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Overview

  • 14 references 10 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Bulgarian, French, Spanish
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Not really a student but something like it. Also working.
  • Working on my M.A.
  • From Potsdam
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About Me

music (concerts=best)
paper
art (i love printmaking and get extremely excited about Marina Abramović, 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

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