I am an ever curious mind always looking for a new perspective.

Personally, I am a white CIS hetero female (she/her) from Germany who loves learning different languages, living at different places, discovering their culture by talking to the locals and eating the (vegetarian) local cuisine. I enjoy spending time with others and am fairly talkative and I would also say easy to talk to (I have heard of listening xD), but I can also spend time with myself discovering new places or just reading a book, so hosts need not worry they need to entertain me .

My love for different perspectives defenitely extends to my professional life and led to extensive studying (I now have a strong background in linguistics, psychology, human-machine interaction (so, e.g. UX) and am currently writing my thesis at SGH Warsaw in a management related field).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Let's state the obvious: I like to discover new places.
Even more than travelling for a short amount of time (a matter of days or weeks), I like to move around and live in different places - I would say a minimum stay of 6 months is how I enjoy to get to know a new place.
Either way, whether vacation stay or new home, when I get somewhere new, I much prefer to get a locals view on the places I visit, so I am always looking to emerge as much as possible with locals rather than with the local ex-pat community ;-)

Interests

TRAVEL: I try to go somewhere new a lot, my focus and latest travel destinations are different places in Europe (Praha, Budapest, Tromsø, Paris, Roma, Wien, Berlin, Leipzig, Lyon, Barcelona, Dubrovnik, Granada, Warszawa, Kraków, Wrocław are some of the 'bigger' cities I've been to), although I spent a year in Australia and went to both the US and Kuba once as well.

FOOD: but not so much cooking, as EATING ;) but if you cook, I will gratefully help in any way and do the dishes :-p I must admit, I am sometimes sceptic with unknown dishes, but I really want to try a lot and most of the time, it's very rewarding. I am a vegetarian though, so in some countries I might not have tried the most renown dishes...

CONCERTS: I especially enjoy small concerts in smaller clubs. I have also been to a few festivals and do enjoy the whole experience a lot, but I feel the more direct way for me to soak in all the music (and not so much the surroundings, people, food etc. I enjoy about festivals) is in a more intimate set-up

• concerts
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• pilates
• traveling
• bouldering
• music
• karaoke
• martial arts
• nature
• climbing
• martialarts

Music, Movies, and Books

SERIES: Killing Eve, Fleabag, Easy, Please Like Me, This is us, Sense8, Avatar the last airbender, Amercian Gods, Grey's Anatomy (especially after season 10), Sex Education, Miracle Workers,

MOVIES: Her, Home Again, Kill Bill Vol 1&2, Laggies, Snatch, Where the wild things are, Julie&Julia, Birdman, Longshot, Finding Neverland, Midnight in Paris, Edward Scissorhands, Chocolat, The Holiday, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Why Him, The Matrix

MUSIC: I love Soundtracks of many series and movies (Snatch, Vicky Christina Barcelona, Grey's Anatomy, Pina, Only Lovers Left Alive, Pride and Prejudice, Kill Bill, Harry Potter Series, The Lake House, and many more), I listen and have listened to many different styles of music, some of the artists I listened to recently are Cat Empire, India Arie, Mattafix, Gorillaz, Evermore, Parov Stelar, Chinese Man, Quantic, Guru, Freundeskreis, Fettes Brot, Ohrbooten, Princess Nokia, Noname, System of a Down, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Zaz, DobaCaracol, Łona i Weber

BOOKS: I enjoy reading, but most stuff will not be internationally known. For roadtrips I do enjoy the German audiobooks of the Harry Potter Series, they're very well read and the writing is also great, since even knowing the stories already I love her attention to detail when creating that whole other world for us.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland