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 December 25, 2005

My dear friends!

It has been a long time since I posted my last news for you. But you are lucky, it's Christmas time and time for gifts :-). Some of you have been asking all over the year why I am neglecting my website in such a way I did but the reason is that not much happened this year which would have been really worth of telling you.

Since summer 2005 I am working as an independent city guide but do also other small side jobs such as working as a translator at conferences, teaching English to students and doing some other small jobs. I didn't have a vacation for more than a year now and I know that most of you think that's quite unusual. Well, that's true but the the prize for having a freelance job. But don't worry, my travel passion and thirst for new places, languages and cultures is still there. I hope that in 2006 I will get the chance to explore and discover exciting and beautiful places again. However, I wasn't bored this year at all because several of you came to Schwerin and Wittenfoerden to visit me here. The furthest came all the way from Brasil and visited me even three times this year, thank you Tomaz! I am attaching a picture showing me and my Brasilian friends at the beach of Schwerin lake this summer. The second photo shows me in front of the cabrio sightseeing bus on which I was working quite a lot this year. I was sitting on top of it with a microphone explaining the visitors Schwerin's sights.

I wish you all MERRY CHRISTMAS and a good start into the new year! May it only bring us the best! And don't forget:

There is no moment in our life in which we can't follow a new path.
Charles de Foucauld (1858 - 1916)

With all my love, Teresa

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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...