I'm an American who moved here to Germany a couple months ago to get my Master's here. My German isn't great yet, but I'm trying pretty hard because I'll be here for two years.

I like to pester people into having arm-wrestling contests with me which I tend to lose.
I enjoy exploring and getting lost in new places.
I like to ask people weird questions about their thoughts on human nature and about strange hypothetical situations.
My social interactions and relationships with my friends/family as well as my academic success are the two things that are most important to me. Sometime they end up at odds with each other though...
I like thinking, and dancing, and listening, and food, and making music.
I'm probably laughing at you, but it's okay, you can laugh at me too.

I am vibrant, curious, and thoughtful

I'm working on my master's right now in archaeology at Tuebingen University with a particular interest in paleoanthropology, early modern humans, the European Neolithic, and Neanderthals.

I'm really good at school...lame...I know. But I'm good at it so leave me alone.
I'm also really good laughing at things and being slightly mischievous.
I'm pretty good at playing the viola and I am pretty much awesome at the game quarters.
I'm good at being up for adventures as well as nights in with board games.

What does this even mean? Most people I know aren't in the habit of letting me know what they first notice about me so I feel like whatever I put here is going to be somewhat bullshit.

I guess I'll play along and take a stab at it.
I think I laugh and smile a lot. I also think I have some pretty awesome blond hair.

Books...I really wish I had more time to read for pleasure right now. I get so absorbed in books that I don't want to do anything else so I honestly try to avoid them these days. There would be too many that I've loved to really list them.

Movies...I really hate this question. I'll watch a movie and I'll like or even love it, but I'll probably never watch it again. That's why it's hard to list movies as my favorites. Same thing with books, really. There are books that I have loved, but I either read them too long ago to consider them favorites or they are too new in my memory to be favorites. Does that make any sense? I guess it doesn't have to, because that's how I feel.

I listen to a lot of classical music. I love Shostakovich, Brahms, Bloch, Dvorak, St. Saens. As far as the rest of my tastes go, I listen to your general indie stuff, electronica, cheesy dance pop, bluegrass. All kinds of things. As with books and music, my tastes change too quickly to comfortably list favorites. I listen to an album constantly for a month, and then I am done with it. My taste in classical music is the only thing that remains a constant in any sort of way.

I adore food. Indian, Thai, Middle Eastern. I'm really into fish and sweet potatoes (although not necessarily together) right now though.

Knitting

My podcasts (This American Life, Radiolab, Savage Love, the list goes on)

Jstor

Music

Spicy food

People to have adventures with

Future plans, improving my German, stratigraphy.

I also spend a lot of time daydreaming acting out strange scenarios in my head.

With friends at a house or in a bar. Such a typical answer, but I don't know what else to say. I have a pretty active social life.

You should message me if you're not old enough to be a parent of mine.