikal last year to support the GBT project.(during this: travelling alone and meet many different people) I started to russia on another trip in 2009 to head to vietnam travelling through mongolia, china :-)
was a great time and a huge experience for me.

I visited mexico last year with Maria and spent some incredible 2 months seeing the whole country, experiencing all its contradictions.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teaching in physics or somewhat mathematics should be possible for me. Learning russian would be really nice. i tried to learn it but it is so hard for me. I am open for italian and spanish.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Mongolia, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany

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