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Overview

  • 14 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Hungarian, Spanish
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • human rights worker
  • Film and Photography + Social work
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

UKRANIAN FRIENDS! Please come and stay with me for as long as you need to. I am only accepting Ukranians at the moment.

CURRENT MISSION
After a hard working of 7 years running my own company in Budapest, I have decided to move on, try to start a new life somewhere else in the world. Arrived back home after several years of travel and working as a human rights worker at an NGO in Budapest and volunteering on the railway station too.

ABOUT ME

I am a well travelled girl, been to many countries, lived in many different cultures and I have seen and lived many things in the world, but still not enough. Every time I come home, stay for a few months, years (as last time) and decide that I still want to discover more. What I like about travelling is that it moves me out of my comfort zone, shows problems of life in a different aspect, I am happy for things that normally I would not be.
I have changed a lot in the past 1 year, suddenly sport and physical activity became very important, i take care of what I eat or drink, I dont party anymore as hard as used to and new aspects of life became important. Maybe I am getting old, but hey, I am only 29.

As of my profession, I have a degree in film and photography from Edinburgh, I have worked as an interior photographer for a while. In the past six years I had run my own short term management company in Budapest, running over 40 apartments but I have just quit. I have started studying social work but did not finish. I might start again somewhere else.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have been on CS for over 10 years, right now I would like to help out people fleeing Ukraina.

Interests

I am very impulsive, I try anything that comes in my way.
I like to check in every country how the green man at the pedestrian crossing is.
I like to walk around cities, towns. I like warm weather, i like water.
I love adrenalin, I like speed, like motorbiking and cycling. Horsebackriding, swimming, joga or any sport really. I like circus, I would like to become a circus artist, but just as a hobby. I would like to learn to roller skate, surf and dive.
I am very friendly, honest person with all my emotions written on my face :)

  • writing
  • photography
  • film making
  • dancing
  • dining
  • clubbing
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • cycling
  • sports
  • languages
  • mountains
  • techno
  • salsa

Music, Movies, and Books

couple of my favorites film: Buffalo 66, Dogtooth, Brown Bunny, Breaking the waves, Melancholia, Pusher, The royal Tenenbaums, The idiots, Texas Paris, i really like Michel Gondry's films, well Lars von Trier, some of David Lynch (lost highway, twin peaks), Mike Leigh, Christopher Nolan, Roy Andresson, some Polanski, Kyslowsky.
Black books and peep show anytime!

Any sought of music, folk, techno, goa, rock, balkan, gypsy! the xx, bjork, white stripes, gogol bordello, goran bregovic, david bowie, the cure, starfucker, cristal castles, modeselektor so on.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiked alone 1100 km in Central America, 3500 km in New Zealand.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook very well, and bake cakes. I have some funny stories, I just dont know how to tell them funnily. :)
I think I have positive vibe which I can share too. I am very good listener, I love hearing other people's story.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Chile, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Gibraltar, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Montenegro, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Ireland, Spain, United Kingdom, Uruguay

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