CURRENT MISSION

(secret mission)

ABOUT ME

A bon vivant and beauty lover. I cherish life and everything it brings- an incurable optimist although huge dark clouds do gather on my brow occasionally. Sometimes feeling pointless, I'm a dreamer, I loose my keys, I have problems with factual memory but very good analytical skills, I value justice, I feel very happy in big spaces and when I sing, I think sense of humour and art can cure you out of everything.

Together with Guillaume we are the cynique-romantique :)

PHILOSOPHY

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted many people (especially when living in France) and couchsurfed a couple of times too in Paris, Prague, Turkey. Every time it was different but every time was an eye opener.

Interests

literature&poetry: Modernism/Postmodernism, mostly written in English, literary criticism

visual arts: especially painting and expressionism

music: piano, romantic, alternative, with good words, jazz... I'm a meloman

baking: cookies, cakes, buns, for him

traveling&Islam (borrowed from my BF)

Yoga, bike riding

also: dance, society, culture, minorities, psychology, bible studies, myths, antropology, other people.

• fish
• arts
• culture
• literature
• poetry
• singing
• beauty
• dancing
• baking
• yoga
• traveling
• painting
• music
• jazz
• piano
• cycling
• fishing
• muslim
• psychology
• visual arts

Music, Movies, and Books

important are Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Mar Adentro (Alejandro Amenábar) and movies by Mohsen & Samira Makhmalbaf, The Piano (Jane Campion)

Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Coetzee, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Martin Amis, André Gide, Gombrowicz, Konwicki. poetry by Yeats, Plath, Thomas, Zbigniew Herbert, ee cumming

Chopin, Rachmaninov, Camille, Tori Amos, fado, flamenco, many soundtracks, Nirvana, Hindi Zahra, Keth Jarrett..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've backpacked in the Balcans, Turkey, Central Asia and Iran and lived in Azerbaijan for one year, I skydived in France and prayed to sacred fish in Turkey so that Allah gives me children.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Azerbaijan, France, Ireland, Malaysia, Poland, United Kingdom

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