20 year-old musician based in Vienna, striving to enjoy life :)

I am back!!
From December to March I lived in Ghana, where I experienced some of the craziest and happiest months of my life. I worked for an NGO called „Musiker ohne Grenzen“ (eng. Musicians without Borders) and taught music to children from some schools in Accra and the neighbourhood where I stayed. Now I am back in Austria and everything seems so quiet, organised and colorless in comparison, that I am even more looking forward to hosting guests in my house, who will bring stories, dreams and the spirit of traveling.

***Dear cs-members, if you decide to send me a request, please read through my profile completely and tell me why you want to stay and who you are. :) Be considerate of my decision that I‘m not accepting non-personal copy and paste messages. Nevertheless i am trying to answer every request. save travels to everyone!! ***

My Interrail trip through Europe was the first opportunity for me to use Couchsurfing and I really loved the concept of it. A lot of people here on CS have this phrase on their profile, but I think it’s true: It is all about turning strangers into friends or at least letting go of stereotypes and leaving the comfort zone.

I am a music student at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, studying clarinet. I also
play piano and bass guitar. ;)

friends would probably describe me as an optimistic and positive person, energetic, thoughtful, organised and adventurous (that‘s why i‘m on CS ;)

I enjoy spending time outdoors. I absolutely love cycling, I use it every day and on sunny weekends you can often find me somewhere outside of Vienna riding my roadbike. I also like hiking, my goal is to walk from one end of Austria to the other trough the alps.
I have also done ballroom dancing for some years now. :)

mostly vegetarian for ecological reasons

„Great things never came from comfort zones“

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

because I love to get to know new people and I‘m really excited to hear their stories

Interests

• books
• photography
• dancing
• running
• reading
• traveling
• juggling
• music
• piano
• bass guitar
• clarinet
• interrail
• swimming in the sea

Music, Movies, and Books

some books I can recommend:
Veronika beschließt zu sterben (Veronika decides to die) - Pablo Coelho
Siddharta - Hermann Hesse
We are the weather - saving the planet begins at breakfest - Jonathan Foer
Alte weiße Männer - Sophie Passmann

... different genres for different situations...
classical music and jazz are the kind of music i play on the clarinet, apart from that I love to listen to soul, funk, Reggae, Billy Joel, Beatles, red hot chilli peppers, Jacob Collier, Vulfpeck, also some german stuff: von wegen Lisbeth, Bilderbuch, Bukahara, AnnenmayKantereit ;)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

backpacking through Volta region, Ghana

Teach, Learn, Share

current projects:
trying to meditate every day - wim hof breathing - learning spanish (i’d love to host spanish speaking people, it helps me a lot if i can speak spanish regularly)

i’d love to make music with you, drink tea, show you around Vienna

What I Can Share with Hosts

a place to sleep and some time together: open for a lot of different things :) cooking, going out, having a run, a jam session, ... or whatever you come up with!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Ghana