Hey there!
My name is Julius, and I'm a 28 year old student from Mannheim, Germany.
I'm quite a novice on Couchsurfing, but had some highly inspiring experiences during my trip through France which were kind of eye-opening to me. To me, it's fascinating that total strangers hook up through some internet platform and exchange a level of trust and good-will that is unfortunately quite lacking in day-to-day life. Therefore, engaging in CS and spreading love, trust and good energy just seems to be the right thing to do, especially when there's so much negativity in our society!!
Moreover, I think CS is a great tool for self-development - to get out of the comfort-zone and the own (political/ideological/whatever) bubble to learn and connect to other ways of life.

Interests

There's so much ... Days are too short!!

Love being in the nature, go hiking, camping, having a nice bonfire, doing some out-door cooking.
Ohyea, cooking is probably my biggest passion. Well, I prefer eating over cooking. Nevertheless, I can get quite hooked into all kind of culinary stuff - ramen noodle soups, indian/asian/middle-eastern cuisine, spices, fermentation, beer brewing, veganizing typical non-vegan meals, tasting different wines till lips and teeth are all red...
I'm quite into music. Love going out for concerts (you name it - rock, funk, jazz, Reggae, ska, metal, punk, ...) or raves (techno - prefer rather dark stuff, but also huge fan of the good ol boi69, psy, trance, dnb, wave).
Not the sportiest human being, but still enjoying to go running, climbing, hiking, and a nice rouns of table tennis.
Quite into board / card / interactive games.

• cooking
• music
• hiking
• camping
• games

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Altin Gün, Khruangbing, Stand High Petrol, Herbie Hancock, Suprise Chef, Thunder Cat, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, CCR, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Police, Wolfmother, Black Sabbath, Parliament, Die Antwoord, Techno, Wave, Trance, DnB

Movies:
Trainspotting, Grand Budapest Hotel, Black Dynamite, The Room, Big Lebowski, Lord of the rings, Samsara, Baraka, all those freakin' good David-Attenborough-narrated BBC documentaries like Planet Earth
... Given that I don't fall asleep while watching

Books:
Dune, Mr. Wind-up Bird, Steppenwolf, Siddartha, Brave New World, Papillon, Game of Thrones, Power of now

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'd love to give you an insight to german culture and share some vegan or vegeterian recipes

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, India, Macedonia, Serbia, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, India