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Overview

  • 31 references 16 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish; learning Hindi, Portuguese, Turkish
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • Translator, tandem pilot and paragliding instructor
  • 12years of school, 1 year in India
  • From a little mountain village named Sibratsgfäll
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to see, do, dream, experience,... everything that is possible with this beautiful existence in this garden Eden... to coninuously extend my selfset limits towards freedom

ABOUT ME

Live, Love, Freedom
...and maybe a deep, deep connection to India, a love affair with South America and a strong desire to travel, adapt, change, learn and know.

PHILOSOPHY

take the Vedas, Koran, Bible or the writings of Lao Tzu (and undoubtedly a lot of others)- take away everything edited by clerics and similar human beings, add a big portion of stubbornness and liberal-western-education-individuality and you got it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am sharing myself, just being... Trying to learn from what I experience, be it with CS or without...
and of course, there will be a free couch whenever I feel the need to settle down!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Were except for one absolutely positive and absolutely enriched my travelling and stays.

Interests

outdoors, nature, animals, hiking, climbing, swimming, paragliding, snowboarding, motorbikes, kayaking, rafting, reading, travelling, being, languages, changing myself, music, dancing, playing guitar and djembe, stillness, laughing, friends and dear people, yoga, eating (which brings along cooking), dreaming and even more realizing dreams...

  • animals
  • culture
  • dancing
  • education
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • flying
  • gardening
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • outdoor activities
  • hiking
  • kayaking
  • snowboarding
  • rock climbing
  • paragliding
  • swimming
  • teaching
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Garfield! Fantasy!
there's just too many books! A special one's maybe: Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. I do enjoy the 'Vampire Chronicles' of Anne Rice alot, as well as Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
Musicwise it starts with Heavy Metal and stops with Rumanian folk music. In between I'm listening to Goa-Trance, Latin music, all kinds of French interpreters, Reggae, so called World Music (folk music of different cultures, specially Gypsie, Indian and African music)and Classic. (favs are Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikowsky). And, though it's only partly music, master Facundo Cabral.
Movies? If I find time for them, let it be 'The Big Lebowskie', all and everything by Quentin Tarrantino, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' and 'Don Juan de Marco'.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Depending on how one sees things, all aspects of life are amazing...
Paragliding - flying! - to me is the very most amazing and beautiful thing one can experience... and travelling with a paraglider and meeting local pilots is just great!
Something that I'm definitely thinking back on is my camel that I bought in India and travelled on for about 5 weeks... I've always wanted to travel around by and with an animal.

Teach, Learn, Share

I might definitely be able to help building up some snowboarding skills! I'll also be very happy to show you our flying sites around wherever I am...

What I Can Share with Hosts

A lot of interest in and curiosity for him/her and his/her culture, some Austrian-Asian fusion style cooking skills for a nice meal together and definitely a great story or two to make him/ her laugh!

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Austria, France, Spain, United States

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