Saskia Birkle
Saskia is 27 years old, born and raced in Freiburg/Germany, where she also successfully completed her bachelor degree in Business Administration/Tourism/Hotel Management in 2003. She then moved to New Orleans and worked for the Hilton New Orleans Riverside for almost 3 years (before and after Hurricane Katrina) before joining her fiance in Greenville in July 2006. She is now a Sales Manager for the Hilton Greenville. Her husband, who is also German, and Saskia got married in Germany in June 2006, but are planning on staying here in the US for as long as they keep the couple here ;o) Our cat “Wunderfitz” is their baby. She volunteered for the Humane Society and Hands on Greenville before, loves playing volleyball, going wakeboarding out on the lakes and snowboarding in the winter time, as well as painting and photography. Traveling is not only a big part of her job, but also her personal life. Throughout the years she has traveled all over Europe and the U.S., as well as lived in Nice/France and Washington State for several months. She is trying to speak fluently in German, English, French and a little Spanish.