Hola fellow steemians (is this how we call us???) i m excited to introduce myself to you from Lago Atitlan in Guatemala - one of my favorite places on this planet, because its just ... magicó :-)
i am Verena, a 41 year old german, who quit the hamsterwheel and left Berlin 3 years ago, got a backpack, a one-way ticket to myanmar and started my journey into the unkown. a journey outside of any comfort zone i used to live in. and outside of any of the boxes, age, gender, cultural or professional background i could fit in. And i don't consider fitting easily in any of them anytime soon.
I am a foodie, an adventurous soul, a little crazy, a little boring, laid back, vibrant, wise, silly, ... you name it :-)
hah, its hard to summarize, but i can say; its been a hell of a ride. and the rollercoaster hasn’t stopped yet. its FULL ON.
i learned meditating, listening, being grateful as fuck, how to grow stuff on permaculture farms, how to treat friends with a thai massage, how to improve my physical fitness with HIIT, how to understand and survive in spanish speaking parts of the planet, and got uncountable life and travel hacks and so forth.
this journey taught me probably more than 13 yrs of german school education and 7 yrs of uni (hell yes, i enjoyed that time to the fullest as well ;-) !)
i ve heard about steemit a while ago, somewhere in a coworking space on bali, some millennial might have mentioned it. but i didn’t quite get it. i wanted to research, but then - somehow - i got distracted and put it on hold.. until i attended an online conference called cryptisto, organized and facilitated by my adorable friend, serial entrepreneur, fellow nomad and amazing human Lars Müller, called „lean lars“
Finally understanding the philosophy and approach behind steemit i was p u m p e d and created my account straight away. Still took me a week for this introduce myself article *shame on me… but still pretty excited to finally become part of this amazing movement which i m keen to contribute to.
uhh, well… i hope the things i am working on and i am fascinated by can add value to the community. my posts gonna be most likely about:
- life
- sex
- travel hacks and pictures that make you feel „fernweh“
- culture
- blockchain and other technologies that shape our foreseeable future
- personal growth - insights and inspiration
- (street) art, food, adventures
- scuba diving
- surfing experiences from a 40+ rookie
- simplicity
- healthy lifestyle
- transformation
- plant based nutrition, superfood, herbal remedies
- life hacking
- productivity
- entrepreneurship
- being location independent
- well…. everything that is related to celebrate my midlife "crisis", being the queen of my queendom and becoming the fittest, healthiest and greatest version of myself.
I m (fl)awesome as f*** and pretty point blank. And i m excited to be part of this amazing movement. 
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I love Lago Atitlan, and pretty much everything in Guatemala, @this-is-verena! You are really living a great life! I can't wait to see what your future articles will feature. I hope you do some about the wonderful place you are living now. I'm looking forward to reading your articles! Cheers!
thanks @mitneb! this is encouraging and i hope to build up my steem soon to be able to support other writers as well as writing own content.
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yaaayyy :-)
Very wonderful introduction post @this-is-verena! I have always wanted to do more traveling. Just don't really have the funds to start that kind of adventure. Congrats on living a dream! I look forward to hearing more about your travels!
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Thanks! Cant wait to publish more
Hey welcome to steemit. I always wanted to be nomad but I travel very limited. Hope to learn something from you :)
hey @skysnap, i hope to be an inspiration. live is trial and error in my case - and i love it. i hope you will like some of my pictures, when you cant travel by yourself sometimes.
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Welcome to Steemit. Wow, great introduction, looks like that you have much to share with us and so I'll follow you. I am interested in Permaculture too :)
sweet! it s a fantastic approach. happy if we can exchange ideas, experiences, places to volunteer, ...
Thanks very much :) yes sure we can. I have an idea of co-authoring posts on Steemit where bloggers are able to make posts together and I think that would be way cool. But anyway we can share ideas.
Hi and welcome to steemit. I hope you like it here. Enjoy your time and good luck on steemit!
thanks hanen! its gonna be awesome!
nice fotos!
thanks a lot. more to come. for sure :-)
welcome to this platform and I hope you enjoy making friends to us your fellow steemians.
Thanks, thats what i Hope for as well. :-)
Welcome to Steemit, Verena.
That's right we are called Steemians. :) You are an interesting and adventurous person. Glad to know that you have learned a lot more by traveling around. Well, no matter what you finally did introduce yourself and that's what counts. I will look forward to reading more from you, have fun. Steem On!
Thanks, @firepower. I feel like a total rooky using this name tho. Seems like e v e r y b o d y else has a fancy nikname. Am i weird??
You are most welcome. Nope, it's totally normal. Most people use their first and last name straight too not everyone have fancy names. :)
Verana, you sound like a Verana I met in Bali 8 years or so ago! I would be bizzare if it were you, you use a term that "my verana" loved from my australian friends and I ... FULL ON!! My Verana have a little girl (?), and a wild Raffie...!!! I wonder is it you? You look familiar, I'll cross my fingers and hope its you... did you stay in Seminyak, in a villa, 4 rooms pool in the middle, and the kicker, the hosts husband was in the first porno ever made???? sorry, these kind of co-incidences happen in my mad life. I have to ask. @steemsausage
hahahaha, i know that coincidences are numerous, but this is not me. I love the description of the seminyak villa, tho "pool in the middle, and the kicker, the hosts husband was in the first porno ever made?" HAHAHA
Ha ha ha.... yes the pool in the middle, not too many of them!! Ha ha ha, if you were my Verana, then you could never forget the husband!! Anyway, the co-incidences in my life keep coming in thick and fast, so I had to ask. Welcome to Steemit, you are doing better than me already!! Best of luck on the platform, i look forward to seeing your posts.
@steemsausage.
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Sweet :-)
Thanks!
Wow! I am really excited to read about your adventures! Welcome to Steemit! I'm also here because I was excited after reading now about this platform. And hey... I didn't even like social media, but I love blockchain applications... It tricked me into liking it... Anyway, see you around!
Yes! I am in Transit to South East Asia right now, but will be active again, once i got there
Hi Verena,
I think when you moved away from Berlin I replaced you... Have been living here for 3 years ;)
We have so much in common!!
I would love to learn more about your journey and especially Guatemala or anything South America - I love travelling but keep going to Asia. For some reason I think it's not save to travel alone as a woman in South America. All unfounded judgements probably, so I hope you can enlighten me on that!
I think I heard about Bitcoin in that same co-working space in Bali... ;)
Schön, dass ich Dich gefunden habe!
Anja
Lets keep in Touch :-)
That was a great intro. Glad you did it finally. I still have to introduce myself.... :0 ach! Yay!!! Come join @unmentionable if you feel like it!!
cool, thanks! i follow unmentionable :-)