ABOUT ME

I am passionate about travelling and I love discovering possibilities and embarking upon new adventures. I travelled around the world, spent a couple of semesters in the United States and France, cycled across the United States, but I LOVE being at home, too!

I'm loving life and all of its facets. I've had severe downfalls in the past, but somehow it just teaches me to appreciate all the highs as much as I can.

PHILOSOPHY

Courage is not the absence of fear - it is the feeling that there is something more important.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I prefer hosting to surfing and try to make my guests' stay awesome!

Interests

Cooking, travelling, literature, athletics, politics, meeting friends, biology, foreign languages, short stories, novels, writing and talking, adventure

• culture
• writing
• literature
• cooking
• beer
• drinking
• politics
• traveling
• fishing
• hiking
• surfing
• snorkeling
• biology
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

You're welcome to check out my "library" or watch one of my many DVDs with me. I read a LOT.
Stuff I've enjoyed especially:

T.C. Boyle - The Women
Annie Proulx - Fine just the way it is
Rafik Shami - Das Geheimnis des Kalligraphen
Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind
Tao Lin - Gute Laune
John Irving - The Cider House Rules
Cormac McCarthy - The Border Trilogy
Stieg Larsson's Trilogy
Frank Schätzing - Der Schwarm and Limit
Michael Stanley - A Carrion Death and the following books of Detective Kubu
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
Jean-Christophe Grangé - Schwarzes Blut
Jussi Adler-Olsen - the Department Q-books

etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Oh well. Can I say the whole trip around the world?! Some highlights:

Hiking through remote parts of Grand Canyon and listening to the silence and peculiar sounds.

Watching the sunset from Mueller Hut in New Zealand and totally losing it on a laughing fit with newly made friends after eating a pound of pasta.

Snorkeling on the Cook Islands, driving around on a Vespa in a bikini, buying the freshest tuna ever and drinking beer by the sunset.

Hiking up to 5200m in Ecuador and still feeling great.

Eating fresh ramen on the fish market in Tokio - at 5am.

...and so much more. Ask me and I'll tell you!

Teach, Learn, Share

I am able to share a lot of stories about being a foreigner in another culture - I was an exchange student once. I can teach you how to cook, too!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cook Islands, Croatia, Ecuador, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, United States