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  • 36 references 24 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Swiss German; learning Croatian, English, French, Swedish, Thai
  • 34, Male
  • Member since 2011
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

¡Would jump for joy if he gets some new requests! saving food, sharing happiness. Asking me what's the real life? whats real? When you come around I would ask you about your life experience, ask for advice. You know, I am who I am, but I like to get influenced of other people!

ABOUT ME

be Lilebror!
its swedish and easy to understand, it means "little brother". I really like Sweden, not only because most of the american people think Switzerland is Sweden and reverse. No, I chose this name, because it's my dream to talk in swedish one time, I have a little brother and may I can be your little brother when I'm visiting you or when you're visiting me :-)

be different!
I dont like the ordinariness, the normal thing.. So may because that I've long hair and not really with a cut, but hmm, there are of course also other reason for that, my hairdresser died some years ago, and thats sadly not a stupid excuse. And maybe the life is a pendelum swing. But not only the hair thing should be different, I love person who try things out. Is it wearing special fashion, travelling to places which most of the people dont know or is it come around with couch surfing ;)
Be unique and alternative!

My Thinking!
I try to get to the bottom of everything.

About me!
I'm male, living in Switzerland, 24 years old and I feel every second of my life in my bones. (But who know, who really knows how old he/she is?) I mean there passed more than 772'940'544 seconds, since my mom said hello the first time, Tick, tack, tick, tack, like an swiss watch, why the hell did sb invented the time. I love the sentence "you have watches, but we have time" Let's reinvent us beyond the time! Well, I think I'm an old man! I was the 5'227'332'024th person alive on Earth. (blabla, but check it out yourself: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515 and its dangerous, in the case, that it reduces people to a number) Do you know that more than 80 billion person have lived since history began and now more than 7 billions. And the amazing thing is, you "know" 80% of them over three hands. Believe it or not.
Its a I normally wear a hat, a cap or somethings other on my head, may because I'm afraid of loosing my hair. Even its not actually the problem, I think hey, when it will arrive, I'll definitly have a big collection of headpieces. Yes, may I collect them, its just easy to shop some of them... Fashion, what's that? I'm bad in shopping tours. Maybe the importanst thing I can say about me, because self-definition is and was one of the hardest thing in my long life, is that I cant hate anybody, of course there are things or somebodys I dislike, but it has nothing do to with hate, Oh yeah all and everybody has also good parts, for sure! I'm not an city guy, because till now I was living in the country, but I love to visit cities, the life there is such different, more international, dynamic and varied, although I enjoy the quite country life. My friends say I'm sometimes crazy, could be ;-) the time is a big thing in my life, I have always a dearth of it...

be a "student" forever!
Im going to study at an university not until next year, but I can already say now, I wanna never lose the studying thing, I think I can always learn something new. Again and yet again!

I love doing the dishes! Really, has somethings Meditatives (thats a german word).

You are never alone.

PHILOSOPHY

Real friends are getting in contact with you in good times and bad times, not only when somethings bad happened.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

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COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing is a place where fantastic people come together!

January 2011: Sadly not one, my lame excuse: I'm a freshman! :D

02.02.2011, I've got a little experience about cs, I went to a cs meeting in Basel two days ago and met really nice person!

24.02.2011, first experience with couchsurfing in Berlin, better it couldnt be! what a dream start :)

28.04.2011-01.05.2011, second experience in Versailles, good french time, nice food, special nice people (amazing cs group there) just a great time! Paris et Versailles je t'aime!

20.05.2011-22.05.2011, thirth experience, this time in London, was the best idea to surf a couch before going to the host family. Wonderful start in London, cs is great. An other couch surfer, which I met in Versailles recommended me this place/host! :)

17.07.2011-19.07.2011, fourth experience, in Dublin, where I and a friend, Mathias Zwhalen, started our uk-trip. We stayed at a wonderful central place, went out twice (had our best burger ever on sunday, best party ever on monday!) Perfect host again! Dublin is great, drink up some guinness ;D

24.07.2011-26.07.2011 fifth experience, at Newcastle, where we stayed a night with some couch surfers from America and London and we extended a extra night there, this time just with our lovely host from Portugal :) We had amazing time there, with a lot of fun and good food!

26.07.2011-27.7.2011, sixth experience, still at the uk-trip, this time in Bristol. In this lovely city we had a wonderful host with the best night city sightseeing by foot.

seventh experience, Bangkok
eight experience, Chang Mai
night experience, Kuala Lumpur
tenth experience, Australia
eleventh experience, NZ, nearly
twelfth experience, Stuttgart
thirteenth experience, Leipzig
fourteenth experience, Dresden
fifteenth experience, Heidelberg

sometimes I'm joining the weekly meeting here in Basel at "Unternehmen Mitte" or somewhere else at summer.

Surfers at my place,
I september 2012, Magenta from NZ (Auckland)
II october 2012, Leslie from Germany (Bochum)
III october 2012, Didi from Germany (& Zurich)

... and counting. I got a Polaroid camera in Thailand just for my lovely surfers. And there are still many unused films left.

Interests

I've got a lot.. :)
listen all kind of music
play the trompet
cook vegan
read books / newspapers / magazines / history books
write poetry, letters or just play with the words
do and watch almost every kind of sport
playing cards
football: Chelsea FC!, Real Madrid, Inter Mailand, St. Pauli and the referee thing (when I talk, think, talk again and rethink about football, it distances me from it more and more: pure chauvinism, or not?
fashion, second hand
art, work at a contemporary photography gallery.
travel around, increasingly regional
laugh
savour semiluxury food without having it to central - we have sufficient other and better amusement.
meet new people
avoid unnecessary consume, what means almost everyone.
talking about everything
bake/cook always somethings new
cook lunch and ask everybody for this lunch
save and share food
question everything, even my new changed habits!
do high fives (gender-segregated :D)
draw with the light
creat and be part of challenges

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  • arts
  • books
  • poetry
  • fashion
  • photography
  • festivals
  • dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • baking
  • vegan
  • partying
  • drinking
  • shopping
  • news
  • movies
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • music
  • surfing
  • sports
  • soccer
  • history
  • tours
  • sightseeing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: I have my favourit five, which is fix, and actually I found the number 6, but may he is to beat! (outdated!)
We can talk about my favourit five and I'm interesting in your top list! I own somethings to this person who can change my Top 5 list, challenge accepted? ;)

My absolut favourite soap is "How I met your mother" just awesome and legen.... wait for it... wait for it... dary, legendary! :D

an other I really like is "King of Queens" and one more: "Scrubs", so yeah, I love to laugh a lot :)

This isnt my Top 5 list, but some other movies I like and recently saw:
"Exit through the gift Shop", "Something's Gotta Give", "Black Swan", "Definitely, Maybe", "Friends with benefits", "Station Agent", "Sons of Norway" (Hippie father and punk son), "No Country for an Old Men" (fantastic Javier Bardem "Let's go in your room" smile and nice "moustached" cowboy josh Brolin), "Home" and "Sister" (by Ursula Meier, surprisingly two good swiss movies) "Pulp Fiction" and "Django Unchained" by legend Quentin TaraTaraTara(ntino). Intouchables (trés touchant!). 12 Angry Men (12 Geschworenen; what a superb movie!)

I like movies which give you to think about it. But sometimes are easy ones also okay!

Music: checking my itunes: The Coral, Muse, Take That, Kings of Leon, the cribs, Marina & the Diamonds, Nickelback, the Killers, Kings of Convenience, the kooks, Samy Deluxe, Francis Cabral, David Gray, Train, Frames, the fray, die ärzte, the roots, kasabian, aventua, matisyahu, doves, kate nash, jonny cash, seether, eminem, the script, clueso, lifehouse, maroon 5, james morrison, paolo Nutini, 30 Seconds to Mars, Christmas Songs (haaha) two door cinema club, snow patrol, one republic, radiohead, rumer, jupiter jones,
foals, jason mraz, lostprophets, three day grace and many, many more! I dont care about which kind of music it is, but it should be great... Point. ;-)

I dont like to listen house, techno and such stuff, but to do party with this music, thats okay.

books: I love to read, sadly I dont take a lot of time to do that.. But when I start to read a book, I cant put it away. I like to read crime fiction, most of them are written from Sweden authors. Henning Mankell, Hakan Nesser, Stieg Larsson.

worst movie ever: the bounty hunter or Der Kautions-Cop

books of W. G. Sebald

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I think I had some really exciting moments in my life, but was means fantastic? Something what changed my life?

Have many great travel experience, I came arround the world when I was four, I was in NZ, sadly I can't remember anything about this trip, but the desire of travelling was born! One great experience I want to share with you, it was in the USA, Montana, where I slept in a teepee closer to grizzly bears and pumas than to the next civilication, that was thrilling and absoluty an unforgettable liberty!

Somethings other what could go under fantastic is that I was a part of a Tibet Festival where Dalai Lama was there and talking to thousand of people. It was very inspiring and affected me deeply!

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach.
taking pictures, speaking swiss german, baking some stuff, dancing stupidly

Learn.
speaking swedish and french, how to use a phone, partying your style, baking and cooking your style

Share.
smiles, pictures, interests, bake tipps, good time and good humour, music, styles

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Switzerland

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