CURRENT MISSION

Setting up a some-what adult life without becoming boring.

ABOUT ME

Travel and Teaching. This is hopefully how I will spend my life. Teaching is a wonderful active profession where you can see people grow, understand and develop their own ideas while traveling helps me to get new input and work on the never ending project, called: "Michael".

PHILOSOPHY

Sharing/Having a good life!
Trying to be a good guy

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurfed and hosted in Germany,
Venezuela, Vietnam, and Australia. I also
travelled (and partly couchsurfed)
through most of Europe, Colombia, New
Zealand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, the US and Tokyo.

Interests

Sailing
Climbing
Running
Cycling
Literature
Being a Christian
Cooking
Yoga

• literature
• chinese new year
• cooking
• yoga
• running
• walking
• traveling
• survival
• cycling
• hiking
• sailing
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Absolute Giganten, The Big Lebowski, The Castle, Whiplash, Brick, Nightcrawler, Old Boy, The life of others, Goodbye Lenin, The Beach, Citizen Kane

Music: Coldplay, The Magnetic Fields, Element of Crime, Eels, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Oasis, Wir sind Helden, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Herbert Groenemeyer, The Postal Service, Mumford and Sons, Flight of the Conchords

Books: John Irving, Bukowski, Richard Ford, Paul Auster, James Clavell, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Bible, Daniel Kehlmann, some Bill Bryson, Brenner Romane,

Comics: Art Spiegelmann, Craig Thompson, Jeff Smith, Manu Larcent, Frank Miller, Reinhard Kleist

At the moment I
read:
Shantaram - really makes me want to go to India

listen to:
Oh-oh, I get old! Rediscoverded
classical music, conducted by Karajan.

Just didn't finish: Sorry guys. I don't get "Celestine
Prophecy" Everyone recommends it
but I don't get the vibe:(

Chocolate is awesome, even as marks on books and CDs and DVDs.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sunrise on Fraser Island
Living in Caracas
6 day Hike to the Lost City in Colombia
Celebrating 36 hours nonstop on a mountain in Greece
Couchsurfing in general
New Zealand, just an absolute dream country. Every second there was outstanding.
Spending a wonderful Christmas 2009 with two lovely families in Sydney.
Sitting in a Cafe in Melakka/Malaysia while Chinese New Year starts in all its firecracking crazyness.
Meeting the outstanding friendly and welcoming people of the United States.
Walking Tokyo from 4AM to 10PM
One week New York City

Teach, Learn, Share

I teach German (and English) during my travels and I am more than happy to practice some survival sentences with you for your next journey to "Deutschland"!
My cooking is not to bad, that is what the people say.

A little German poem:
Erich Fried - Ausweichen

Ich weiß
daß ich oft oder meistens
ausweichen will

Ich weiß auch
daß das verständlich ist
denn ich will leben

Aber ich weiß nicht mehr
ob man leben bleibt
wenn man ausweicht

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Colombia, France, Italy, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United States, Venezuela, Viet Nam

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