CURRENT MISSION

Understand the Franconian accent.

ABOUT ME

I am working as a Praktikant at Siemens during my third year of University, having recently completed a seven-month stint in France teaching. Reasonable hours leave me lots of time for meeting new friends and exploring this charming Bundesland. I like to think I'm quite easy to get along with, talkative and interested. I have an innate inability to take anybody or anything seriously.

PHILOSOPHY

Something I once read on a birthday card:

"Oswald enjoyed expanding his intellectual capacity, almost as much as he enjoyed licking his bollocks"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am quite new to coachsurfing, but would really like to gain new experiences in what I see as an exciting global phenomenon. At the moment I can't offer up a couch, but would be delighted to meet like-minded people for coffee (or beer). I hope that some day soon a kind soul might give me refuge during my own travels.

Interests

I am a media sponge and I do quite like talking about politics in a fluffy uninformed sort of way. My degree is in Literature, though I'd quite like to be a journalist and have written for a few local and national publications. I'm also pretty into music (especially classical), art galleries, theatre (I produce plays back home), film, walking around cities until my feet hurt. Making and drinking excellent tea.

• arts
• literature
• beer
• coffee
• walking
• drinking
• politics
• music
• communications
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Um, 20th Century French and German writers like Kafka, Brecht, Proust, surrealist poetry; theatre - Ionesco, Antonin Artaud, Peter Shaffer, Shakespeare. Virginia Woolf, Philip Larkin, Thom Gunn, Vladimir Nabokov, Martin Amis and J M Coetzee.
Beethoven, Bowie and Billy Holiday.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can make tea like a proper Englishman.
I once put a blackboard up on the wall with only a frying pan and a fork.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany