CURRENT MISSION

crazy soprano-singer exploring europe

ABOUT ME

I love...
... singing, singing, singing, singiiiiiiiiiiing!!!!!!
... baroque music, especially french!
... my friends!
... being independant: my drill and my fantastic toolbox!!!
... showing macho-men that women can handle a drill!
... good food!
... children - unless they give me their buggs!!!(I'm still a big child!)
... animals!(I'm not an animal!)
... making crazy and funny things!
... banana splitt!
... italian food!
... the italian language!
... speak(british)English!
... foreign languages and dialects in general
... Harry Potter,
... Zen,
... travelling and coming back home
... having a picnic in a park
... walking in the nature
... cold showers!! Brrrr! Aahh! ;-)
... swimming in cold lakes or sea!!
... Sunglasses
... candlelight
... Roitea Orange-Cinnamon with milk or better: with cream
... talking, talking, talking to any people
... people from foreign countries
... writing loooong e-mails to my friends

PHILOSOPHY

Le trop d'attention au danger fait le plus souvent qu'on y tombe. La Fontaine

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm interested in travelling and knowing new people from all over the world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None!!! Will have have my first couchsurf next week, when I'm going to London! ..... 14.09.08: Came just home from London a few days ago. Great!!! Was hosted by Johanna, a very friendly person, who has in so many regards the same taste as me! She was an excellent guide through the town! I am very happy that my first cs experience has been such nice one! 18.10.08: recieved Leti and Cate from Italy hwo came at my place to work at Francfort Book Fair! They were both really lovely persons! Such a pitty that we were so much busy all 3!!! 5.11.08: coming back from London: stayed again with my super-host Johanna! She's so kind! Will see her again in Dec! :)) Look forward to...

Interests

Music Music Music
especially baroque music (nearly all french, Bach, Handel, Telemann, Vivaldi, D.Scarlatti), classic (Haydn, Mozart, Beethven ), (romantic) vocal-music (Songs by Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, Pfitzner, Fauré, Debussy, Poulenc, Lilli Boulanger, Cécile de Chaminade), piano-music, symphonies by Bruckner and Mahler (performed on historical instruments! WOW!)
salsa, buena vista social club, bodo wartke,
french chanson: barbara, moustaki, brassens, "les frères jacques", "le facteur", "les bléros de ravel" = french groups!!,
articolo 31, gospel, jazz, swing, sister rosetta tharpe, oldies of the 60ties

Arts Arts Arts
painters: Rubens, Kranach, Degas, Mannet, Monet, Renoir, "Der blaue Reiter", Gauguin, Braque, Mâtisse, Kandinsky, Seurat, Hopper, my favorite: My brother gerd kitabo!!! :))
sculpters: Henry Moore, Rodin, Camille Claudel

Freinds Friends Friends

I enjoy talking, loughing, having nice meals (either at home or outside) but don't expect me going to loud and smoky parties! I like to go out in nice restaurants and sometimes I go dancing (only I find good balcan music - Partizani!!)

• animals
• arts
• writing
• books
• singing
• dining
• italian food
• picnic
• yoga
• walking
• partying
• drinking
• clubbing
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• piano
• swimming
• dialects
• languages
• tourism
• lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

music: see below!

books: generally I prefer non fictional books:
at the moment I'm reading about old french and
Johann Joachim Quantz: about ornamentation in
baroque music... I also enjoy reading biogra-
phies. Madonna, Obama, Handel
last novel I've read:
Somerset Maugham, Theatre
Books on Zen and philosophy or religion:
Eugen Herrigel, Zen in der Kunst des
Bogenschießens
Graf Dürkheim: Hara

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm ...
.. a native french speaker
.. a singer
.. a lover of sushi
.. trying to do yoga daily > could teach you all this!!
I'd like to..
...improve my English
...and Spanish
...and Italian
...learn Portuguese
...learn about and foreign traditions, food etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany