A better way to contact me is to find me on trustroots.org (search for location).

ABOUT ME

I'm a musician (multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and composer) and polyglot. I've always been very curious, so what I love most is any kind of creative activity: improvising, learning things, inventing stuff (theories, tools, ...), writing (songs, poetry, ...). For the last 5 years I've been living in an autonomous community in the French countryside, so I also like things like group dynamics, gardening, cooking, freelance journalism (articles, radio, documentary), ...

Что привело меня на Couchsurfing

meeting real people, sharing!

before couchsurfing existed, I was on a website called hospitalityclub.org (my name there is fretje; and because nobody's taking care of the website, I'm still listed as living in katowice, poland :))

Интересы

people, music, language, reading, music, growing food, community, music, writing, travelling, music, teaching, did i mention music?

• writing
• poetry
• documentaries
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• guitar
• piano
• trumpet
• hiking
• agriculture
• freelancing
• journalism
• languages
• psychology
• hitchhiking

Музыка, кино и книги

i discovered the beatles when i was 7 :) just to name one :) the list is too long... anything between monk and radiohead, salsa and conceptual, stravinsky and shakira. and of course General Bazaar and the Cardinal Points of Conspiracy or any other real non-famous cool music projects. like to read philosophy, psychology but also poetry, good literature, ... cortazar kundera tagore achterhuis safranski kapuscinski charles ducal ...

Классная вещь, которую я сделал(-а)

making people happy through music, growing real food to feed people I love, community life with all sorts of beautiful crazy people for the last 7 years, helping to keep seeds out of the hands of corporations, riding on the roof of a freight train in Texas, 4 days in Tektake village near Selibaby in Mauritania, busking in the streets of Odessa, hitch-hiking from Brussels to Dakar and back, conducting a big band in Poland, squatting Brussels for a week with indignados from all over Europe, interviewing Zaïna in Morocco for Radio Zinzine ...

Учу, учусь, делюсь опытом и информацией

music (guitar piano voice bass percussion trumpet harmony composing songwriting improvisation jazz bossa nova rock etc...)
languages (any of the ones I know) and other aspects/ways of communication
agriculture (diverse - gardening, cereals, goat herding, ...)
psychology and consciousness
philosophy and life experiences...
basic dancing to absolute beginners :)
stories!

Чем я могу поделиться с хостами

mostly sincerity, I hope :) as well as critical ways of seeing things, and all of the above, obviously :)

Где я побывал(-а)

Austria, Belize, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mauritania, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Norway, Portugal, Russian Federation, Senegal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Где я жил(-а)

Belgium, China, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland