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Overview

  • 2 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in German; learning English, Russian, Spanish
  • 30, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Sports, friends, movies, reading, school, traveling
  • After 11 years of school I am going to finish school next...
  • From Vienna, Austria
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Get satisfaction and do something special with my given time.

ABOUT ME

I think that I am a friendly, interested, enthusiastic and helpful guy, whom you can trust and relie on. I am a good friend because I can be funny but also serious about certain topics, and I do think that i am a person you can talk to. If something interests me i can be very energetic and delightet, and I love to see new things and make new experiences. That is the main reason why I participated in Couch Surfing...

PHILOSOPHY

I want to live my life in a way, that in the end, when i am an old man, I can say: "My life was good!". With good I mean the balance between family, friends, journeys and hobbies and the balance between fun and work and beeing able to say that I enjoyed my life, but also helped other people beeing happy in their own lifes.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love to travel, but I do not like to stay in hotels or hostels, because when travelling I think it is not enough to just visit touristic places or enjoying some time on the beach. No! I think the sence of traveling is also to get in touch with the PEOPLE from the country you are visiting. I am very enthusaistic about the idea of couch surfing, because this is the best way to make this come true.
Of course I would also like to host people, because I actually do have space in the flat, which I would be happy to use. I could host up to 3 people, who are interested in Vienna and want to see this beautiful city. My flat is located in the centre of Vienna, 10 minutes by foot to the STEPHANSPLATZ.

Interests

I love reading and sports (especially rowing, swimming, biking climbing and slacklining)and watching movies with my friends. I like to see new things and make new expieriences. Learning new languages for example is something I am very enthusiastic about. Traveling and getting to know new people and their culture is something I am really interested in... Also I like history, art, literature and of course music. I love boardgames and food.

  • arts
  • culture
  • literature
  • dining
  • cooking
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • juggling
  • music
  • guitar
  • cycling
  • surfing
  • sports
  • rock climbing
  • swimming
  • rowing
  • history
  • languages
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Kubrick, Tarantino, Tarkowski, Nolan, Eastwood, Penn, Nichelson. Just a short brainstorming of my favourite regisseurs and actors. My favourite movies in the moment, but I am sure this changes a lot, are INTO THE WILD and CLOCKWERK ORANGE, but also PULP FICTION and THE SHINING
MUSIC: The Crooks, The Black Keys, Linkin Park, Die Toten Hosen, Eminem, The White Stripes, Metallica, Florida, Supertramp, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles,... A brief list of interprets I listened to in the last time. You can see that I can not really define my taste in musik, because it seriously includes almost every genre. Let's just say: I like what sounds good.
BOOKS: It is very difficult to make a list here, but I'll try to give an impression about what I like with just making a list of the last five books I read: ERAGON 4, The Hunger Games,Cherryman jagt M.White, Small world, Animal Farm

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spontaneously went to the barber and let him make a mohawk haircut (IROKESE). That means that all hair are cut, only leaving a small path in the middle of the head. Than i went to school, which is a very traditional and conservative catholic school and enjoyed the reaction.

Teach, Learn, Share

Practical skills I can maybe share with you: Slacklining, monocycling, juggling, waveboarding, surfing, ...
Knowledge I can maybe share with you: History, Literature, history of film, languages, art, ...
Stuff i would like to learn: play the guitar or another instrument, cook traditional food from oher countries, history of other countries, seeing things with different eyes,...

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Italy, Russian Federation, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Russian Federation, United States

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