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Overview
About Me
music (concerts=best)
paper
art (i love printmaking and get extremely excited about Marina AbramoviÃâ¡, Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt (in that order), the Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin, zines, etc.etc.)
dragonflies
riding my bike
travelling (naturally)
queer theory baby!
i'm vegetarian
books
running and yoga
mixing up Spanish and French
kakis
whales
PHILOSOPHY
"das war so geil -
das war mehr als geil.
das war OBER-geil!"
Franzisko Sommer.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
i couchsurfed.
i hosted.
i hang out in the community.
but most of all: i travel!
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I'm still regularly cooking a recipe I got from a CouchSurfer I had in Vancouver, that was three years ago.
I reunited in Germany with CouchSurfers I met in Canada.
Interests
Concerts are pretty sweet and any other cultural stuff like theater, movie theaters, art exhibitions. I love to share meals with friends. I try to live a diversified life.
- arts
- books
- theater
- concerts
- capoeira
- cooking
- vegetarian
- yoga
- running
- traveling
- origami
- music
- cycling
- swimming
Music, Movies, and Books
alltime-favorites are
Kaki King, Beach House, Beirut. Simon and Garfunkel. Blackbird Blackbird, The xx, Cat Power, CocoRosie, Feist, Efterklang. Also love Rae Spoon, Grizzly Bear, Útidúr, Russian Red, Bon Iver...
As for books: Recently I highly enjoyed Haruki Murakami's work. John Irving's Hotel New Hampshire is a favorite. Jonathan Safran Foer ist great.
Also loved Symphony Pathétique, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Buntschatten und Fledermäuse and many more!
As for movies: Jeux d'enfants, XXY, Dancer in the Dark, Hayao Miyazaki movies, Love in Thoughts (Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken), Memento...
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Swimming in the Atlantic on December 6th. :)
Teach, Learn, Share
I am open and interested in pretty much learning anything.
I can show you how to make an origami crane and the best vegetarian stew probably in the world, and how to Jinga! (Capoeira!)
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
Canada, Germany, Spain, United States
Old School Badges
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