Interests

People, traveling, photography, social & economic development, history, movies, music, visual arts, snowboarding, God, evolution, children, youth, guitar, philosophy, ethics, cosmology (planets, suns, the universe), indigenous peoples, beauty, nature, animals, purpose of life, the stories of struggle of my fellow human beings... the wonders of the universe in general.

• animals
• arts
• photography
• beauty
• ethics
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• snowboarding
• history
• religion
• science
• visual arts

Music, Movies, and Books

:: Music ::

Love music of all genres. Here's a few artist who will not fade: Lauryn Hill, Santana, Michael Jackson, Beethoven, Bach. Current new artist I'm loving: Brymo (and more West African music).

:: TV shows ::

The Wire, Lost, Lie to Me, Heroes, Prison Break, House, The Cosby Show, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Friends, Scrubs, Whose Line Is It Anyway

:: Films ::

Forrest Gump, Freedom Writers, My Name is Khan, Veer Zaara, City of God, 12 Angry Men etc...

:: Some of the most inspiring books ::

Bahá'u'lláh - The Hidden Words
'Abdu'l-Bahá - Some Answered Questions
Bahá'u'lláh - The Tabernacle of Unity
William Sears - God Loves Laughter
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J.R.R Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Little Prince
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
Torey Hayden - Tiger's Child
Richard Adams - Watership Down
Väinö Linna - Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier)
Jostein Gaarder - Sophies World
Rien Poortvliet - Noah's Ark

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Community service in the Navajo Nation in Arizona, USA. Learned so much from the wonderful people I met.

In 2015 I did an internship in Chicago, USA. Found my career passion - promoting Service-Learning.

Teach, Learn, Share

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

- Albert Einstein

"Be the change that you want to see."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you want to be a better human being, you should probably practice."

- Stephan Montgomery-Andersen (my friend)

"A small group of dedicated people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

- Vaclav Havel

PS. Let me know if you know any secrets to how to put this stuff into action!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Italy, United States