CURRENT MISSION

Working in China and saving enough money to buy a caravan

ABOUT ME

I am 24 years old now, and lived near Vienna in Austria. After I finished my community service at a emergency homeless shelter I decided to travel to South East Asia. I traveled there for about 7 months and then I started to work in China as an english teacher for small cute kids. I really enjoyed this job :) Right now I ususally live and host in Changsha, I live to gether with my girlfriend in a quiet area close to the university. we are working on establishing a Café at the moment. During travelling, I love to meet new people on my way, and continue it randomly. My travel plans are mostly inspired by people I met on my way. Hard to describe oneself. I would say I am a calm and relaxed guy, who love to discuss and talk about differences and things going on arround the world. I also really enjoy learning about and from other cultures. I am very flexible and always interested to try out new things.

PHILOSOPHY

--nothing lasts forever, and life changes so fast... you should live and enjoy the present.--
even tho sometimes it is very difficult for me to stick with that.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

First I surfed threw SE Asia. Now I host guests in Changsha, China.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Till now, all my experiences are positive. Completely different of course but all interesting and in the end good.

Interests

travelling, but just to get to new places where I can stay then for a while or longer, cooking and eating, listening to lot of different music, going to bars & Cafés, just relaxing :), barbecue, a lot of different movies and series, PC games, playing badmington ,playing ping pong, watching football (soccer)

• fish
• arts
• dining
• cooking
• bbq
• boating
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• fishing
• sailing
• rock climbing
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: every science-fiction movie, Lord of the Rings, Fight Club, Office Space, Seven years in Tibet, Ip Man, Children of Men, and lot more

Books: The Millenium Triology (Stieg Larsson), Paulo Coelho, Wolfgang Hohlbein, Stephan King, frank schätzing

Music: Rock, Punk, Metal, Alternative, Jazz, Drum and Bass, Dubstep (old UK), Hip Hop, Indie, World Music, sometimes Classical music,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

.Dolphins in the Adriatic Sea, for someone like me hardly ever seeing the sea (Austria has no Sea ;) ), it was awsome to see these giant fish or more watermammals to follow our boat for about 10 minutes, jumping I guess a meter out of the water!

. Going the Grand Canion Down, spending the night at a tent near the Colorado River and going up again the next day.

. sailing about 2000 km from turkey to croatia

Teach, Learn, Share

Things I would like to learn in near future: Rock Climbing, some Martial Art, and cooking good Asian food and speaking proper mandarin.

I learned Thai Massage in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and can maybe Share it to others. And of course the english and german language.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Brunei Darussalam, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, China, France