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Living Fearless. Living where I belong.

I chose this as motivation because moving abroad and moving between two foreign countries in a short period of time taught me to be fearless. I lived in the US for the past year and now just moved to Scotland to experience a completely different culture. Both cultures involve having English as an important language but this is as close as it gets. In the short period of time I have been living here now, I already noticed so many linguistic and cultural differences that make it harder for me to adjust immediately as compared to how it was for me in the US.

Over the edge of the Grand Canyon. After 4 hours of hiking, I was rewarded with this incredible view.

If I had to choose how to describe myself, I could only tell you that I have an adventurous personality who loves to go rock-climbing. I just started it roughly a year ago but since then, it has become a passion of its own. I cannot breathe without thinking how to climb our world, how to solve a problem and use those skills - they are not only helpful in a zombie apocalypse - in my real life. I think one of the more applicable ones might be not giving up so quickly and hanging in there. Literally, when you're hanging from a rope, you have no other choice but to hang in there and take your moment and think how to start taking the next step. To someone who has never climbed before that might sound really weird but keeping up with coursework at uni or your daily life - as in school or work - is nothing else but climbing. Admitting not being the best at hiking, I still love doing it and one of my best experiences in my life has been hiking and climbing in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, US.

Besides being addicted to adventure, I absolutely love learning about different cultures and their respective languages. I have always been fascinated by other concepts of human languages which play a big role of our culture. It is not just a grammatical structure and some vocabulary, it is an entire glossary of how someone's culture and behaviour works. It is a manual to a culture's personality for me and I made it to my objective to understand and become an active part of our beautiful diverse world. I grew up speaking German and learning English since I was little and then started studying French and Spanish. After that I started teaching myself Norwegian, and now study Arabic and Japanese. I also used to take some classes in Czech and Russian but that didn't go so well. Maybe in the years to come because I never know but right now I'm trying to focus on Arabic - mainly because it is one of my uni courses - and Japanese because I don't want to forget it that quickly. Many people ask me why or how I do this but for me it just seems naturally. There is no understanding for me to constrain myself to a fixed culture and geographics just because I only know my own tongue. It might mess up your brain for a little while - I started reading the Latin alphabet from right to left now (and believe me it is not very helpful when you're reading a book) - but in the end, after you overcome the first phase of getting to know your new language, the syntax and you will become friends afterall.