CURRENT MISSION

.. doing a kind of survival camp ..

ABOUT ME

I love to travel and to live abroad. I love other cultures, foreign languages, exotic food, good meals. I like to have good conversations, I love to meet people althought I'm not outgoing at that point. I'm easily annoyed by superficial talks and by people who think they are very interesting and awfully good looking. I´m honest, open-minded, a quality that I appreciate a lot with others, emotional, impulsive, addicted to the dolce vita and my key word is PASSION! Love it or leave it!

PHILOSOPHY

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." (Mark Twain)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

hosted and couchsurfed a few times in the past, knew and met a lot of interesting people through CS on the cs-events in Montreal and S. petersburg.
You may wonder that I'm pretty an oldie here on CS and although I have not had that many hosts. That's right, I did not abuse of CS ;) I love the idea of emerging completely in the new culture so much that i have often lived with families (so no CS), for one year I traveled a lot for work (staying in hotels) and since 1,5 years that I am fixed in Berlin I live in a tiny flat with only one room without possibility for accomodation.
I am not someone who abuses of the hospitality of someone or who lives on the costs of the others,I hate this kind of people!
I am usually always there for advices and if I have time also up for a coffee or a glass of wine.
I would love to practice more CS in future.. Once I will have changed my workhours.

Interests

music, dancing, opera, culture (+ food culture!), lying loughing on the floor, looking deeply in someone's eyes, boattrips, sports (running and cycling in the nature) travelling, a walk in the mountains and diving afterwards in a limpid, cold lake, buying a lot of books that seem interesting and don't have time to read them, eat well, get to know people, transgress out-dated moral and social norms, be pissed about dishonest people. I also like being with persons I really love and to be silent - to be close and to enjoy the silent, non verbal communication which is not embarassing.

• culture
• books
• dancing
• dining
• wine
• coffee
• running
• traveling
• socializing
• survival
• music
• opera
• cycling
• backpacking
• camping
• scuba diving
• sailing
• sports
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I love music - nearly all kinds. find out.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A backpacking trip through Mexico in 2008, startin in Mexico City and going south for oaxaca, San Cristobal and the beatiful Chiapas region where I swom in between little waterfalls, where I was accomodated in cabanas in the jungle, then crossed the Usumancita river for a small little town in Guatemala, took the morning school bus there to get direction Flores, swom again in the beautiful lake there .. so far, won't tell you the whole trip ;) It's only one of the amazing things I keep in my mind. But more than "events", "Sights" and "places (to be)", I consider the people I meet, the person I travel with so that at the end the place is not THAT important ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Germany, Italy