CURRENT MISSION

Live and learn

ABOUT ME

We are a fun and easy-going international couple and we are currently living in Thailand. We love to hear stories about the big, big world but even more so to make the experiences ourselves. Nature, environmental and social issues, reading, discussing, different cultures, own vegetable garden, music,...

PHILOSOPHY

Treat people how you want to be treated.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting people whenever possible and meet people from CS while travelling.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only had very interesting, good and fun experiences so far - always interesting for us to meet people from other cultures, learn from them, give something to them and have a good time together!

Interests

Meet people of this beautiful, crazy planet; have fun, enjoy life, help people, get wiser (and drink beer).

Rob:
music!!! (go and see bands on stage, visit festivals and listen whenever possible)
READING (can´t live without books!)
meditation (Vipassana)
spiritual teachings
sustainable living
quantum physics
permaculture
eco-villages
alternative living
our current economic system and how we could change it to a sustainable one
gardening
sports (do it myself, not watching it)
documentaries (I am a docu-junkie!)
playing my guitar (not too good..)

Tippi:
music
pole dancing
cultures
social issues
cooking (also eating, trying new foods)
gardening
volunteering
eco-villages
alternative living
living self-sufficient
making this world a better place for myself and others

• books
• documentaries
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• meditation
• drinking
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• magic
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• scuba diving
• skydiving
• sports
• physics
• hitchhiking
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Tippi:
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"a thousand splendid suns" Khaled Hosseini
"the kite runner" Khaled Hosseini
"First they killed my father" Loung Ung
"child of the jungle" Sabine Kuegler
Don Juan
"Economic hitman" John Perkins

Rob:
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"Faust" Goethe
"1984" George Orwell
"Brave new world" Aldous Huxley
"The tibetan book of living and dying" Sogyal Rinpoche
"Limits to growth" Don Meadows
"No Destination" Satish Kumar
"First they killed my father" Loung Ung
"Confessions of an Economic hitman" John Perkins
books about plants; gardening
specialized books (spirituality, travel literature, globalization, environment, social issues,...)

our favourite MOVIES:
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(we do not watch many "hollywood-made-movies but love documentaries) - to name just a few:
home
earth
One
the corporation
Am Anfang war das Licht
Darwin´s nightmare
We feed the world
Food Inc.
Der Geist des Geldes
flow
waking life
What the bleep do we know?
the secret
...

Into the wild
blood diamond
LA crash
trade
a mighty heart
rabbit-proof fence
borat
american history X
one flew over the cuckoo´s nest
...

MUSIC we like:
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RISE AGAINST (favourite band for a long time already)

in general -- Rock, Punk-Rock, Ska-Punk, World-music, Reggae, Ska, Metall and more recently psy-trance; generally we are always open to get to know new types of music (everything EXCEPT Techno!)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Rob: Well, basically to be alive is amazing enough...still, there have been some more special moments than others: 10-day-meditation retreat in northeastern Thailand, joined an Ayahuasca-ceremony in Colombia, night-diving with huge sharks at the great-barrier reef

Tippi: quiting my internship after only 2 days and going traveling with a guy I hardly knew - who has become my husband after 3 years; joined an Ayahuasca-Ceremony in Colombia

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH:
How to cook thai food
Gardening
Principles of meditation
Poledance

LEARN:
spiritual teachings
correlations and background information about your home-country
Anything you can teach us is highly appreciated! :-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Laos, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Thailand

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