My name is Emese. (Balassa is my last name. )
My Instagram: @e_mesesutak

With my partner (Ákos) we travel a lot and we are freelancers in our small business (Education & Langauge Nomdas): https://www.facebook.com/educationlanguagenomads). We teach Hungarian, Spanish, translate and I do team building workshops.

I amHungarian , but I grew up in Vajdaság (Vojvodina), the north of Serbia. I feel lucky that I had the opportunity to work as a volunteer with children and people who live under conditions of poverty. These works formed my personality and my view of the word.

I love to travel, to hike, the nature and to meet new people.
I studied to be a Spanish teacher and a hungarian speach therapist assistant for kids, and I love it. I am very interested in alternative teaching methods, for example the Waldorf pedagogy or the experimental pedagogy what we used in our summer camps.
I taught hungarian for Spanish/Serbian kids and during my free time I used to work in the Smiling Hospital Foundation (unfortunatelly in this academic year I didn`t have time to do this)
During 2 years I was working as a Spanish Language teacher in a hungarian high school in Serbia and I loved it! Love to teach, I love that as a teacher we can show new ways and posibilties for the students and sometimes change their life. Being teacher is the best :)
In the future I will start to work as a trainer. My topic is the Benefits of using mobiles and different applications in the education. I am really love with this topic.
I love animals. I don't eat them. I try to be vegan but in the Balcan region sometimes it is really hard, so sometimes I am vegetarian.
I danced in a hungarian folk group, I like very much my culture`s folk dance and the music, too. I think it`s beautifull.

I prefer to host the couchsurfers who mention something personal in the request, and I see that she/he read my profile, and the letter is not just a copy-paste message.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I heard for the first time about Cs 5 years ago and I think it is perfect to meet new and interesting people from different cultures. A have a lot of experiences as a host, and some experience as a surfer. Until now with everybody I had the feeling that we met each other since long time ago (I hope that they felt the same :) )
I like very much the meeting of different cultures, the Surfer`s stories,. the openess of the Surfers, getting new friends...

Interests

• animals
• folk dancing
• vegetarian
• traveling
• folk music
• hiking
• volunteering
• nature
• cultures
• vegetarianism
• harry potter
• children
• pedagogy
• spanish language
• zerowaste
• taizé

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Budapest Bár, Csík Zenekar (folk music), Szabó Balázs, Lóci játszik, Palya Bea, latin music
Book: I love to read, I love every book of Barbara Erskine, P. Coelho, autobiographical novels, everything in contact with children rights.
The book impressed me most is (and I think it changed my life towards volunteering) A Long Way Gone: Memories of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah, Harry Potter of course
Movies: Mamma mía, También la lluvia

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was volunteer in 16 summer camps for children, 6 camps for children/
people with disabilities and I went alone to Moldva (north-eastern part of Romania) and I worked as a volunteer in a hungarian school for the hungarian minorities. My biggest dream is work for the UNICEF or to be volunteer in Kenya.

We went to Georgia and Armenia in our honeymoon, thanks to this platform (and some similar Facebook groups) we have a lot of new local friends, it was amazing

Teach, Learn, Share

"The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work." (Patricia Clafford)

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation". (Platón)

"Every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead." (Finding Neverland)

What I Can Share with Hosts

My experiences, my culture, some vegetarian food (unfortunatelly my knowledge in the kitchen with hungarian foods is not so good)

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Mexico, Romania, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia, Spain