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Overview

  • 5 references
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Chinese, French, Spanish
  • 32, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • international business school, bartending, personified aw...
  • high school, voluntary teaching, studying mandarin at bei...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

meeting people, travelling the world, enjoying life, making all of my plans and projects reality

ABOUT ME

I'm a young international minded gogetter who has been living, studying and working in Beijing and Berlin for a while and is now settling down in Amsterdam! I love meeting new people for sharing stories and experiences. Since I was a voluntary English teacher for a while I am interested in languages, cultures and working with kids, apart from that I'm into sports and pretty much any kind of nightlife ( :

PHILOSOPHY

live intensely, make it count.

besides that:

be yourself? nuts to that. be more awesome.

you can always improve your health, broaden your horizon, travel more, meet more people, learn another language, read more, help more people out...

you get the idea (:

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

right now: bringing the party to Amsterdam CS meetings mostly. as soon as I have the time I might also start hosting more often, awesome people of the world: welcome!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

people were crashing on my couches before I even knew couchsurfing existed! =D but anyway, I think my greatest experience was staying with a huge group of couchsurfers in sicily for a week! amazing time. I mean, we were partying on a boat like freaking hiphop stars! an absolute blast

Interests

Interests... I am interested in so many things, I sometimes wish I would not have the need to sleep at all.

Muisc ( I sing in bands when I have the time), international relations and politics, chinese culture, nutrition, slacklining, rockclimbing, kayaking, mountainbiking, weightlifting, business, self improvement, entrepreneurism, massive citys, women, partying, languages, travelling,Dr. Kelso from scrubs, hitting hostels and getting drunk with backpackers, economics...

  • culture
  • singing
  • dancing
  • nightlife
  • partying
  • boating
  • politics
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • kayaking
  • sports
  • business
  • economics
  • teaching
  • emergency services
  • international relations
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

maaaaaany !

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I could tell you about how I was lured into dodgy back alleys in the heart of hongkong, how I got in trouble with police close to the Myanmar border and about femme fatales in Italy...
But for now, let's go with something G - rated.

I spent one year teaching kids in a rural area in southern China and found it incredibly touching to work with those intelligent and fascinating students, helping them broaden their horizon and revealing their creative potential. I'm still getting emails from them (;

Teach, Learn, Share

Where ever I live, I usually know the nightlife well =D So I might help you out with that. Also I could teach you a bit of German and Mandarin (:

I am personally interested in learning way too many things. Hey wait, something came to my mind afterall! I don't usually get to take singing lessons, so it's always highhly appreciated if someone can give me some advice on that. same goes for dancing and stuff like rockclimbing

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