Who am I?
Good question, sometimes I feel am still searching and trying to find out.

I was born in 1979 in Leipzig (East Germany – German Democratic Republic). I grew up in a suburb called Gruenau which was at this time one of the biggest and fastest growing suburb in Germany (in high times we had over 100,000 people living in Gruenau).

I went to school as every normal person did, I went to the Gymnasium (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Gymnasium) and who would have thought I even graduated from school. Then I studied and – yes, you are right – I even managed to graduate from Uni too (in 2006).

Even that I was someone who didn’t saw much value in holidays and traveling, somehow I wanted to go on an adventure. I assume I wanted to proof myself that I am adventurous enough to do stuff like that and so I ended up going to New Zealand in 2007.
Originally I was planning to stay for 6-12 months and just to soak as much experience up I could and then go back to Germany and start settling down. As you can imagine – it came different. Now 6 years and a few months later I am still in New Zealand and settled.

At the beginning of the journey it was more about I like it I want to stay a bit longer and push some boundaries and some comfort-zones, further down the track it was and still is about – I like to live here, what can Germany offer what is better than NZ?
This question could be easily answered with – Family and Friends. And hell yes I miss them a lot. I miss seeing my family celebrating family events, I miss spending time with my parents, my sister, my grandparents, my cousins, my aunties and uncles and especially I miss spending time with my close friends, being part of their lives, seeing their kids growing up and being the ‘Uncle’ Daniel – I hope they miss spending time with me too 🙂 …

But I am glad that all the important people in my life living in Germany still know me and trying to constantly staying in contact with me – that’s a very nice feeling to have and also that is something I learned over the last 6 odd years – “It doesn’t matter where you live – true friends and family will always have you in mind and support you”.

Now I made new friends in New Zealand and especially with other people traveling around the world. This addition was worth so much that you not even can compare that to anything else in the world. Some of these new friends started off with the same idea as I did when i left Germany, some of the are still in NZ too, some of them are back home in their countries and guess what – yes we still regularly in contact as same as I am with my friends in Germany and I can’t wait to visit them all from time to time to show my appreciation of our friendship and as well to learn more about them and their cultures.

So now you might be interested in what do i do, or what kind of person I am?

Again, a really good question. Personally I believe I am insane with a hang on sarcasm and some really bad sense of humor. What other people think about me? – I am not sure if i care about that as I don’t take myself too serious, so why should others take me serious?

Cutting right through – I am an IT specialist with a strong sense of efficiency. I hate nothing more then people who don’t understand the principle of “Do Right thing first time” and of “Work hard and play hard”. You might see this as a typical German thing and it might is one but at the end of the day I like to make things better and more enjoyable for people I am working with and working for (and of course for myself).

So my second site is something my passion screams for and that is playing, coaching and organising Handball. Hereby I mean the Olympic Handball version which is supposedly rated as the second most popular Sport in the World after Football (Soccer).
I am playing Handball since 1990 and since I am a young adult I am also coaching and organizing Handball which feels really good for me. I like especially the social component of a team sport which adds a huge amount of life quality to my life.
Unfortunately I am very ambitious as well and losing is something I don’t really like or want to handle, over the time I surely improved on the handling part and got a bit more relaxed about it, but I still like to compete and improve.

That’s pretty much me – if you have any questions please don’t hesitate and ask 🙂