CURRENT MISSION

sunny side up

ABOUT ME

hi- my name is martina, I still studying after all these years -and a lot more and I live in Berlin, which is a great place to live, and the city that I do myself still enjoy very much to discover new places and aspects of living there now since three years. I am currently working on my dissertation, and I did a lot of traveling doing my research. This inspired me to join the couchsurfingn network - although it is too late for me to benefit from it as a guest for that time (At this moments, I am staying at a not so charming cheap hotel) as I think it is great to enable poeple to travel and to meet people in another city or place.
So some things about me (and this is always odd, I find); I am a open, friendly, funny, unconventional, social, and open-minded person. I am very interested in social issues and political questions. I like to be with other people, work together and organize things together, I love dancing and music (but i am not very good in intergrating that to my daily live, necessarily...), i like watching good movies, and sometimes stupid-funny tv shows...; i love to go to interesting cultural events like exihibitions and I like going for walks, going to cafés to have a piece of cake and to read..or to hang out in a bar with friends. I love going outdoors, e.g. spending my vacaction hiking or doing bike tours. I usually ride my bike to places. I also like to cook and to shop good food, which is probably more dangerous for me to 'waste' my money on than things like fashion.
I live together with my partner rob in an apartment in Berlin Neukölln.

PHILOSOPHY

join the socialist-hedonist international

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would like to host poeple and I look forward to meeting poeple to meet and that let me stay at their places as well.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Not on Couch Surfing itself but I lived with many differet poeple and we had a lot of guests and I always enjoyed that.

Interests

social sciences, politics,
literature, psychology,

cooking, hiking, traveling, outdoor activities, painting, music, parties, friends, movies.

• literature
• fashion
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• partying
• shopping
• politics
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• socializing
• painting
• music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• swimming
• history
• psychology
• social science
• tours

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: From Asian Dub Foundation via Bernadette la Hengst, Ladytron, and Mano Negra to Amanda Palmer.
Movies: I love good thrillers and excessive educational 3hr PBS documentaries.
Books: many different, liked Edgar Hilsenraths books, last book that really impressed me was Nicole Krauss: Man walks into a room.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

the most amazing: hiking up to a mountain top, being up there, enjoying the view, the fresh air...
or just sitting in a park on a little hill, watching the sunset over the city

Teach, Learn, Share

Society, History and POlitics Berlin and Germany,
social movements
immigration

outdoor activities in berlin (biking, hiking, swimming)