CURRENT MISSION

learn chinese

ABOUT ME

I love the mountains, wind in my hair, the rain falling on my face, warm nights under the stars, the smell of pine trees in the air, rock music, skiing, rowing, eating :) esp random forest fruits, sunshine and lying on the grass...the gentle weeping of a guitar or wee melodies...i enjoy little things a lot..oh and I love trains, old, dodgy graffittied trains that travel slowly through mountains...where im able to hang my head out of the window like a dog :)

PHILOSOPHY

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

"sometimes i like to sit and think, and sometimes i just like to sit"
winnie the pooh

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

surf and host?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

surfed and hosted in China, Taiwan, Russia, Poland, Mongolia, UK, Bulgaria

Interests

great people, languages, music, nature, crafts, philosophy, cats, chocolate, food... :)

• dancing
• crafts
• traveling
• knitting
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• rowing
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

love every country's traditional music!
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Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Pink Floyd, Deep purple, Bob Dylan. I am wishing I was born a few decades earlier to be able to go to Woodstock and hear Jimmy Hendrix, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin and so on...I am also into Jethro Tull, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen..blues.. Big Mama, Mississippi Fred Mc Dowell and other old blues black guys from the mountains, as well as irish and scottish violins, mandolins (andy irvine!)and so on...
I love the Balkan rhythms and mixtures of them and rock - Bijelo Dugme, Pero Deformero Goran Bregovic , Gogol Bordello

Movies - the barber of syberia, forest gump, black cat white cat,snatch,hero,trainspotting, LOTR, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the green mile, benny and joon,dead man,The Tuman show, into the wild :) fight club, the gods must be crazy, one flew over the cocoo's nest,all of Lars fon Trier's movies, Kar Wai Wong, Zhang Yimou......In general - think movies and loads of documentaries

BOOKS - The little prince,catch 22, DUNE, LOTR, catcher in the rye, the tao of pooh, the te of piglet, king rat, oscar wild,john grisham,Terry Pratchet, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley,Jules Verne, Carlos Castaneda, Zhuangzi, William Blake...Chomsky...Stiglitz

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

a day in the woods with my granny and the village's herd of goats, picking berries and herbs, resting under a tree and listening to old stories :)
Climbing the Great wall, watching the sunrise on Yellow mountain above the clouds!
Cycling around the island of Taiwan without spending almost any money, sleeping, taking showers and eating in police stations!

Teach, Learn, Share

well, i can teach you to swear in bulgarian and chinese,which is a necessary life skill, dance traditional bulgarian dancing, make your own cheese and yogurt, milk a goat...? knit a pair of socks? i dont reallt have any special talents or skills, just little things, but i can teach you how to enjoy little things :)

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Mongolia, Poland, Russian Federation, South Korea, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bulgaria, China, Taiwan, United Kingdom

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