CURRENT MISSION

Trying to get on track with my PhD in Nutrition / Medical Sciences and still having a good life :)

ABOUT ME

I grew up near / in Berlin but now live in Cambridge, UK. My life centres around a couple of things: Love, friends, Uni/Work, travelling and hobbies. I try to experience as much as I can, and try not to separate the different parts of my life too much, because that's not sustainable for me. But maybe it's not sustainable to have everything at once. I don't know yet :)

I have studied different bit of the Social Sciences, then I did Public Health, and now I am doing a PhD in Medical Sciences, focusing on nutrition. I have lived in different cities on both sides of the Atlantic, but I think I'm too European to ever seriously considering leaving here.

I think I am a fairly optimistic, happy person. I like serious conversations as much as stupid ones. I am easy to get along with and highly respectful. People say I look like a bear. I don't know about that.

PHILOSOPHY

Nothing complicated. I try to care of myself, people around me, and the environment. I am engaged in a local NGO here in Cambridge to push green issues in student and professional life. I try do stuff that has some kind of purpose for society.
I am aware of the fact that I am a white, heterosexual male from Europe. I therefore enjoy a lot of privileges and don't experience discrimination the way other people do. A Sociology degree surely helped me becoming aware of this, and I try to help mitigating this where I can. Oh, and I don't like - inequality, war, and ethnocentrism.

Что привело меня на Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I started maybe in 2004 with Hospitality Club, then switched to CS at some point. I hosted quite a few people in Berlin and other places, was a guest in Spain and the Baltic states and Lebanon. It's always been great.

I haven't been participating for the last couple of years, neither hosting nor being a guest, for multiple reasons. I kind of miss it a bit, so I'm trying to pick it up again.

Интересы

Main interests:
- food (love salads and fresh food, but do enjoy other stuff),
- music (indie-folk, some pop, quite ambient house)
- music (I am trying to become a producer. NOT that easy ;))
- social issues (I probably spend 20% of the day thinking about stuff like: should the railways in the UK be re-nationalized, how to stop the war, how do we overcome Neoliberalism, etc.)

• books
• singing
• concerts
• festivals
• walking
• clubbing
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• surfing
• social science

Музыка, кино и книги

Books:
James Frey, Naomi Klein, Matt Ruff, Jonathan Frantzen, Frank Mccourt, T.C. Boyle, my non-fictional favorites are Joseph Stiglitz and Noam Chomsky.

Music: Grizzly Bear, Beach House, Fleet Foxes, Rhye, MacDeMarco. A lot of random stuff due to Spotify, recently discovered classical music.

Классная вещь, которую я сделал(-а)

National Parks in South America. Splendid.

Учу, учусь, делюсь опытом и информацией

DSLR, languages, loads of music tips.

Чем я могу поделиться с хостами

I can cook, I can laugh.
I ask good questions and am genuinely interested.
And probably have one or another interesting thing to tell about nutrition, politics, music, and human emotions.

Где я побывал(-а)

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States

Где я жил(-а)

Chile, Ecuador, Germany, United Kingdom, United States