CURRENT MISSION

finally achieve long-lasting happiness

ABOUT ME

Most people who meet me say I'm a positive but sometimes a bit melancholic person, but I always try to make the most of meeting new people. Long conversations, the odd glass of (white/red) wine, long walks, and listening to/making mixtapes make me incredibly happy. There are a lot of other things I could write about but I think it's better to learn about each other's interests while talking. So therefore I'll restrict myself to the basics, but before telling you about these, you should now that I'm a pretty restless person.

I'm in love with words - written and spoken - and foreign languages.
I wish I could actually play the guitar, glockenspiel, melodica - right now I do nothing but stare at these instruments, playing the odd melody every once in a while.
There are a lot of things I wish I had done but instead of wasting time regretting that I didn't do them, I try to make the most of now and accomplish the things I put my mind to.

(oh, and another random thing: I'm in love with London and Sweden/Swedish)

PHILOSOPHY

all in all it would be "Every heart I ever met pulsates through my veins."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I offer to show people around in my home town (and wherever it is I'll be living) and keep on talking with my friends about CS. As they say in that Tesco ad: "every little helps."

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far, I'm a real CS-Greenhorn but I'd love to change that soon, especially since I have made great experiences crashing at friend's places, meeting lovely people :)

Interests

Music, Languages, Books, Writing, Letters, Traveling, Films, Mixtaping, Talking, Photography, meeting new people

• writing
• books
• photography
• wine
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Ólafur Arnalds, Arcade Fire, FOALS, Bloc Party, ef, IMMANU EL, ... too many artists I love to list. You can have a look at my LastFM profile instead: http://www.last.fm/user/anke_in_london/

Movies/TV: In my father's den, Fight Club, Tony Takitani, Kops, Adam's Apples, Anders och Måns, Kvarteret Skatan, Babel, Tatort, Kammerflimmern, ...

Books: all by Hermann Hesse, Marcus Birro - Landet Utanför, Daniel Sjölin - Världens Sista Roman, Mankell's Wallander books, Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore/ Norwegian Wood, Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind, ...
(I have a lot of favourite books since I study German literature/cultural studies)

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd gladly teach you some basic German :)
Who knows what it is that we can teach each other? We can learn a lot from other people so I try to not put any label on what it is I can teach.

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United Kingdom