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Overview

  • 31 references 24 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning French, Italian, Korean, Romansh, Spanish
  • 45, Other
  • Member since 2009
  • Acupuncturist / Web Application Developer
  • never ends...
  • From New York / Zürich
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

raising a Munchkin and a Bean to be an open-minded, thoughtful people

ABOUT ME

We are nice people that don't eat other people. Although we are not vegetarian and like our meat rare. We can show you a Switzerland (or confederatio helvetica) beyond good chocolate and bad banks.

PHILOSOPHY

Heile, heile, sege, 3 Tag rege, 3 Tag schnee, und scho tuet es nümer weh

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We've met some amazing people through CS, and are thrilled to have made wonderful friends along the way.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Too many wonderful things to write down in such a little space.
Alejandro was a joy to host, and made us very appreciative of CouchSurfing. It was interesting to hear about his travels and his life in Mexico City. He is a wonderful cook! Meeting a complete stranger who became our friend was the best part. It is so cool that our daughters are the same age and after so many years we still keep in touch.

Rachel showed us a part of Zürich that we weren't familiar with and Erik still enjoys 'Where's my Teddy' book immensely.

Meeting Edwin, Silvia, and Martin has shown us what it can be like to have such warm-hearted hosts. It made our holiday in Vienna so extraordinary, and we can only highly recommend it for others. It was nice to have another child for Erik to play with, and it is interesting to hear about what it is like for natives in their own city. It certainly goes beyond the people in Mozart costumes. We liked learning about these places that you can not easily find as a tourist.

Cecile and Bienvenue showed us how easy it looks traveling as a family of 6. They really helped out and were so positive. Like rays of sunlight.

Ane and Matteo had a great sense of humor and were very flexible. They were well prepared for their little girl and had interesting stories to tell.

Interests

Erik: Unihockey, Ice Hockey, Board games like Go, Settlers of Catan, Lego, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Good Food
Elin: Music and Dancing, Painting, Frozen, being around people
Helen: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Wild Fermentation, Vintage Clothing, Foreign Cultures and Cuisine, History, Marionettes, Yoga, Organic Sustainable Food
Roman: Comics (graphic novels would be more accurate), Pixels, Modern things, Internet, the correlation of things

Us all: Films, Food, Traveling, Music, British humor, meeting nice people through CS

  • animals
  • books
  • design
  • dining
  • cooking
  • chocolate
  • vegetarian
  • yoga
  • clothing
  • comics
  • movies
  • video games
  • board games
  • traveling
  • cars
  • music
  • history
  • medicine
  • ice hockey
  • herbalism
  • floorball
  • unihockey
  • animals and nature

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
The Man from Earth, Daria & IT Crowd & Little Britain (well they are series), Matchpoint, Mononoke Hime, It's a Wonderful Life, Pandora's Box, Metropolis, Harold and Maude, Donnie Darko, Show Me Love, Spring, Summer, Fall, Autumn, Spring..., Inception, Drive

Music:
Client, Beethoven, Liricas Analas, Therion, Mickey 3d, Pixies, Unwound, Jesus Lizard, Jake Fairley, Lily Allen, Mani Matter, etc.

Books:
Authors: Annemarie Colbin, Sandor Katz, Sally Fallon, Hermann Hesse, Nick Hornby, Margaret Atwood, Marjane Satrapi, Cages (Dave Mc Kean)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Giving birth to our son, Erik, and our daughter, Elin, at home and watching them grow up.

Teach, Learn, Share

We can teach a thing or two about TCM or Web Design.

What I Can Share with Hosts

We are happy to help out around the house, and cook meals when possible.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Sweden, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

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