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ABOUT ME

We are a couple living together. Miri is from Germany and is studying Law, and Stephen is from the UK, but grew up in New York and works in Finance.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't take life too serious. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Countries we've couch surfed: Uruguay, Argentina, Mallorca, Germany

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Interests

Travelling, Dancing, being outdoors, cooking....

• fish
• books
• singing
• concerts
• oktoberfest
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• cocktails
• marathon
• running
• partying
• drinking
• flying
• gardening
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• juggling
• outdoor activities
• fishing
• scuba diving
• skydiving
• skiing
• baseball
• olympics
• super bowl
• business
• law
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Blow, Brazil, Clockwork Orange, Lassie, The Sound of Music... Desperate Houswives
Music: Villalobos, Hawtin, Karotte, Magda...
Books: Smokescreen, Snowblind, The Mists of Avalon, Harry Potter, Books on CD (while driving cross country)...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This is our list of 100 things we want to do (some already achieved) in the next few years:

Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, Wimbeldon.

Throw a huge party and invite every one of our friends.

DJ at an underground techno party.

Skydive.

Climb the great wall of China.

Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure to use it.

Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.

Watch the launch of the space shuttle.

Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.

Be an extra in a film.

Tell someone the story of our life, sparing no details.

Make love on a forest floor.

Make love on a train.

Learn to rollerblade.

Own a room with a view.

Brew our own beer.

Learn how to take a compliment.

Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.

Grow a beard (only Stephen!)and leave it for at least a month.

Give our mothers a dozen red roses and tell her we love her.

Be a member of the audience in a TV show.

Put our name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.

Send a message in a bottle.

Ride a camel into the desert.

Get to know our neighbors.

Plant a tree.

Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.

Write a fan letter to our all-time favorite hero or heroine.

Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.

Learn to ballroom dance properly.

Eat fish & chips at Harrods in London.

Be the boss (of Miri).

Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally.

Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.

Sit on a jury.

Write a novel.

Help bring the Love Parade to Frankfurt.

Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (ha, ha- done that many times!).

Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich (without ending up in the red cross tent)... tried a few times, but always failed...

Be someone's mentor.

Shower in a waterfall.

Climb to the top of a Egyptian pyramid.

Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.

Teach someone illiterate to read.

Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380.

Spend a night in a haunted house -- alone.

Write down our personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time.

See a lunar eclipse.

Spend New Year's in an exotic location.

Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.

Experience weightlessness.

Sing a great song in front of an audience.

Invent a cocktail.

Drive across America from coast to coast.

Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.

Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.

Fly a plane.

Sleep under the stars.

Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.

Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!

Go wild in Rio during Carnival.

Spend a whole day reading a great novel.

Visit the North and South poles.

Learn to juggle with three balls.

Drive on the Autobahn.

Find a job we love.

Spend Christmas on the beach drinking caipirinhas.

Overcome the fear of failure.

Raft through the Grand Canyon.

Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.

Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.

Grow a garden.

Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.

Invent something.

Accept yourself for who you are.

Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.

Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Go up in a hot-air balloon.

Attend one really huge rock concert.

Travel on the Transiberian railway.

Join a flash mob.

Give to a charity -- anonymously.

Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas.

See Aurora The Northern Lights.

Go diving with great white sharks in a shark cage.

Float on the dead sea.

Make love on the kitchen floor.

Go deep sea fishing and eat the catch.

Create our own web site.

Visit the Maldives.

Study and use the Kama Sutra.

Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.

Visit a monastery in Tibet.

Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.

Donate Blood.

Ski a double-black diamond run.

Learn to bartend.

Run a marathon.

Participate in La Tomatina tomato fight.

Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.

Teach, Learn, Share

how to roll inside out

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Gibraltar, Japan, Mexico, Russian Federation, Taiwan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Kuwait, Lebanon, United Kingdom, United States

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