I´ve scribbled down a lot over these years. Not to worry, I don´t expect you to read through all the rumblings of an "old" man.

Everyone (especially pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent mice) consider the answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" to be quite difficult and complex. It think it is quite straightforward. Occupy yourself in 42 different ways until you die. Don´t overthink it. In the grand scheme of things neither you nor your life matter. Since we humans tend to still stress about miniscule, irrelevant things, just keep in mind that you managed to stay alive until now and you most likely even have all limbs still attached. And don´t forget to look up to the stars and keep in mind that...
...you are matter, but you don´t.

I love people with dreams and stories, teaching foreign languages, a good drink, a hike through the mountains with a friend, astronomy, daydreams about far-away galaxies, games, archery, canoes, horses, camping and dogs.

I'd take some good music or movies, beers, board games and swell company over clubbing any day of the week.

I feel home in the water, I'm afraid of heights. Still, you'll find me in the mountains during both summer and winter.

I love good food so much, I could be starring in Anthony Bourdain's "Food Porn" as the guy moaning over some delicious Paneer Tikka Masala; Vietnamese Pho Bo; Senegalese yassa poulet; Wareniki; German Sauerbraten, Semmelknoedel or Spaetzle; salmon with rosemary potatoes or Swiss Cheese Fondue.

I love reading a good book but I hardly do it anymore. And every time I see someone on the bus or the tram still reading a book made out of real paper and not playing or chatting on their smartphone I feel like giving them a hug :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Traveled, hosted and surfed with quite a few CS members in the past 8 years or so?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Greeeat way to meet people with a similar attitude and view on life! Some of my closest friends over the years I´ve met through CS. Couchsurfing has helped me find jobs, internships, travel buddies, tour guides and above all, 10 different groups of people who hosted me for 6 straight months during my 6th semester in Tübingen.

Interests

Water sports, archery, tattoos, languages, travelling (kinda obvious), rock concerts, atheism and rationalism; science, movie marathons, beer, board and pc games, sustainable living, post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction, micro nomad homes, outdoor living communities and most of all: cooking and food

• books
• tattoos
• dining
• cooking
• cheese
• beer
• drinking
• boating
• movies
• video games
• reading
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• backpacking
• canoeing
• kayaking
• kite surfing
• snowshoeing
• sports
• languages
• science
• tourism
• mountains
• tiny houses
• geocaching
• boardgames
• archer
• houseboats

Music, Movies, and Books

Interstellar, Old Boy, Into the Wild. Haven´t watched many recently, though.

TV Shows: The Leftovers, The Wire, Doctor Who, Black Mirror, The OA, Fargo, Taboo UK, The Expanse, Rick and Morty...

My favourite recent book I´ve read is "Atlas of an Anxious Man" by Christoph Ransmayr.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went horsebackriding in the pampa with Brazilian gauchos.

For my 18th birthday my father "gave" me a mountain as a present. A few weeks later we climed the 4150m high Bishorn together.

In Vietnam I ate pork brain, fried rat, duck embryo, frozen duck blood, pig´s ears and sucked snails out of their shells. And it wasn't that bad actually :)

With my parents' VW van and 3 friends I drove from Germany all the way to the Sahara in Morocco.

I washed an elephant in India.

I stayed with a family in a small village in Nagaland for two weeks.

While backpacking in Senegal and Gambia our ferry got stuck in the mud and we had to take a giant canoe-like boat with 200 other people.

I volunteered to teach German in a small village on Flores in Indonesia. We only had an hour of electricity every day and to check my E-Mails I had to travel for hours on a very bumpy road through the forest.

After I graduated from University I simply got a one-way ticket to South-East Asia, packed a suitcase and went looking for work in Vietnam. I rented a house, got a job and a dog and went on living there for a little while.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach me how to build a treehouse and I'll teach you how to kayak.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Gambia, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Latvia, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Portugal, Viet Nam

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