CURRENT MISSION

Starting my new life

ABOUT ME
I studied Agroecology in Sweden and Agroforestry in Wales after volunteering for the NGO Navdanya in India and I worked for a Japanese NGO in Germany. Now I am working in university administration.

About me:
- I am sensitive and calm and therefore I like gentle people.
- I'm an observer and listener in the first place and don't like being pushed to talk, but I can if I'm interested in the topic.
- I love cycling and walking - please don't offer any rides to me if I can walk (unless I have luggage :) )
- I'm a vegan, I don't drink or smoke, I don't drink coffee.
- I am a professed fruitoholic and tea-fetishist (both in the Western and Eastern sense ;))

PHILOSOPHY

A life without love is a waste. “Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?”, don’t ask yourself this question. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love doesn’t need any name, category or definition. Love is a world itself. Either you are in, at the center…either you are out, yearning.
~ Shams Tabrizi

"Be sincere, always more and more sincere. Nothing will happen. Try to be sincere and see what happens."
~ Swami Brahmdev

“Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing, hosting and attending events

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed in Sweden, Israel, Panama, Colombia, Uganda, India and the UK and hosted and met people in Germany, Sweden and the UK.

Interests

agroecology, agroforestry, good conversations, cooking, bookshops, veganism, daydreaming, farming, healthy stuff, different cultures (obviously ;) ), Indian culture, fruits, jogging, walking, languages, meditation, permaculture, possibility management, spirituality, Sweden, travelling (obviously?), yoga

Having spent substantial timespans in developing countries has made me VERY aware of the fact that I am amongst the 10 % of the richest people in the world and can even afford such interests.

• culture
• writing
• cooking
• chocolate
• vegan
• yoga
• meditation
• walking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• cycling
• agriculture
• languages
• wwoof

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Adams Apples, Anna Karenina, Peaceful Warrior, This is it, Lord of the Rings, As it is in Heaven, Luther, Pirates of the Caribbean, Seven years in Tibet, More Than Honey, Gandhi My Father, Fanaa, The True Cost, An Insignificant Man, Truman Show, Vision, independent Indian cinema

Music: any music which reminds me of places and people

Books: Krishnamurti, Self-Observation, A Course in Miracles

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Meeting kind people is more amazing than any natural wonder.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share my knowledge about languages, yoga, India, meditation, spirituality and my (lack of) understanding of life.

I can converse in Swedish (men inte skitbra ;) ) and Spanish (más o menos...). I can read and write Devanagari and speak थोड़ी Hindi. I can read some Arabic, Hebrew and Hiragana.

This was my latest blog: http://johannatravels.wordpress.com/

This was my first blog in India:
http://johannas-travels.blogspot.se

This was my blog in Panama:
http://johannainpanama.blogspot.se

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cooking vegan meals, exploring the town and nature

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, India, Sweden, United Kingdom

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