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Overview
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