CURRENT MISSION

being good in my work (Neurorehabiliation, Manual Therapy, Coaching), getting to know foreign cultures/languages/jokes, becoming a better swimmer/ cook

ABOUT ME

TRAVEL: i love to travel, work a lot as a PT specialized in rehabilitation of gait and gait analysis.
LANGUAGES i love to speak in foreign languages (F, E , G, S, sign language small talk). i'd like to learn more (russian, arabic, portuguese, chinese, japans and also to use more humor and poetry be more in the languages i already use) ARTS: cooking, music (jazz, classical, pop mostly but open-minded or alternative pop), playing the piano, new dishes, new wines and spirits, new games (do you know the Jenga game? the game of 6 stones?), non-commercial movies
SPORTS/OUTDOORS: new outdoors/outdoor sports (kayak, diving, hiking, river climbing:), Birdwatching, crabspotting
GENERAL: learning new people, get to know open-minded people

PHILOSOPHY

Fast, Cheap, and Good… pick two. If it’s fast and cheap it wont be good. If it’s cheap and good it won’t be fast. If it’s fast and good it wont be cheap.” Fast, cheap and good… pick 2 words to live by.
...thru Soto Zen Buddhism
...thru Hatha Yoga practice
...trial and error

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

at my place : 2
abroad: 1 (USA, Atlanta)
europe:
germany: 2 (1 coffeemeeting)
switzerland: 2
spain: 2 (1 coffeemeeting)

Interests

TRAVEL: i love to travel, work a lot as a PT specialized in rehabilitation of gait and gait analysis.
LANGUAGES i love to speak in foreign languages (F, E , G, S, sign language small talk). i'd like to learn more (russian, arabic, portuguese, chinese, japans and also to use more humor and poetry be more in the languages i already use) ARTS: cooking, music (jazz, classical, pop mostly but open-minded or alternative pop), playing the piano, new dishes, new wines and spirits, new games (do you know the Jenga game? the game of 6 stones?), non-commercial movies
SPORTS/OUTDOORS: new outdoors/outdoor sports (kayak, diving, hiking, river climbing:), Birdwatching, crabspotting
GENERAL: learning new people, get to know open-minded people

• arts
• poetry
• cooking
• yoga
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• piano
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• kayaking
• scuba diving
• buddhist
• sports
• rock climbing
• swimming
• languages
• sign language

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES/BOOKS: Jim Jarmush, Tom Waits, Paul Auster, Garth Stein
the full Monty Python Flying Circus, TED Talks!, Rosenbergs non-violent communication
MUSIC: a lot of different tastes! Gustavo Lenine (Brasil),Tom Waits, Bach, Marc Ribot, Medeski Marks and Woods, Black Keys, Soundtracks (f.ex. of Pina Bausch)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- talking to the locals of Phi Phi Island (they were living kinda hidden behind the main stream noisy and touristic attractions of the island)
- learning spanish and working in Banos de ague santa in Ecuador and then "daring" to visit the wonderfull country of Colombia
- buying a 220v 120v transformer for my old nokia mobile phone in tokyo (1.5kg!) and traveling with it
- drinking 2 espressos at the conhache café in Madrid feeling like in the movie "limits of control" :)
- the hundreds of crabe (Gecarcinus Lateralis) at Pigs Bay, Cuba, and at Huelva, Espana: amazingly . beautiful.
- the rocks at low tide in Canos de Meca, Andaluzia, Espana
-50 times down the River Reuss Switzerland with my inflatable kayak, 1 time down the River Limmat from Baden (2Meter high waves, unbelievable and not too dangerous)

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach you some languages, how to juggle, ving tsun basic moves, massage, some hatha yoga optimisation tricks, how to cook a cheese fondue/minestrone/graved (raw) salmon,

i always up to share about trips, cultures, biomecanics, art -especially cinema and cooking, and nvc from M.B. Rosenberg or similar stuff.

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Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Cameroon, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Ecuador, Switzerland