CURRENT MISSION

To visit all monasteries in Bulgaria

ABOUT ME

Well, after living in Dallas, Texas for 11 years, I am back to Sofia, Bulgaria and I am ready to start hosting my friends from U.S. who I miss dearly. I am a bit nerdy but I can party up as well :-) I love: travel, nature, P90X and Insanity, yoga, different cultures, salsa dancing and Latin music. If you meet me, you would notice that I have a smile on most of the time (blaming my deep happy face wrinkles on that) :-) Most of my friends in the U.S. were from all over the world and I loved learning about their countries and cultures...My mom suddenly passed away so moving back to Bulgaria was a difficult period but I slowly adjusted to things...

PHILOSOPHY

Very little is needed to be happy...adapted from Marcus Aurelius

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci

"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." Michael Evans

"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong." William J. H. Boetcker

"Love is not by choice, but by chance. To stay in love is not by chance, but by work. To get out of love is not by work, but by choice."

"Intelligence is like underwear: It's important to have it, but you don't have to show it off."

"Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it includes elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings. Among the major troublemakers society has known, many were well-educated and had great knowledge, but they lacked moral education in qualities such as compassion, wisdom and clarity of vision." Dalai Lama

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can show you around while I am re-discovering Bulgaria myself. Please do not contact me if you do any sort of drugs or smoke a lot and need to do it in the presence of others.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have not hosted anyone yet and have not been a guest to anyone either but have many friends who use CS and have great feedback....

Interests

Soccer, Basketball, Formula 1, Tennis, Skiing, P90X, Insanity, Yoga, Running, Salsa dancing, Hiking, Sushi, Bulgarian and Mexican cuisine...

• dancing
• salsa dancing
• bachata
• cumbia
• education
• yoga
• running
• partying
• traveling
• billiards
• music
• latin music
• hiking
• skiing
• basketball
• soccer
• tennis
• swimming
• bowling
• business
• teaching
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Love Latin music - salsa, merengue, bachata

Books: Paulo Coelho, Tim Ferriss

Movies/TV: The Hangover, anything with Louis De Funes, Rush Hour, The Office

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Kayaked at night into a bio-luminescent lagoon in Puerto Rico; drove along a river in Algeria with wild monkeys jumping over our car; Bulgarian nature; rode crazy roller coasters and survived; swam with stingrays in Cayman Islands...so much more

Teach, Learn, Share

I could teach you: all about business, management, psychology, and human resources; PowerPoint; ice-skating; playing pool; English and Bulgarian; salsa/bachata/merengue/cumbia/cha-cha (don't know guys moves...)

You could teach me: improve my Spanish (used to be fluent but have not practiced in over 15 years and now English has taken over); swimming (can't do it for my life!); skiing (I ski but was never any good); bowling (no one wants me on their team - my average score is under 50...:-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cayman Islands, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Algeria, Bulgaria, United States

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