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Overview

  • 9 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German, Spanish; learning Japanese, Swedish
  • 46, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • planning and leading weekends for fathers and their kids.
  • Educator
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Meeting interesting people, seeing interesting faces, races, places & animals, taking interesting fotos, having interesting conversations and eat every kind of food of which I don´t know yet (no matter how gross-looking).

I gladly talk about my "Religion", Jesus, but at the same time I also can keep my mouth shut for everyone who might be apalled by the topic. No problem at all!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Had a couch in Nimwegen, a couch in Morelia, a guided tour through Vera Cruz.
My home is in Dortmund now (decentral, rural).
Although, because I have a Family, it is hard to participate.
I would like to offer a couch, but family first, I hope you understand.

If you like to know about my past experiences, feel free to ask.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

NET: Nijmegen (Nimwegen), 5 days
MEX: Morelia , 2 days
Mex:(traveling) Veracruz, 1 day

Interests

Theatre (acting), comedy, playing go*, mountain biking, inline skating, writing poems, imitating animal voices, watching movies, reading english books, etc.

*Go is a board game played in japan, china and korea a quite lot. It is unlike other games, so it's hard to compare with. Just check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28game%29

  • animals
  • aquaria
  • writing
  • books
  • poetry
  • acting
  • dancing
  • dining
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • origami
  • cycling
  • religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Well, I absolutely like english books. English novels; adventure novels embedded in asian history are great for instance. And I like the bible; I think there is much wisdom in it. Also like books about animals, sometimes mangas.

I like spanish music, Jpop, Kpop, Björk, Peter Gabriel, 80's, pop in general, etc. I really don't like german "Schlager" and german folk. Everything else should be pretty much ok.

I like action movies. SF, comedy. Romantic movies (at most) only on at special occasions. Also strange movies and movies one just won't understand. I like the Monty Python series. I prefer watching movies in english, even when I am in germany. Most friends don't like that, though. I also am open to watch movies in original language when there is an english, spanish or german subtitle. I think that being enriching.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Well, couchsurfing in Nimwegen, Morelia, Veracruz.

- Freeclimbing is amazing sometimes.
- Riding a horse in Tequisquiapan.
- Visiting the Aquarium in Veracruz.
- Seeing a scorpion glow in the dark (blacklight).
- Driving with a bike over a kind of steel rope at a height of around 6 m above the street. (Pic may follow)
- competing in Dance Dance Revolution - fun battles
- Marrying
- Becoming father

As a child:
- my first tide experience in the netherlands
- my first encounter with ants and our try to stop them on their road via a chewing gum

As a preteen:
- surviving an incredible car crash with just my arm broken

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Go [/baduk](japanese board game),
acting (its a big hobby for me since 2003 - and work since 2010),
and I like to do interesting new "inventions" out of coloured drawing paper. So if you want to do a handicraft, maybe I can think of a way how to do it.

What I would like to learn:
improve my spanish, swedish
how to lose my german accent (english, spanish)
new tongue twisters in your language
origami or other handicraft work
card tricks or fun stuff
unicycling
beatboxing and other sounds you can do with the mouth

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany

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