CURRENT MISSION

Being for the summer in Kigali

ABOUT ME

Dear folks,
my name is Malin (it's a swedish name but I'm German). I'm living for the past 3 years in Frankfurt in Germany. Most of time I'm spending at the moment working in a lab for doing experiments for my PhD thesis in virology in vaccine development and testing antivirals. In the lab I'm surrounded by people from all over the world (China, Syria, Egypt, Venezuela, Brazil...) and I really enjoy it.
I grew up in a small village about an hour away from Frankfurt with my lovely family who I love to visit during the weekends. My granny is a very impressive person and very fit for her age. As long as it is possible we are traveling from time to time together like last year in Portugal where we choose the same trip as she did with my grandpa for honeymoon over 50 years ago (but don't be afraid with my granny I'm normally not couchsurfing ;-) )
To my person. I love doing sports like alpine skiing, scuba diving and yoga. I have a huge passion for water and unfortunately also during the night when we are out I have to jump into a lake/river/pool (whatever is available) on my way back home. I did for over a decade vaulting (acrobatics on a running horse) and had my own team which I trained twice a week. Still I love it but my work kept me quite busy in the last time so that I couldn't continue.
In general I love to be spontaneous! Plan is not having a plan and to see what life has in store for me. It doesn't make sense to plan every detail of your life.

PHILOSOPHY

A friend might be waiting behind a strangers face

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

to meet fantastic people and to expand my horizon

I love the idea of couchsurfing to meet people who like to create new memories and who are open mined for the view of the world of other people. Especially because I'm intrested to work for international organizations in the future I like to get in touch with many cultures to learn the different ways of thinking. I'm not an extreme couchsurfer who is doing it every night when I'm abroad but I made such good experience in Switzerland, Israel, Spain and the Netherlands with very impressive people so that I like to continue to be part of this network!

Interests

WATER! scuba diving, alpine skiing, vaulting, backpacking, wakeboarding, truffle pigs, satre, helge schneider, golden retriever, cheese, starry sky, foreign affairs, adventures, driving around in my car, ducklings, bananas, my comfortable bed, motorbike trips, public health, long good conversations, sunshine on my skin (and vitamin D ;-) - the topic of my PhD thesis), trying to understand the hamster in my head who is driven by my extroverted character and might be triggered by coffin and tequila which I try to avoid to sleep calm during nights, the feeling of sand under my feet, hammocks, moep

Music, Movies, and Books

alt J, bonobo, beatsteaks, gogol bordello, red hot chilli peppers, foo fighters...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm doing a lot of crazy stuff, one of them was sledding in a bikini or covering a whole car of a friend of mine with post-its (see pictures). I'm always open for stupid bets and feel challenged. Back to seriousness - the amazingst experience I ever had was in a cave down in the red sea at about 30m under the surface of the water - cold, dark and the only thing you could hear in the silence was your own breath - goosebumps!

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to be enthusiastic about the tiny things in our life!
I think we should be thankful about what we have instead of being jealous.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I would like to share a good time.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, Egypt, France, Greece, India, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Rwanda, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Switzerland