we only have some busses that we are travellin round in
- if you want to join our tour for a while,
feel welcome to contact us, maybe we got some space free in our bus!
we'll be somewhere around france, spain and portugal!
you can contact us on this website, or our other websites:
Peter Gustafson 26, Male Berlin, Berlin Germany Friends since July 2008 "from three projects before!" Friendship Type: Close Friend
Martin Burghart 25, Male Munich, Bavaria Germany Friends since March 1996 "different people, i know some since i was 10" Friendship Type: Best Friend
Anna Basting 22, Female Rosenheim, Bavaria Germany Friends since February 2007 "live with her for a while..." Friendship Type: Best Friend 30+30+30+
NEMO123 22, Male Berlin, Berlin Germany Friends since May 2008 "some more hippie-freaks..." Friendship Type: Good Friend
Barry Mc Donald 32, Male Malmo, Skane Sweden Friends since February 2009 "Traveling with these crazy people...." Friendship Type: Best Friend 30+
Kajsa Heggenberger 30, Female Malmo, Skane Sweden Friends since March 2009 "Met them in Beneficio, Spain. Spent many days and weeks in the area with and around them on shared missions like dumstering, cooking on the fire, hiding from rain and storm and enjoying days in the sun. " Friendship Type: Friend 30+
Stella Schmid 23, Female Munich, Bavaria Germany Friends since August 2006 "from live" Friendship Type: Good Friend
WALDMUME 24, Female Munich, Bavaria Germany Friends since August 2006 "Travelled and lived together" Friendship Type: Good Friend 30+30+30+
DAS_NORARON 26, Female Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany Friends since January 2007 "with some of them I lived together for a while" Friendship Type: Close Friend
Gustaf o slava Gruenewalden 26, Male Goettingen, Lower Saxony Germany Friends since August 2007 "most of em are friends..working for making my dream true :P" Friendship Type: Close Friend
We are a group of young people that decided to move out in the world to encourage and motivate its people, spreading awareness that together we are able to progress to something more inspirational and sincere than the trends towards social isolation, passive consuming culture, lack of prospects, and unneccessary hierarchies in learning and working life.
We prepared some content (scroll down!), but in the end it's your ideas which make the tour what it should be
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WE WILL BE TRAVELLIN FRANCE/SPAIN/PORTUGAL THIS WINTER AND SPRING (08/09)
AND WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!! :
* we are searching people to give us accomodation (when it is too cold to sleep in our busses)
to let us cook or shower in their place
* we are searching people to help us with translations of texts
* we are searching cool contacts of projects, initiatives, groups, communities, projects, single persons or even entreprises interested in our ideas or having cool ideas themselves that they wanna share with us
* we are searching places to do workshops at, cool festivals where we can make an information point or skillsharing area at, ... or whatever other ideas
* we are searching artists who wanna do some cool street shows with us, e.g. (political?) street theatre
* we are also searching people who wanna travel with us for a while and give some positive inputs
* we are searching people who are interested in building up alternative economy networks as well as education/skillsharing networks
and programmers who can help us in creating (open source) software/social networks for that (we are connected with some ruby on rails programmers in germany who are working on the software of tsolife and on other projects)
* we are searching for people in ecovillages etc to teach us permaculture, alternative medicine and that kinda things...
topics we can do workshops about and we are interested in are e.g.
* education networks
* web 2.0 and really "social" networks
* fairtrade and solidarity economy
* gift economy /"freeconomy" and open source movement
* "open space" and how to decrease hierachies in events
* "eventguerrilla"
* the neo-eco-movement ("lohas")
* ...
moreover we can do some juggling/fireshow- stuff
we wanna do some art projects like street theatre
and some guerrilla gardening :-)
we are interested in ecological subjects also, e.g. we want to learn about
* permaculture
* natural medicine
* education networks
* free education
* school critics and alternative schools
- internet/computers/networking:
* web 2.0 and really "social" networks
* how to build up networks and databases for sharing skills, ressources, ...
economy:
* fairtrade and solidarity economy
* gift economy /"freeconomy" and open source movement
partys/events/culture
* "open space" method and how to decrease hierachies in events
* "eventguerrilla"
* consum critcism in events / parties
* juggling/fireshow- stuff
* street theatre
* jam sessions, experimantal music
* experimental photo-art and films
ecology:
* the neo-eco-movement ("lohas")
* guerrilla gardening :-)
* permaculture
* natural medicine
Philosophy
dance for change :-)
Teach, Learn, Share
SKILLSHARING - CAUSE KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
the most important thing for us while we are travelling is learning and teaching ... the skillsurfers project is mostly a skillsharing tour inspired by the ideas of the travelling school of life.
That means that we want to exchange our knowledge and ideas with you, wanna teach you about what we know, learn from you and carry the seeds of inspiration you are giving us with us
to let your ideas grow in other places... :-)
topics we can do workshops about and we are interested in are
* education networks
* web 2.0 and really "social" networks
* fairtrade and solidarity economy
* gift economy /"freeconomy"
* "open space" and how to decrease hierachies in events
moreover we can do some juggling/fireshow- stuff
we wanna do some art projects like street theatre
and some guerrilla gardening :-)
we are interested in ecological subjects also, e.g. we want to learn about
* permaculture
* natural medicine
Opinion on the CouchSurfing.org Project
We think that couchsurfing as well as other hospitalitynetworks (e.g. hospitalityclub.org, bewelcome.org) are very important and about the best outcome of globalisation - but we should not get lazy and be satisfied with this, but develop on these ideas of freedom and solidarity until they cover every aspect of daily life.
We cannot only help each other with places to sleep and "travelparty support", but we can share everything and really create a better world. The web 2.0. can be a chance to reach freedom and equality by networking projects and people and saving ressources...
We want contribute to building up skillsharing, landsharing, ressourcesharing, ... networks
Also we think it's important to talk about data security, about how to make internet projects like this more transparent and how to decrease hierarchies in the structures.
Also we want to think about how web 2.0 can have an impact on political issues and give back power to the people...
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it is great here... very friendly, open people who live here. we have advice on where to go to see alternative berlin and we are planning to do some great stuff together :) very helpful! glad to meet people like this.
The skillsurfers are working with grgeat social and ecologic projects. funny people, with a lot of energy and good ideas of how to change the world- and they even do something for it. Not this kind of hippies which sit and smoke all day and talking philosophie of how everything should be...
Anja and Sam arrived in their big "bus" smiling and tolerant....a few days later they came back and we spent days talking, thinking and they worked hard. They reinforced a lot of "other ways" of life that I've thought about and they are an inspiration....making people think and analyze in a very gentle and indirect way...they are strong, good people and i hope that portugal and munich and berlin can enjoy you two and you will enjoy the new and old places even more!
A very fortunate find, they showed me a different way of travelling and was a wonderful learning curve for me.
From Dante Monson Sint-Gillis - Saint-Gilles, Belgium Apr 10, 2009
Positive
I connected to some of the people of the little Traveling School of Life Tribe back in spring 2006, in Zajezova, and since then developed friendships with some of the people involved, and stayed in touch through the internet with the developments of the project. A hitch hiking burnout ( after 5 years of ungoing hh'ing ) lead me to not join the tour.
München - Munich 
Hannover
Utopia Hannover
Kassel
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