CURRENT MISSION

Enjoy life and make it enjoyable for other people

ABOUT ME

Dear friends,after what happened lately (since mid-2011) with CouchSurfing, I will not host anyone via this website anymore. However, I will gladly host you via BeWelcome.

I am 30-years old, living in Hamburg. I love enjoying life, eating, drinking, discussing, cooking, music, nature, but urbanism too; I love football and adore the best soccer club of the world, the famous FC St. Pauli ; I'm interested in politics, people, cultures.

PHILOSOPHY

Enjoy all the harmless fruits of life;
Never take up weapons against God or the Devil;
Disdain coming things, regret not what came before;
Don't bother interpreting the moment nor shrink from it;
Keep an eye on life; envy not another's fortune;
Remain playful, curious even in sorrow;
On one's own fate be detached --
Which means to enjoy it and be blessed.

Erich Mühsam

Interests

Politics (though superfrustrated with it),
soccer (though no so good at it),
lazing around (though superbad at it),
music (though completely unable to even operate a triangle),
sleeping on your couch (supergood at it)

• cooking
• beer
• drinking
• clubbing
• politics
• music
• soccer

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Absolute Giganten, Lost in translation, Persepolis, Modern times

Books I loved to read: Due di due from Andrea de Carlo, L'etranger from Albert Camus, my all-timme classic is The brothers Lionheart from Astrid Lindgren.

Music, there is so much I love. Actually Tocotronic, Belle and sebastian, Pink Floyd, Must have been Tokyo, BC 400 and lots more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A crazy bus trio from Accra (Ghana) to Abidjan (Cote d' Ivoire). 400km in 26hours. About six or seven sharper controls - each time soldiers checked our whole baggage and stuff. Then, once arrived, we've been surrounded by soldiers with machine guns who asked us for money. I was the only white person in the bus, so they picked me first to "pay a fine or go to jail" - I was 19, on the african continent for the first time and nearly died from fear. Finally, i had to give about 3€ or something.
Few minutes later, the bus driver started to drive as if the devil himself was behind us, jumping the lights and all that. I asked the other people in the bus what happens and they told me that other soldiers were chasing us, what emerged as being true. A car chase through Abidjan, after 26 hours in that rusty vehicle...that was the moment when "nearly dying from fear" turned into something far beyond. We finally stopped in front of the embassy of Ghana and ghanaian soldiers came out to protect us. There I was, surrounded by two lines of soldiers, one ghanaian line trying to protect us and one ivorian trying to do whatever with us. Finally the latter gave up and we could finally get off that bus. My knees were still shacking even days later. I wish there was a world without soldiers.

A nicer thing I've done was a camel trip through the desert of Rajasthan, India. Sleeping on the dunes till the desert sun wakens you, so nice. Camels are a lot nicer than soldiers. Rule camelia!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can open a bottle of beer only by using a newspaper.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, Egypt, France, Ghana, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Portugal, Rwanda, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, France, Germany

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