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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
only one for a long time: how can we create peace and understanding among and between us?
ABOUT ME
Sometimes hilarious, sometimes rebellious, sometimes thoughtful, sometimes workaholic, sometimes poetic, sometimes sporty (walking, cycling outdoor!), sometimes musical (singing, dancing) , sometimes philosophical, sometimes angry (about inequality, poverty, fundamentalist views), sometimes distracted, sometimes focused = a human being
PHILOSOPHY
strive to understand my fellow human beings, improve tolerance and oppose oppression.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I am a
- questioning
- debating
- creating
- listening
- experiencing
human being who believes in equality and sharing.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Have had many visitors and enjoyed each stay enormously
Interests
MUSIC, the big one, especially Gil Scott Heron, Jamie Cullum, Sting, Jonny Lang, Rolling Stones, Angie Stone, India Arie etc. but also Lang Lang, and some classical music
DANCING: great way to empty the mind and get exhausted
READING: I love all sorts of literature: from Goethe to Rilke to Grass to Enzensberger , my German stuff, to Peter Abrahams (RSA), Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), to Tsitsi Ndangarembwa (Zimbabwe) to Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens and Noam Chomasky and Arundhati Roy ...from Mohamed Hanif to Toni Morrisson to Yasmina Khadra....the list is really long!
PHILOSOPHY: Bertrand Russel, and the old guys from greece (Sokrates, Platon,Aristoteles) but also Hanna Arendt, Judith Butler,and the German lot: Schopenhauer,Kant , Hegel)...
- animals
- books
- literature
- poetry
- singing
- dancing
- cooking
- walking
- reading
- music
- classical music
- outdoor activities
- cycling
- languages
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: The Hunting Party, Richard Gere and Terrence Howard
Music: Jonny Lang (We can change the world) and India Arie, Gil Scott Heron
Books: The magic of reality (Richard Dawkins)
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Namibia: walking involuntarily in the desert for 8 hours following an accident and feeling no fear and survived.
Morocco: watching the stars at night in the desert - absolutely amazing
Danube: cycling along the danube
Zimbabwe: a morning drive in the Hwange national park...see the animals awake: breathtaking.
Teach, Learn, Share
Learn: improve my arabic significantly,
Teach:all sorts of things from cooking together to singing, to poetry to languages...to philosophy
Share: Experience
What I Can Share with Hosts
Knowledge about the country and region, humour, music, books....
Countries I’ve Visited
Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, India, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Yemen, Zambia
Countries I’ve Lived In
Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Germany, Mali, Senegal, Sudan, Switzerland, Zimbabwe