CURRENT MISSION

To see the snows of Kilimanjaro before they melt away...

ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Ania - a friendly and easy-going person who likes to exchange views on different things.
The type who loves laughing and smiling :)

PHILOSOPHY

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― Jack Kerouac

"I love not Man the less, but Nature more" Lord Byron

"La vida es un mar tan bravo, abraza los momentos lindos"

"Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes" [Paracelsus]

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I do not have so much "CouchSurfing experience" yet, but I try to get it better :)

Interests

music, flora&fauna, vegetarianism, Nature, people, bats, mountains, hitchhiking, books, movies, green tea, ecology, organic food, sustainable development and many other things...

• books
• dining
• organic food
• movies
• music
• ecology
• hitchhiking
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

movies:
Tsotsi, Babel, Into the wild, The Constant Gardener, Azuloscurocasinegro, Nordwand, Lisbon story, Hemel, Baraka, Samsara, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, La puta y la ballena, Meet Joe Black, The Last King of Scotland, Home, Blood diamond, Masai-The Rain Warriors, Big fish, Code 46, Hotel Rwanda, The Fountain, Shooting Dogs, Requiem for a dream, Good bye Lenin, The pianist, Inglourious Basterds, The boy in the striped pyjamas, La vita e bella, Behind enemy lines, Enemy at the gates, XXY, Black hawk down...

music:
first of all: music made by nature. I'm also fond of soundtracks (Amelia, Gladiator, The fountain, Requiem for a Dream...); Moby, Sigur Rós, Eddie Vedder, Stereophonics, U2, Imogen Heap, Massive attack, Portishead, Hammock, Pearl Jam, Ainda, Jarabe de palo, M83, Genaro, Chambao, Kings of Leon, Goran Bregovic, Pink Floyd, Fatboy slim, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Florence and the machine, Lykke Li, Emancipator, Simon and Garfunkel, The Cranberries, Madredeus, Chemical Brothers, Grand avenue, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Strachy na lachy, Kult, Raz Dwa Trzy, Akurat, Bez Jacka, Indios Bravos, Switchfoot, happysad; composers: Yann Tiersen, Hans Zimmer, Clinton Shorter, Danny Elfman, Thomas Newman, Michael Giacchino, Alexandre Desplat, James Newton Howard; Lo-Fi, Lounge, Trip hop, Chillout, Indie rock, Ambient, House, Instrumental, Deep house...

books:
-The Shadow of the Sun; The soccer war; Lapidarium (R. Kapuscinski),
- Traktat o luskaniu fasoli (W. Mysliwski)
-MW; Dobry (Waldemar Lysiak),
-The Alchemist; The Pilgrimage; The Devil and Miss Prym (P.Coelho)
-Tsotsi (Athol Fugard)
-Animal Farm; Down and out in Paris and London (G. Orwell)
-The Unbearable Lightness of Being (M. Kundera)
-Heart of Darkness (J.Conrad)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

There are so many things I should write down right here... :)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can help with Polish language. I am well up in environmental issues (fauna, ecology, biodiversity, etc.). I'm keen on bats (chiropterology), their habitats and conservation. Well, some people say that I make the best apple pie they have ever tasted :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden