CURRENT MISSION

Help people and see as much as i can in this world

ABOUT ME

Volunteer for 5 years (BEST Timisoara - Board of European Students of Technology), great hitchhiker, in love with my country.

My favourite way of traveling is hitchhiking, by now have already traveled 160 000+ km by hitchhiking, in Romania and Europe :)

I have started a traveling blog: http://drumliber.ro where I want to create a small community willing to help and show people the good parts of Romania, and there are a lot! Until now it is only in Romanian language, hope to make it bilingual in some time (you can use Google translation to have almost a good translation :D)

Last year we launched another websites, one with Romanian tourist attractions (http://obiectiveturistice.drumliber.ro) :)

PHILOSOPHY

trust yourself

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can teach Romanian, I can teach "cheers" in ~10 languages (the greeting when drinking beer), I can juggle a little (thanks Andrei Feldt!), I can teach you to solve a Rubik cube, I can definately cook some Romanian basic dishes :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted before people coming to timisoara, from 1 to 5 people :)

Couchsurfed in Vienna (at Christine Hinterlang, a really great host!), and also in a long trip in December with 5 more great people (from US, UK, Germany), a few places in France and Andorra: Biarritz, Pau, Perpignan, Toulouse, Montpellier, Nice, Grenoble, Canillo, etc. Is was a great experience and I want to do it again and again!

I have some really nice friends on Couchsurfing!

Interests

Music, ecology, traveling, pictures. I want to show to the world how beautiful Romania is.

• dining
• cooking
• beer
• drinking
• technology
• traveling
• juggling
• blogging
• music
• ecology
• languages
• hitchhiking
• volunteering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

An inconvenient truth, The Hero (Chinese movie), Big Fish, Ghost in the Shell (all series), Snatch, Filantropica (Romanian movie), Taxi, Tais Toi (French movies), Das Leben der Anderen (German movie), Cliffhanger, Schindler's List, Emir Kusturica's movies

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seen: Cheile Nerei in Romania, Bucegi mountains, Cheile Bicazului, Parang - Pestera Muierilor, Danube Delta, etc.
Done: hitchhiking for (25.11.2008) almost 77 000 km in total, last time to Tallinn.

Update: 105 000 km until 20th of August 2009 :)
Update 2: 141 000 km until feb 2011 :)
Update 3: 160 000+ km until nov 2012 :)

A whole month (December 2008) of traveling by hitching in France & Andorra with 5 other people, with costumes. I started the trip earlier and went to Madrid before the long French trip :D

Without any plan, I was hosted together with 2 more girls I traveled with (the forth one in our group, a guy, had to leave earlier) by a local woman in Danube Delta (Ro); this woman (Dana) saw that one of the girls was in a bad condition and took us all in her house, treated the ill girl all night long, gave us a sleeping place and food. That was a great experience, it is a good example showind that there are great people around us!

Teach, Learn, Share

teach: hitchhiking, project management, time management, human resources management, Romanian language :)
learn: cultural differences, to cook some easy-and-tasty meals
share & teach: Romanian traditional omelet with mamaliga :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Romania

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