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Ok, I guess I should put something on here - first thing about me: I don't really like filling in these things, but anyway. I'm a student of English and French, and I want to be a teacher when I'm finished university.

The reason I'm on here is that I love getting in touch with people from all over the globe, anywhere is fine with me. I think it's one of the most enriching things getting to know people from all over.

Other things I like: poetry, painting, philosophy, LANGUAGES !!, traveling, the beach and hot weather, swimming, snowboarding​, having a blast... :)

I'm mainly looking for girls aged 18-26 from all over. Friendship only! Preferably girls I can chat with. Don't just write one message and then never get back to me again - or well, if you do, don't write me in the first place haha ;o) - I would prefer emails, but would also want to write letters with some people (otherwise it gets to stressful ;o))

I'm willing to help anyone with their German, English or French. Planning to take up Italian again soon and would love to learn new things in Swedish (not that I know much already haha). I'm also interested in Portuguese and Turkish ;o)

I love...
*the sea and everything connected with it (the fresh air, the smell of it, sunny days, walking along the beach, swimming, relaxing, getting tanned...)
*people who are open for other cultures and want to know more about them
* individualit​y and creativity (in all different kinds of ways)
* nature and lying in the grass that smells like spring (freshly mown grass!!! I love it haha)
* Christmas and everything connected with it
* learning languages - not from a theoretical point of view but finding out how they are really spoken in everyday life, hence different dialects, slang words..
* philosophica​l discussions (from hard-core philosophy haha (preferably existentiali​sm (Sartre, Camus, Heidegger) to different views on politics, religion, society - and accepting everybody's viewpoint as long as they can give reasons for their views)
* working with children
* fin de siècle literature (esp. Baudelaire & Verlaine) > French literature in general
* nature (snow, green lawns, beaches, rivers, lakes...) but also the buzzing city life (couldn't live without it!!!) - e.g. sitting on the balcony in summer and listening to the sound of the cars that pass by and the people chattering
* cooking AND eating (in a healthy way, but not being overly obsessed with fancy diets and stuff)


I don't like...
* arrogance and people showing off when they have nothing really to brag about
* people who think their country is the only country worth living in and all others are inferior to them
* parochialism​
* sitting in classes where you get the feeling that the teacher is not really *teaching* you anything but just showing off his 'vast' knowledge (hence, professors that are unable to teach)
* dishonesty and hypocrisy
* people who follow rules slavishly without thinking or acting themselves

changes all the time; I love music from all over the world, open for everything (esp. when sung in the native language of the country and not in English)

Lord of the Flies
Les Fleurs du Mal
Les Quartiers d'Hiver
Wunschloses Unglück (Handke's style in general)
...

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years