CURRENT MISSION

Working hard and playing more.

ABOUT ME

I'm a 24-year-old psychology student / wedding photographer living in Sweden – namely, in Linköping or Uppsala and more often than not, on a train in between the two. I like people, cakes, books, photography, massive vocabularies, quirky clubs, Wikipedia, colourful cocktails, and any combination of the aforementioned. I'm a normal human being, and just like all other human beings, I'm interesting if you take interest. Easy as pie. If you're a wedding photography geek, or you just want to know if I'm real – and I won't blame you – you can find my photography stuff at http://voncederwald.se.

PHILOSOPHY

Always do the thing that takes you in the direction you want to go even if it's challenging, scary or hard, and the rest will follow. It goes for running, eating, loving, travelling and everything else that makes life worthwhile. Always be honest. Always be open. Definitely never start your morning without coffee.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm fairly new to all of this as of yet. I'd love to host people once my living situation is a little less nomadic, but for now I'm super excited to see some of your lovely faces out in the world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None (!) as of yet. This truly needs to change.

Interests

Photography, music, cooking, art, psychology, wine, good books, great books, even better books, minimalist running. I listen a lot to Radiolab. It's pretty freaky actually.

• arts
• books
• photography
• cooking
• wine
• cocktails
• coffee
• running
• clubbing
• traveling
• music
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Books I relish: Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann. The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen. Everything I Possess I Carry With Me by Herta Müller. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. And a little delight for you Swedes out there: Eterneller by Victor Johansson and Det var ur munnarna orden kom by Mirja Unge.

Music is such a fluid thing, but right now I listen to a lot of Future Islands, Lykke Li, Highasakite, Basia Bulat and London Grammar. I'm not going to bore you with more names, but I will make you a mixtape if you ask. Or a Spotify playlist. I mean, they're the same if you don't count charm.

As for movies: The Fountain, Weekend, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Man From Earth. Anything Wes Anderson. I saw Breathe In at the Stockholm Film Festival in November and I still can't stop thinking about it – so, that one.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It's really hard to choose, but I like the small moments, so I'll go with this: Standing in the top bit of Teufelberg, where you can see all of Berlin in the distance and every little sound you make echoes against the partially torn fabric. It really can't be explained. Go there (even if you have to admit defeat in getting over the fence and end up paying the weird guard type people seven euros. It's totally worth it).

Teach, Learn, Share

I know fair amounts of any radical behaviorist theory or therapy – hit me up if you're interested in ACT, FAP, FACT, DBT, or RFT, among others. I kind of like Skinner a lot. Weirdly, I know quite a lot of Swedish (it's not weird at all).

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Sweden, United States