Because I love getting to know the world through its people and their lives, because it gave me the chance to meet lots of wonderful people and build friendships around the world and also in my own town.

Movies: Big Fish, Life Is A Miracle, Mar Adentro, El Milagro de P Tinto, Crimen Ferpecto, Zombie Strippers, Kill Bill, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, Little Miss Sunshine, ... Some favourite directors: Stanley Kubrick, Richard Linklater, Tim Burton, Emir Kusturica, Alex De La Iglesia, Quentin Tarantino, etc ******************************* Music: Looooots of things! But to mention a few: Pez, , Röyksopp, Morcheeba, David Bowie, Faith No More, Morphine, Meshuggah, Sur Oculto and tons of funk, jazz, latin rock, folklore, balkan music, electronic, retro, metal and many more... ******************************* Books: Ender's Game, Crímenes Imperceptibles, Cien Horas con Fidel,Ganz Unten (Günter Wallraff), Foundation Series, Steppen Wolf, 2001: A space odyssey, Almost Everyone's Guide to Economics (J.K. Galbraith), El Nombre de la Rosa, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Gödel-Escher-Bach, ... Favourite writers: Milan Kundera, Isaac Asimov, Herman Hesse,... Recent reads: Homo Faber (Max Frisch), Ignorance (Kundera), A moveable feast (Hemingway), Hectors Reise, Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama,