CURRENT MISSION
Research trip through Norway in March 2017 (topic open educational ressources)

Get to know Iran (done 3,5 weeks, a wonderful country with the nicest people I've met so far)
get to know the USA (7 weeks in 2015, 10 weeks in 2016)

ABOUT ME

Humour, curious, open for serious discussions, enjoying all kinds of stuff,

PHILOSOPHY

Making the world a better place... a joint effort of many... I want to contribute to that.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I started CS for my trip to Iran, because last year we went to a wedding in North East India and had a very nice experience there with actually spending some quality time with Indians and since that I dont want to go back to hotel contacts only. Couchsurfing Iran was a beautiful experience, so I would love to do some more in summer in the US.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A beautiful trip to Iran and some really nice people I met there by CS.

Interests

Well, I am working in the field of inclusive education (teaching and research) and my basic question is how to make the world a better place (using education). This is what keeps me running (and it maybe will for some time).
Hiking, nature (mostly animals), architecture, streetart is cool as well. ;)

I've been here:

• animals
• architecture
• design
• education
• cooking
• running
• hiking
• skydiving
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Anders Thomas Jensen (danish movies), Hitchcock, Jim Jarmusch, Wallace & Gromit, Mary and Max

Tv-Series
How I Met Your Mother, 24, Lost, Greys Anatomy, Private Pratice, My Name is Earl, Californication, New Girl, Real Humans, Orphan Black

Books & Authors
Douglas Coupland, local authors from Berlin, Frank McCourt,
Mark Twain

Audiobooks
Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, crime stories

Music
System of a down, Kings of Convenience, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Adam Green, Moldy Peaches, Kimya Dawson, german indie-rock

Comics
Calvin und Hobbes

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Riding elephants in North East India was kind of cool. But I am also enjoying the little moments in my everyday life.

Teach, Learn, Share

Design Thinking, a lovely way of creative problem solving that focusses on the user needs and could be applied to improving a lot of things and processes.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook dinner (and clean the dishes afterwards as a lovely mother of a host in Iran was happy to see)

Great pictures from Iran and the National Parks in North America.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Iran, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States