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Overview

  • 2 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Bulgarian, English; learning Russian, Spanish
  • 44, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • I work for a company that makes research equipment. It's ...
  • BA in Computer science and Psychology, MA in Psychology
  • From Varna, Bulgaria and Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Create a video and photo documentary of my travels that I can share with friends.

ABOUT ME

I love to travel and to relax all the same. I've spent the last 11 years mostly away from home because I was studying and then working in the states and I am now coming back to Bulgaria but will probably be traveling quite often. I am into filming and photography. I LOVE playing beach volleyball. I am not a fan of living in big cities even though they are fun to visit - I prefer nature. I love the unpredictability associated with traveling because it is all to easy to let my own daily life become quite predictable otherwise.
I have a low threshold of excitement so I tend to have a great time enjoying simple things :)
Like most people, I like hanging out with people with a sense of humor and hope that I have a sense of humor myself.

PHILOSOPHY

I want to learn as much as possible about life without trying to get a recipe for living.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am now all set up in my new place and have a couch/airbed available :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None, but I have lots of friends who've hosted people or have stayed with others and I was encouraged by their experiences.

Interests

1. Beach volleyball
2. Understanding how the mind works (I must really like beach volleyball if this is 2nd now :)
3. Video
3.5 Photography

  • photography
  • documentaries
  • traveling
  • volleyball
  • history
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: Baraka
Books: I am thorn on this one. And I am also interested in something new. So I'll just tell you what I am reading right now: Phantoms in the Brain.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Actually one of my most amazing experiences came from seeing an object millions of years old. I spent a full hour at least just staring at the T-rex skeleton in the museum in Museum of natural history in DC. I didn't expect that would be such an experience but I realized you just can't get a proper perspective for some things without seeing them first hand.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am able to teach a little about photography and video filming and editing.

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