CURRENT MISSION

"You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live." - Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

ABOUT ME

What wired category is "all about me". There are so many parts of me. That's why on the one side I don't fit in this little box BUT on the other side I believe that I'm just a very unimportant spot in this deeply connected universe.

What I may have in common with many couchsurfers is my open-minded and interested attitude, that I love to share (things, emotions, stories) and that I do travel a lot. What may be special about me is that I blush easily and I do sometimes lack the desire to possess physical things and so I often loose them.

Let's face that there are people who have better words for describing my attempt of writing about my character: "I try on stories like cloth!" (Mein Name sei Gantenbein - Hermann Hesse) [- is that way to honest?] Maybe I'm somehow too flexible but I truely enjoy to wonder and be amazed about so many things!

PHILOSOPHY

"Peace is every step."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Since 2008 I've met so many couchsurfers and heard uncountable stunning stories, experienced true hospitality, faced my timidity, desired to have more space to host even more people and been so glad to participate in this social net!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This project makes the world (a little bit) better.

Interests

making yoga at the beach. trying a new jogging route each day. eating porridge. seeing art-house films. laughing out very loud. dancing. being amazed about the good things in life (for example a wonderful word). having afternoon tea with new and old friend. integrating different opinions. disagreeing if necessary. tolerating emotions. believing. being a scientist in the meaning of the word. discovering new worlds. being shaken to the core AND trying to be peaceful in all my actions and interests!

• arts
• writing
• dancing
• recipes
• vegetarian
• yoga
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• boxing
• science
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Der Steppenwolf. Anna Karenina. TonSteineScherben. Emmas Glück. Tocotronic. Mein Herz so weiß. Johnny Cash. Foo Fighters. Lumminers. Glen Hansard. Mumford and sons. Mulholland Drive. Das Haus der sprechenden Tiere. Rio Reiser. Vier Minuten. Extrem laut und unglaublich nah. Faust I. Don Juan de la Mancha ... and many more movies, music, books...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

To love and to be loved.

Teach, Learn, Share

I could draw a social landscape of you and your network (if that would please you!) - but that's just one thing I can teach you from the basics of my studies :-). Furthermore I could show you some simple, vegetarian recipes and I may teach you some yoga. Of course I can show you around in Mainz or Frankfurt.

Perhaps you could teach me how to make jokes, speak french, make sushi, face pessimism (I'm not good in doing this), practice mindfulness, to do headstand, use statistical programms or totally different interesting things.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, France, Ireland, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany