"ALL about me" - haha, that would never fit in here (even though I am a really tiny woman ;-)

Well, I love to travel and go abroad but I also love my time at home, my friends and my family at home - they somehow "ground" me and give me the energy to satisfy my curiosity about this wide and beautiful world.

I am a girl who loves her friends, loves hanging out with them and I would definitely call myself a social person. However, sometimes I just need some time for myself - then I hang out just "with myself" listening to music or enjoying a little walk.

I am a pretty good listener and am (mostly) interested in what other people tell me. I want to know them and what is going on in their little minds.

Over the years, through various stays abroad, I have met so many wonderful people and I really try to stay in contact with them - I find it lovely to meet friends after, let's say, 3 years of not seeing each other: when you find out, that despite this long time, there is still a deep and important bond between us - well, that is just awesome!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surf, I host and I definitely spread the word about CS!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed several couches now and it was always a very pleasing experience. Within the last three years I surfed in Brazil, the US and Eastern Europe and I/we met lovely people who made us access the local culture very directly and just overwhelmed us with their hospitality.
In general, I just love the idea of exchanging and sharing thoughts and ideas and experience things together with others!

Interests

I am interested in languages - learning them, trying to teach them and of course: apply them on locals.
Another field of interest is music - I am certainly not an expert in that area but I just love listening to it, finding new bands, going to concerts, etc.
And I love watching other people - I find it really relaxing watching, observing the social dynamics that are going on on big squares, class rooms, etc. - there is so much to see and to find out.

• culture
• singing
• beauty
• concerts
• walking
• traveling
• cars
• magic
• music
• teaching
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Hmmm...I don't really like these questions about my "favourite xy", because I don't want to finalize my taste and especially not on ONE of each of these.

Anyways, some of the movies I really like are "Into The Wild", "Notes of a Scandal", "23", "Raging Bull", "La meglio gioventù", and many more. For me the best film of 2013 was "The Broken Circle Breakdown" - what a powerful and beautiful movie!

Concerning literature, I generally love Paul Auster. Just recently I discovered John Green and really like him. I enjoyed reading the "Irisches Tagebuch" by Heinrich Böll! "Unterm Rad" by Hermann Hesse as well. And I really like comics...

The most difficult question is now the one about music: I really like a lot of types of music, so I am just listing some of my preferred musicians: Bob Dylan, Ugly Duckling, Jurassic 5, Louis Armstrong, Fabrizio de André, Rodrigo y Gabriela, DJ Shadow, Wax Tailor, FivaMC, Blumentopf, Milky Chance, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The National, ... and many more...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Giants' Cause Way in Northern Ireland: it is so impressive that this was created by nature...couldn't do anything else but stare at it and enjoy it
Also: the Moorish castle in Sintra (near Lisbon): amazing!
When going to Brazil I really recommend going to the Chapada Diamantina - an amazing remote national park in the middle of nowhere which just enchanted me with its beauty!
I do not only like Brazil's natural wonders, also its urban ones - the fact that the Minhocao (=city highway for cars) in SaoPaolo becomes a walking area at night and on Sundays is amazing, I think. It seems humans "re-conquer" their city!
At dawn, I was standing on the rooftoop of a Christian Hostel in the centre of Jerusalem looking at the Dome of the Rock, the Wailing Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre - when suddenly the Muezzin began to sing. That was pure magic.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you German, Italian, and English - in fact I am a teacher in these subjects.
I learned that speaking languages opens up the way to get to know and getting in contact with people. And what else could I ask for while travelling?! - Getting to know the people, their ideas and opinions - which in turn will teach me a lot again. Haha, you could call that the "circle of knowledge" ;-)

Good quote: "You live, you learn"

I want to share what I have learned so far - may these be languages, may these be opinions, may these be my dreams, may these be experiences and stories.
And I wanna hear yours - in fact, I would love you to share these with me...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Ireland, Italy

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