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Overview

  • 18 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Czech, French
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • Online marketing account manager
  • Masters of International Marketing - Giessen, Germany
  • From Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

My mission at the moment is just to enjoy life... the way I do this is by traveling and when I am at home, meeting new people!

ABOUT ME

I am 30 years old and love good times with friends, meeting new people, sunshine and great coffee. I think there is nothing better than a good laugh and from the traveling I have done in the past I have realized one thing: it's not where you are in the world that matters, it's who you are with. I like surrounding myself with positive people because I am a positive person! I am a bit of a fatalist... I believe that everything happens for a reason and that everything is ok in the end. If it's not ok, then it's not the end.

PHILOSOPHY

That love is all there is, is all we know of love.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Want to participate in every way I can... first heard about couchsurfing last year while I was traveling in Australia and although I only did it once, I loved it and love the whole idea of it. I love meeting new people and having new adventures.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Regarding my first couchsurfing experience, I must say it was a wicked! I stayed with Paul for ten days in Australia, and probably wouldn't be here today if it weren't for him! Also have met tons of people just throught group postings or arranging with people passing through town for a coffee or drink. Otherwise I have hosted a couple of times in Frankfurt, and now together with my boyfriend we finally have a big enough place to host in Michelstadt!

Interests

Rollerblading, meeting new people, learning languages, foreign films, good wine, finding new music, scrapbooking, traveling, cooking, spending time with friends and family, yoga, lattes, sunshine, reading, I could go on....

  • cooking
  • wine
  • coffee
  • wine tasting
  • yoga
  • walking
  • drinking
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • scrapbooking
  • music
  • surfing
  • scuba diving
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Mumford and Sons, Xavier Rudd, The Arcade Fire, Coldplay, The Bloc Party, Hawksley Workman, Bon Iver, Gotye, Bahamas, Dan Mangan, Rodriguez, Michael Kiwanuka, Of Monsters and Men, Sigur Ros, The Xx, Santigold, Radiohead, Black Seeds, The Parlotones, Freshly Ground, Feist, Angus & Julia Stone
Movies: Love Actually, C.R.A.Z.Y., It's All Gone Pete Tong, Water, Searching for Sugarman, 101 Reykjavik, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dirty Dancing, Caramel, White Christmas
Books: A Fine Balance, The Life of Pi, Shantaram, A Suitable Boy, Steve Jobs Biography; basically anything other than Fifty Shades of Grey!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have been fortunate to have so many great experiences so far in my life: Standard experiences like riding elephants in Thailand, scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef, wine tasting in Stellenbosch, operas at the National Theatre in Prague, and surfing in Hawaii, but also incredible experiences like visiting the ancient city of Petra at 6am before the crowds, seeing the effects of the Chernobyl disaster 30 years later, walking tour of Beirut, stumbling upon the Western Wall in Jerusalem on a Friday evening, visiting the unrecognized countries Transnistria and Nagorno-Karabakh, touring Iran, sleeping in the desert of Oman - the list goes on!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Czech Republic, Germany

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