CURRENT MISSION

"Thought is wonderful, but adventure is more wonderful still." Oscar Wilde

ABOUT ME

I'm a 24 year old medical student, born and raised in Berlin. I lived in England studying at the University of Warwick and did an internship in London over the summer. Different cultures fascinate me. I used to play the piano and guitar, sang in choirs and a band, did athletics and football and debating. I like swimming in seas and lakes, a nice walk or bike tours, and learning about everything...
I have a passion for helping people - I was a consultant for 180dc, a pro-bono student consultancy, i.e. the aim is to help organisation doing more good.
I love to cook with a bunch of friends and have some long conversations accompanied by a nice bottle of wine.
I also like open-airs in Berlin, good films, music and books, festivals, concerts, and I'm always up for going to museums. I like virtues, such as commitment, tolerance, respect and honesty.

PHILOSOPHY

What I noticed during my year abroad is that people are very similar. Every human wants the same basic things - to connect, to love, to be loved, to be happy, to laugh, to experience, to progress, to share. I would love to see more people embracing that people are 'global citizens' rather than isolating themselves in terms of nationality, religion or any other exclusive subgroup. I don't think getting along with people has to be as difficult as people or governments make it. I think seeing yourself as ‘citizens of the world’ could overcome the inherent exclusiveness of nationality/religion. Besides that, I think cultural dialogue - i.e. being curious and trying to understand people outside your social bubble - is crucial and I learnt how subjective everything I'd ever been taught was. That realisation helped me to think a bit more critically, always having back in mind "I live in a social bubble" and made me getting to know more different views.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Exchange!

Interests

Like to keep healthy through running, sometimes meditation and enjoying good food. I like the summer, the sea(!!), spending time with family and friends, long phone conservations, hot green tea and a good book, listening and making music, flea markets, creativity, and productive stress.

• books
• concerts
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• wine
• running
• meditation
• clubbing
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• cycling
• hiking
• soccer
• swimming
• religion
• tours
• lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC

Way too much...I like acoustic, electro; house, occasional dub step and drum and base when going out. Here are some of my favourites:
Air
Baths
Beach House
The Beatles
Beirut
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Bon Iver
Bonobo
Bright Eyes
Caribou
The Cranberries
Damien Rice
Feist
Frightened Rabbit
Jack Johnson
James Blake
James Brown
JET
Johnny Cash
Joy Division
Katie Melua
The Kills
The Kooks
Lykke Li
Massive Attack
Metronomy
Noah And The Whale
Norah Jones
Nosaj Thing
Nouvelle Vague
Pupkulies & Rebecca
Ratatat
The Shins
Sufjan Stevens
Washed Out
The xx

FILMS

All movies by Alfred Hitchcock (Rope or vertigo)
Good Will Hunting
Control
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Et Dieu… crea la femme (And God Created Woman)
Fitzcarraldo
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Piano
Oldboy
The Sixth Sense
Jenseits der Stille
The Dreamers
Pride and Prejudice
Black Swan
Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Das Leben der Anderen
Requiem for a Dream
Rain Man
Slumdog Millionaire
Lost in Translation

BOOKS BY

Jostein Gaarder ("Sofies Welt")
Hans Christian Andersen
Brothers Grimm
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Jane Austen
Henning Mankell
Franz Kafka
Astrid Lindgren

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I lived in Canada on Vancouver Island for 5 month during high school and I studied and worked in England (Warwickshire and London) for a year.

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH

- Berlin secret places or German language

LEARN

- Showing me how they see the world/life
- New recipes
- Learning what I don't yet realise I don't know

SHARE

- Travel experience

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, England, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Germany, United Kingdom