CURRENT MISSION

learn how to play the accordeon

ABOUT ME

I am a gentle, down-to-earth person.

I like political discussions, listening to music, sometimes (non-traditional...) dancing, long days, long nights, red wine, unhealthy food, desserts and deserts (they seldom come together, but both are perfect), old GDR (DDR) mopeds, cats, photography and photo exhibitions, empty cities at night, people talking a lot, also people who have a feeling for when its time to stop talking :)

I don't like the fact that people are forced to wear suits (or somehow feel like being forced?), noisy breathing (don't know why but i hate it), quietness in public transportation, noisy breathing in public transportation (aaargggh!), punk and heavymetal music, the absence of cats, white wine

PHILOSOPHY

Never see things black and white (friends sometimes call me a diplomat...). Refusing fundamental religious thinking and dogmatic thinking. Keeping my personal needs low.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

surfing and hosting.... -- what else should I be doing?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Not very much CS experience yet, but definitely a lot of sleeping-on-couch-experiences in general :)

Interests

music! - I love listening to interesting/"challenging" music ... I play piano, double-bass, sometimes guitar. But I'm not a professional - its just for fun!Political theory and its real-life counterpartuniversity stuff - navigation, geodesyof course: traveling.huh? sports?? - no, almost none - except some trekking/biking.

• cats
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• red wine
• white wine
• desserts
• politics
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• metal music
• cycling
• surfing
• skateboarding
• sports
• computer science
• mathematics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Jazz: Nils Petter Molvaer, Keith Jarrett, ESTSome classical Music, mainly J.S.Bach, Chopin, The Hilliard EnsembleSome hiphop-music - but definitely not the gangsta-part of it yawMovies: Stanley Kubrick, Jim JarmushBooks: just non-fiction; I haven't ever found a novel captivating me; don't know why.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Something that really struck me? Being hit by an unfriendly policeman...

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach basic guitar/piano/bass playing.I can share a small but growing knowledge about politics and philosophy.If somebody is interested (......) I have, I guess, some knowledge in mathematics, computer science and geodesy, but I am usually not particularly interested in addressing these topics outside the university.I can, maybe, fix computers or hifi-equipment.I want to learn more about Marxist Theories, the Frankfurter Schule and political theory in general.I drastically want to improve my cooking skills.I want to learn skateboarding / longboarding.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, China, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

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