''Finding pleasure in diversity''- Mario Vargas Llosa

ABOUT ME
"You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen, the seven masks I have fashioned an worn in seven lives, I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting,"Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves."[...] And when I reached the marketplace, a youth standing on a house top cried, "He is a madman." I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time, the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks."

/The Madman/Author: Kahlil Gibran/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To discover, learn, meet. Taste the whole world.

Interests

People - People - watch them, listen, understand, talk to, discover; cultures, languages; music, films, books, any kind of performing, creating, showing

**What I love: - traveling, looking in every little corner, talking with strangers on the street; interesting conversations that last for a night, nature, breakfast during daybreak next to the lake, walking in the forest, playing with the snowballs during Winter, cinema, learning new cultures, theater, laughing, watermelons, joking, funning, animals /but only the furry ones/

What I am allergic to is populism; ignorance; complaining, boorishness, overusing word ''pathetic''

• writing
• books
• theater
• breakfast
• walking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• languages
• multicultural

Music, Movies, and Books

I love cinema, I belong to Al Pacino and "Godfather", Jim Jarmush, Lars von Trier, Pedro Almodovar, Jan Jakub Kolski, Fatih Akin. Kim Ki-duk, and the rest of the world

Books: reportage: Jacek Hugo-Bader, Wojciech Jagielski; Mario Vargas Llosa, Erich Fromm, Tahar ben Jelloun, in love with Shantaram, Olga Tokarczuk

Music: Depeche Mode (RIP Andy Fletcher), The Killers, RHCP, REM, Antony, and The Johnson, Nick Cave, Amy Winehouse, Adam Pieronczyk, U2, Kings of Leon, Interpol, Cocorosie, PJ Harvey, Starsailor, Leonard Cohen, Beirut, Skin, Portishead, Faithless, Franz Ferdinand, Editors; Thelouise Monk, John Coltrane; etc. jazz and folk, if you want to make me happy bring me music or a movie from you country

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Syrian desert and villages in the sand storm. **The Balkans...I hope to go there again.. Sicily the smell, the noise, the color, the taste....; TIBET, TIBET!TIBET! new on my list: PANAMA

What I Can Share with Hosts

my narrow perspective & togetherness

Countries I’ve Visited

Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, Norway, Panama, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Nepal, Poland, United Kingdom

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