Hi, everybody! My name is Edward and I’m 69 years old. I’m a retired teacher and headmaster of a private school. Currently I spend most of my time for studying. Studying needs so much time that I don’t have time to work, although, I enjoy life very much with my friends and my family. I’m married to Susan and I have two grown-up children and two grand-children.
In summer I live in a small village in Burgenland next to the Hungarian border, in winter I’m most of the time in Vienna, the city I love very much.
I do think that I’m a reliable, honest, sociable, tolerant, enthusiastic, and optimistic man.
I’m not a very skilled musician but I like to play the piano, the guitar, and I like to sing with my choir, of which I’m the director. When I have time I like drumming with my cajon or djembe. I regularly do sports, above all I like cross-country skiing, alpine skiing in winter, cycling, swimming, and nordic walking in summer … and I like to travel around Europe.
Why do I participate in peacecamp 2017? A friend of mine told me about that project, so I wrote to the co-ordinaters (Evelyn and Ronny) and offered them my willingness to participate, to co-ordinate and accompany the Austrian group.
I like to help people solve their conflicts and problems. I want to know more about other cultures and meeting you is a very good possibility to know how people live, to get information about your country, your culture, and to practise and improve my language skills of English. I’m sure participating in the project will widen my understanding of other people’s problems my own perspectives of the world we live in.
I’m looking forward with huge curiosity to meeting you!
