Mathias Hamann's Photo

Verified Profile

  • Payment verified
  • Phone verified
  • Government ID not verified
  • Address Verified

Not Accepting Guests

  • Last login over 4 years ago

Join Couchsurfing to see Mathias’s full profile.

Overview

  • 61 references 49 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning French, Russian
  • 46, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Social manager working with refugees and homeless people
  • school, life, university, passion
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 100% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I'm in Ho Chi Minh City from January 6th till 9th.

ABOUT ME:

I:
-work with homeless and refugees people in Berlin
-teach rhetorics at the University
-write articles as freelancer journalist e.g. about debating in China:
http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/debattiermeisterschaft-in-china-kritisch-denken-fuer-anfaenger-a-763444.html

-am addicted to reading (50 books a.year)
-collect jokes (really, please bring one)

PHILOSOPHY

Always interested in almost everything besides Krautsalad.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Offer a couch and search for a couch and try to promote CS among friends to host and among newbie surfers to write good couch requests (my first hosts gave me inspiration)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

CS Hosts were always friendly and I learned a lot of them.
CS Guests have been kind and my flatemates liked all of them.

Interests

I collect jokes
I read,
and dance - especially Argentine Tango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX958pBcOfE

and Lindy Hop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vdMZrrBQUg&feature=related

  • dancing
  • tango
  • walking
  • freelancing
  • journalism
  • beaches
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Novels:
John Irving's novels
Non Fiction:
Life and death of democracy by John Keane
Elements of moral philosophy
Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahnemann
Music:
Blind Guardian, Sander van Doorn, Richard Wagner

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Walking on a black beach in Iceland
-watching sunrise in the mountains of Iraq-Kurdistan
-beeing under attack while reporting from Afghanistan
-sitting on the ground of the Umayad Mosque in Damascus at the evening, when the sun was gone from the sky but still left in the stones.

Teach, Learn, Share

tell about Christmas in Afghanistan and the fascination of Tango Argentino

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Botswana, China, Croatia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Philippines, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany

Old School Badges

  • 5 Vouches
  • Pioneer Badge

Join Couchsurfing to see Mathias’s full profile.

My Groups