CURRENTLY
Enrolled as Master Student in Management Studies at Stockholm University.

ABOUT ME
I was born and grew up in Germany, but since I finished my A-levels in 2002 I left my home country and started traveling. The last 12 years I spent in South-America (Brazil, Bolivia), Spain (Galicia), England (Bath), France (Aix-en-Provence), Italy (Venice), Netherlands (Amsterdam), China (Beijing), Turkey (Antalya), the Caribbean (Trinidad & Tobago), European Rivers (project "Man on the river", where we rowed and sailed from London to Budapest) and Sweden (Stockholm).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I participated twice in CouchSurfing exchanges.

The first time was in 2009 when I did a project about music of the Mediterranean Sea, called "Canto Mediterraneo" (www.cantomediterraneo.com). My friends and I we went with a sailing boat from Venice to Istanbul and made interviews to musicians that were living in the countries we passed by. Many contacts for this project I was able to make thanks to CS and I learned a lot from our interviews.

The second time I participated in CouchSurfing was in 2010, when I travelled home from Turkey to Germany by train, after having done a European Voluntary Service in Antalya for a half a year.

Both times, doing CouchSurfing was a very valuable experience for me and I hope to have many others followed.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have travelled a lot, but only little with Couchsurfing. Last year I actively travelled with Couchsurfing from Turkey to Germany after I finished my European Voluntary Service in Antalya. Sleeping at some "strangers" place scared me to a certain extent and still I am quite cautious in my choice of people to contact, to be honest...

But till now I was always very lucky with the people I got to know, I met many nice and warm hearted persons. I hope it will stay like this.

Interests

Learning!

There is a long list of things I need to learn more about...

How the world is set up: politics, world economy, history, religion, biology/physics/chemistry (at these I´m really bad, a "lost case" so to say), astronomy, philosophy.

My pc.

How to sail a boat. I have the "captains licence" (theory) but still i´m not able to guide a boat on my own.

Journalism: interview techniques, video cut, audio cut. Speaking in front of a camera without feeling ashamed.

Music and dancing: learning harmonica is great for traveling + the guitar for campfires, I sang in the choir and played the violin but lost all my abilites... I´d like to learn how dj´s create their music and what a "midi" is. I think salsa is very beautiful, tango is sexy. I am impressed by street-dance and hiphop dancers. Rock n roll looks fun to me. I admire persons with strong body perceptions.

• dancing
• tango
• boating
• politics
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• violin
• sailing
• astronomy
• biology
• chemistry
• history
• journalism
• languages
• physics
• religion
• science
• study abroad
• tourism
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

"Sorry" from Kyteman is a beautiful among many others.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I wouldn`t say that it is "amazing", but having lived outside Germany for such a long time gave me the chance to experience many different things and learn a lot.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know some things about European projects as I´ve done Erasmus, Leonardo and EVS so far. I could tell basic things about making videos or creating a "basic" website (I am absolutely not a computer scientist!). If you like languages I can explain my method of approaching a new language.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cabo Verde, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, French Polynesia, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Macedonia, Malaysia, Martinique, Norway, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Serbia, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Virgin Islands, British, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bolivia, Brazil, China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Turkey