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Overview

  • 5 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Chinese, French, Swedish
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • letting spring into my home
  • teacher
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

.. getting more connected to people and visitors in my hometown

ABOUT ME

I like the city but being outside catches me more. Sometimes I need to be on my own, but most times I prefer to share with others through discussing or just doing stuff together. Music, people, nature, all kind of weather and just life itself is making me a mostly life enjoying, glad person. I work on not letting me bothering by work and getting stressed by the watch, and society.

PHILOSOPHY

you have always a choice even if it doesnt look like

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've had great couchsurf experiences as a surfer in Copenhagen and Almeria/Granada by getting to know great people and spending good time with them which has been very enriching. Meeting people and to exchange experiences with them is what makes journeys or life in general more colourful.. without others I would not have made the same experiences during my travels in general.
So I`d love to show others the not touristical side of Bremen.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

a few years ago a guy from belgium passed the town I was living in on his way by bike to denmark. He searched a hostel, but there was none. I didn't know of couchsurfing this moment, but we had a free bed, so he stayed at our place. It was a great experience to get to know another person spontaneously and I think couchsurfing.com is the best way to collect more of such good moments.

Interests

music - there should be a soundtrack to life.
I like to be in nature and to move in nature
I like cycling and hiking a lot, but would like to do more sports in daily life.
I like to be with friends and to make new friends
I enjoy lots of different music and like to sing while making music
I enjoy a good book, film, playing board games or just a cup of tea when there is rainy weather outside

  • books
  • singing
  • board games
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • guitar
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • sports

Music, Movies, and Books

movies:
stories about life - sometimes with good music like: garden state, into the wild, absolute giganten, boondock saints, léon, im juli, harold and maude,..

music:
sometimes calm like ben harper
sometimes in memories of youth with tocotronic and pearl jam or weezer
sometimes in the summer mood with tryo
sometimes more electronic with fever ray / the knife
sometimes a wild collection from hip hop over ska to reggae
most times not so easy to put in some written lines

books: The Solitaire Mystery, Lord of the rings, the wheel of time, books by Fred Vargas, I like Watzlawick

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

snorceling with mantas

getting up with the sun in the alps in slowenia

meeting so many totally different persons while travelling in Asia

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you names of some plants and I'm quite patient with people who try to learn a language I can speak.
I'd like to learn sailing.
I want to share nice places I love which are not the ones you can find marked in a map as a sight.

What I Can Share with Hosts

time

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Denmark, France, India, Japan, Mongolia, Philippines, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, Tunisia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Germany, Sweden

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