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  • 52 references 31 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German, Swedish; learning Dutch, French, Icelandic, Russian, Spanish
  • 33, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • German Teacher
  • BA in scancinavian studies, MA in german as a foreign lan...
  • From Mühldorf, Lower Austria, Austria
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About Me

Current Mission

Exploring la ciudad de México!

fake it till you make it.

ABOUT ME

I'm easily fascinated by something/anything and would say that I'm into quite a broad range of things. I like to flee reality - meaning duties - and keep myself busy.
wordvomit:
snow. coffee. beer. music live or out of my headphones or on vinyl. flea markets. spending money on old cameras. b/w photography. forests. fog. blueberries. mind-blowing books. dancing. concerts. dreaming my life. talking. buying flight tickets. dim bars. morning light after going out. record stores. did I mention coffee? laughing. people in general. drawing. scribbeling. art galleries. risotto. foreign languages. cinemas. kladdkaka. grand-grandma's applepie. sunsets on the north atlantic seaside. mittons. spectacles. polaroids. pillows. melancholy. rainy days spent at home. midnight sun. mum's quiche lorraine. lakes. cakes. architecture. cycling. exploring. I hate saying goodbye

PHILOSOPHY

never say never.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

wanting shelter - seeing new surroundings through locals eyes.
giving shelter - when not able to travel myself, I liked to host people. my last living circumstances made that not easy unfortunately.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

overall great up to now!

Interests

well pretty much what I mentioned above.
music
art
books
foreign languages
conversations of all kinds with all kinds of different people
craft beer

  • arts
  • books
  • architecture
  • photography
  • concerts
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • beer
  • coffee
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • music
  • cycling
  • languages
  • hitchhiking
  • lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: control, garden state, science of sleep, blue velvet, dancer in the dark

Music: name dropping....the velvet underground, joy division, the smiths, tocotronic, the cure, sin fang, eels, seabear, sigur rós, the jesus and mary chain, exitmusic, austra, samaris...

Books: the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera, momo by michael ende, anna karenina by tolstoi, salka valka by halldór k. laxness

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

hitchhiking around Iceland - in 3 days, where one of the guys taking us with him was a fishermen driving a huge truck - never been so high above ground in a car driving over a tiny one-way bridge.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share a little bit of my world with you.
Or teach some practical basics in german :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I do cook nice austrian strudel, either sweet or salty. and kaiserschmarrn! though I have to look up how many eggs to use every single time I do it!
I can knit headbands.
I have to think of some more useful qualities of mine...

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Iceland, Mexico, Russian Federation, Sweden

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