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I live together with Markus, we are married since 2009 and are looking forward to welcoming guests in our flat! I am forty (born 1976) and he is sixtythree years old. He`s from switzerland an I came here due to him. We live in a beautiful surrounding. Our flat ist in the middle of the village of Hombrechtikon. Hombrechtikon lies near the lake of zurich - you can see the mountains with their snowy heads. There are many possibilities for having a nice walk around through meadows, hills, forest. There ist a lake in the midst of beautiful landscape for swimming only 10 minutes from our place, the lützelsee. I myself work many hours a day as gardener - so we will meet only in the evenings / on sunday. Markus works two days a week and has more time to share with you. He only speaks a little english, that`s important to know! Markus has worked thirty years on the zurich airport as airplane-truckdriver. He still likes to drive and has the licence to drive everything from motorcycle to bus and truck. Apart from that, he loves animals and he is a magician.
Courant en Allemand
Courant en Anglais
Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing
I want to - meet new people & learn to know different ways of living and beeing. - connect, talk, share our home - share what`s alive in us. I like to welcome people in our home, and, if you like, to cook & eat together and to show you around in the hills of the "Zürcher Oberland" (that`s how this region is called). I am looking forward to stay with people, why travelling, becauce it means connecting to a place and people in a deeper way.
Musique, films et livres
I like to read generally: to plunge inside other people`s worlds. Some Books I really liked: Harry Potter, shantaram, the lord of the rings, the memory of running by Ron MacLarty, books of Fred Vargas and Walter Satterthwait. Reinhard Mey, a-capella music from the King`s Singers and the comedian harmonist to the wise guys, sometimes klezmer and classical music, folk - in short: music, which is skilfully made by voice and hand. Some movies I liked: Dead poets society, Much ado about nothing by Kenneth Brannagh, More than honey and We feed the world.
Une chose incroyable que j'ai faite
I made a sabbatical in 2005, travelling in summer as whoofer in england and working on the stage of the goetheanum in Dornach / Switzerland.
Enseigner, apprendre, partager
I just found a saying from Ghandi, I like very much: - Live as if you were to die tomorrow - Learn as if you were to live forever I can share most of all knowledge about the art of storytelling and also the art of breathing / voice-work. I am still learning more and more about agriculture and vegetable-growing, biodynamics, permaculture and like to have an exchange of ideas about that. I am also still learning the art of nonviolent communication and it`s a pleasure to talk about that too, if someone is interested.
Ce que je peux offrir à mes hôtes
Cooking, Stories, Visions, Ideas, Experiences, Silence, Joy, Grief... whatever seems appropriate for us in the moment.
Mes centres d'intérêt
My big five for life (the most important things, I want to do): A - Agriculture in community: connecting growers and consumers in solidarity, trust, appreciation (CSA) L - Living words: to tell stories, inciting the imagination, creating a world inside us, inspiring to evolve ourselves I - Intercropping Garden: to create a forest-intercropping-community garden (permaculture) V - Vital food & ecosystem: to care for the soil, the plants, the animals and men in a biodynamic way of agriculture E - Empathic and self-conscious communication: connecting to our needs and finding solutions fitting for the well-beeing of everyone (nonviolent communication / Marshall Rosenberg)