Teresa Beck

My name is Teresa "Joy" Beck, also called PRINCIPESSA.

My birthday is on 28 February 1975. Congratulations and gifts are always welcome!

What most excites me about life is the ability to travel the world!!

This space wouldn't be enough to tell you all the places I already have been to since the reunification of Germany! I guess it's not big enough either to mention all the places I am dreaming of still to visit! Here are just a few: New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, South and Central America, Ireland, Scotland, Southern Italy, ...

I am still looking for sponsors! Travel partners are welcome, too.

NEWS from April 10, 2005

Well....I made it! I am officially 30 years old! Actually it has been more than a month now and I still didn't get the chance to say THANKS to all of you who have thought of me on my special day! I received many emails, phone calls, sms, letters and gifts from all over the world for which I would like to thank you all very much! At first it was a strange feeling to turn 30. I felt like a new stage of my life will start and I felt a bit of panic getting old too fast. My grandpa really scared me by saying that I already have lived half of my life now. I replied that I believe it was only a third or even less :-)! However, Adlai Ewing Stevenson once said "It is not the years in our life but the life in our years that counts." and I think this is quite true! So we all should try to get the most possible out of each day and live it as it could be our last! Enjoy life, have fun and don't ever worry about age ;-).

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FROM THEN TO NOW - ABOUT ME

I have studied over the past years Business Studies in Tourism in a small city called Kempten in Bavaria which most Americans believe that's all Germany is about.

But it isn't! I was born in Rostock, right at the Baltic Sea, in the nice state of Beck's Residence (© Johannes Beck) Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania which is situated in the north of Germany. We are the state less densely populated in Germany. We've got impressive sandy beaches, rocky cliffs, many wonderful blue lakes and much more. Pure and natural!

Now my parents are living in Wittenfoerden near Schwerin, the capital of our state famous for its beautiful fairy-tale castle. Here I used to spend Christmas, Easter and part of my vacation over the past years. Finally I can call this place my home as well. In August 2001 I started working at the German Incoming General Agent AG in Schwerin in order My home near Schwerin to receive the official Travel Agent license in June 2002.

From August 2000 to February 2001 I was doing an internship at a tour operator in Seattle, the Rain Capital of the USA located on the shores of Puget Sound. It's a great city with almost daily beautiful sunrises and sunsets and not really that much rain at all! The snow-capped North Cascades to the East, the Olympic Peninsula with its unique rain forest to the West, the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and the Mount Rainier National Park to the South and the tranquile San Juan Islands and exciting Vancouver to the North; what better destination one could wish?!!

I CAN BE MYSELF...