CURRENT MISSION

Teaching the art of rhetorics and debating in German and English language to Central-& Eastern-European high school students.

ABOUT ME

I was born in the North-East of Germany but living my whole life in the area of Berlin. I got my bachelors degree as a corporate student in "International Business Administration" while being an employee at IBM. Two years ago, I graduated from Leipzig Graduate School of Management with my masters degree and a semester abroad at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). Now I am working as Finance Manager for Rosneft Aviation ensuring the supply of German airport with jet fuel.

But besides my demanding work I just try to get to know the world, the people, their cultures and their languages. So thats why I am here :)

PHILOSOPHY

I try to confuse my German character, that always wants to plan every little step by having spontanoues ideas and travel actions.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I began with Couchsurfing in summer 2013 going to the CS-Events as the weekly meetings to hang-out with the locals in Berlin and Bratislava. Afterwards I made my own Couchsurfing trips throughout the Baltics and to Liechtenstein. Now I mostly focus on showing guests my beloved Berlin.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far I meet only good and honest people holding so many talks about languages and shared hobbies as archery and debating.

Interests

My free time I spent on cycling and volleyball to keep myself fit. Furthermore I havd my little life projects like as a debating and rhetoric trainer for high schools students for now ten years. Over the time I educated young students in Poland, Czech Rep. and finally became national trainer for debating in Russia & Ukraine in 2015. A year ago I joined a new project called Demoslam, which is seeking to foster the exchange between european youth through meetings and joint presentations in a format that you may know from Science Slams or Poetry Slams.

• aviation
• cycling
• volleyball
• archery
• rhetoric
• debating

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Terminal, Up in the Air
Music: Charts, RnB, European-Ethno-Pop
Books: Mankell's Wallander

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I guess like everyone a plenty of things, but the most challenging was to survive a summer on a Russian datsha far from any civilization, without water, electrcity and gas.

Teach, Learn, Share

As a volountary activity I teach people how to debate in the German language and sometimes even how to shoot in archery as one of my older hobbies. But I like to talk about Europe and all it's cultures, I love be European!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Ireland, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia