CURRENT MISSION

To learn German and to come up with an awesome research topic!

ABOUT ME

I would say that I'm very friendly and that I genuinely love people, though I'm a little shy. I am always in a good mood, and harmony is extremely important to me. I am very curious and love learning, and I have a number of unusual (well, my friends and family say they are) interests. I'm the sort of person who ends up doing a whole pile of extra activites because I love to help people, and because I suck at saying no.

I have been studying Linguistics and Classics (Greek and Latin) at the University of Canterbury, and have spent a year at Uppsala Universitet studying Indo-European Linguistics as an exchange student. I have also been learning Old English (not Shakespeare or Chaucer. Much older!) from a retired lecturer.

PHILOSOPHY

Treat everybody with respect and just keep on doing what is important to you.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love to host when I can, and I want my surfers to have a great experience.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It has been very positive so far. I have hosted a great bunch of surfers who have all had quite different outlooks on the world. They have taught me a lot about their countries and about travel in general. By being a host I have also learnt much about being a surfer. I now have a much clearer sense of what I must do to show the derserved respect to my hosts.

Interessen

I'm interested in a lot of things, but Languages (Ancient languages in particular) excite me the most.
I enjoy making music. I play the piano, trumpet and guitar (though all of them, sadly, not that well).

• humanities
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• trumpet
• languages

Musik, Filme und Bücher

When I'm not reading non-fiction, I'm often reading books in the fantasy genre. There are scores of authors in that genre I like, but my favourite would have to be Tolkien. In the crime genre my favourite is Arnaldur Indriðason.

I once listened to a lot of classic rock, but I haven´t listened too much lately. Pink Floyd and Tom Waits are among my favourite groups/artists. I have been delving into folk music a little too. Though I don't really listen to too much metal, I am quite partial to the Faroese metal band, Týr. I also listen to a lot of classical music. My favourite composer is Mendelssohn. For some reason (probably because it is old) I am interested in Renaissance music and have been learning a few Renaissance pieces on the piano.

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

Spent a year studying in Sweden.

Lehren, lernen, teilen

I would love to teach you any of my interests. I probably couldn´t teach you Old English, for example, in two or three days, but I could tell you some interesting things about it. Also, if it´s you goal to learn English, I´d be happy to help.

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Australia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

New Zealand, Sweden

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