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Overview

  • 12 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Polish; learning English, Italian, Turkish
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2012
  • philologist, media specialist, tour leader, writer
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

be happy :)

Travel and experience as much as possible!

ABOUT ME

I am positive person with little ironic sense of humor, I like smiling and I do it a lot. Sometimes I may be seen as too naive or sincere, but it happens because I simply believe what people say. I'm trying to not judge very fast anyone, however I find first imperssion pretty right. I love travelling, learning new things, baking, reading, sleeping, writing, strolling, bicycling, drinking, eating, ice-skating, facebooking etc ;)

PHILOSOPHY

Good people give you happiness,
Bad people give you experience,
Worst people give you a lesson
and the Best people give you memories :)

"Sometimes life has a better idea..."

"The time you enjoy wasting is never wasted" :D

"Just relax and enjoy!"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Thanks to my sis, our guests in Krakow, hosts in European cities, friends, friends of my friends and couchsurfing meetings & parties.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Generally almost all of my experience was extremely positive, funny and inspiring to get to know the people, their stories and coutries better. Some of my couchsurfing friendships still last, and I really hope they will lastforever. I find this site simply amazing in uniting good willing people with open and trustful attitude towards others, unknown ones yet.

Interests

books: reading, writing
languages: speaking, learning
travels: reading, writing, doing
the Middle East: reading, writing, visiting
baking& cooking: doing, eating
yoga: doing

travel blogging: jatarzantyjane.wordpress.com

  • writing
  • books
  • singing
  • concerts
  • cooking
  • baking
  • yoga
  • partying
  • drinking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • blogging
  • opera
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Les amours imaginaires, 33 Scenes from Life, Ferzan Ozpetek's movies, Un pont a Istanbul, Marley&Me

Music: Kamp!, Parov Stelar, Franz Ferdinand, Placebo, Radiohead, Travis, Quantic, Sigur Ros, Mum, Jonsi, Bjork, Nina Zilli, Two Door Cinema Club, Editors, Fisz ...

Books: I love to read literally everything, but my favourite pieces are mainly from Postwar Novel period of American literature, like: John Steinbeck "Tortilla Flat", Kurt Vonnegut "The cat's cradle", Sylvia Plath "The Bell Jar", Truman Capote "Breakfast at Tiffany's", Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird", J.D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye".

As well I'm interested in Polish modern literature and I respect writings such persons like Dorota Maslowska, Mirek Nahacz, Michal‚ Witkowski, Izabela Sowa, Manuela Gretkowska, Sylwia Chutnik and so on.

Travel literature: Wojciech Cejrowski, Beata Pawlikowska, Ryszard Kapus›cin„ski

Others: Amelie Nothomb, poetry of Nazim Hikmet, Leopold Staff, Wisl‚awa Szymborska

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Concert of Sigur Ros in Warsaw 2009, at Skawinskiego Openair Opera was the thing that inspired me to make a step towards coming true my big dream- visit Iceland! So one year later, after many months of planning, booking flight tickets and saving money I finally realised my dreamed-of expedition. I did it with my sis and our close friend and the time we spent there was absolutely fantastic and fabulous, mainly because we have managed to see even more what we wanted, we met so many positive and helpful Icelanders who hosted us or agreed to hitch us a lift, and everything we experienced, like sleeping in a tent near by singing waterfall and lately in those days erupted volcano Eyjafjallajökull is really unforgettable!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Poland, Turkey

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