CURRENT MISSION

Know myself, live what i am&iubire (love in romanian language, it is untranslatable)

ABOUT ME

I love to travel, I love to live.
I dream. I am happy to be able to be myself most of the times, that's a lot!
I support Palestinians in the Palestinian - Israel conflict;
I am in love with ancient civilizations, especially: Persians; Phoenicians, Dacia, and ancient India.
I play basketball, ping pong and swim constantly.
My ideal way of living is to travel around the world and make the best of it and of all, create and dance.

I can say i am lucky and privileged on this world, because of a paradisiac childhood and an extatic adollescence, (but a depressive, most boring period in the university enviroment).
I don't hate anything in this world, i just dislike some situations or people at some point in my life for a short period - the one exception is mice, rats, guinea pigs, and all the the related animals in this specie, which i dislike a lot.....
I like the clarinet in jazz, clavecin, piano, and cello.
I grew up in a green orchard of : plum trees; apple; cherry; pear; straberry; rasberry, and many more....and a lot of flowers............so almost everything that is colourful and alive attracts me........
I travelled to India, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, Slovakia, Spain, UK, UAE, Tunisia, lived in Canada.
I am sure i will make many friends with Couch Surfing and i will be happy to offer anyone a couch, a friend and a lot of smiles when coming to Romania!

PHILOSOPHY

1. ABSOLUTE TOLLERANCE.
2. FULL CONFIDENCE IN ONESELF AND ONESELF'S DREAMS.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to travel and discover, feel, what is there, starting from the inside towards the outside... of people who lived there, and already are what i desire to know, from lively markets, small restaurants, non-touristic places...then, come museums, art in general, architecture, which attracts me naturally.

Interests

Film Dirrecting;
Sports; Literature";
Hindi and Arabic language;
Meeting people from different cultures, especially from countries as: Armenia, all South America, Kenya, Algeria, Iran, Irak, Siria, Egipt, Japan, Russia, South Coreea, and Hong Kong.....yeah!
Arabic music and literature;
French New Wave - film; Serghei Paradjanov.
...and any cultural event, in which i can be involved in or only watch.
Travelling;
Theatre; Avignon Theatre Festival.

• arts
• literature
• festivals
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• basketball
• table tennis
• cinema
• world history
• film directing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: all French New Wave;
"Sayat Nova","2046", "In the mood for love", "Days of Being Wild", "Last Tango in Paris", "Down by Law", "Stranger than Paradise", "Tokio Monogatari", "Ohio", "Close up" by Abbas Kiarostami, "Half Moon" by Ghobadi (iranian)
"The Clerks" by Kevin Smith,
All Fellinni 's, Ingmar Bergman's, Luis Bunuel's;
"Todo sobre mi madre" - Almodovar;
Books:
"Ada or Ardor" by Nabokov, is one experience that is still influencing and changing me;
"Reading Lolita in Teheran" by Azar Nafizi, and amazing book written by a curageous woman.
"Lolita"; "L'ecume des jours" by Boris Vian;
" The Autumm of Patriarch" by G.Marquez;
" The War of the End of the World" by M.Vargas Llosa;
" The Trial" by Kafka;
All Nabokov"s
I like theatre plays by Ibsen, Moliere, Eugen Ionesco;
Cartarescu and Eliade - romanian authors.
Music:
Jazz; Medieval classic; Baroque; Rai; Arabic; Classical Indian Music; Sufiana.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Amazing is all India, it can't be compared with anythign in this world....it is said that whatever is TRUE and REAL there in one place, very close you will find the exact opposite. I recomend the "Indian Tibet" in North, Taj Mahal, Varanasi, dhabas ( simple places to eat along the road, usually for truck drivers); all their chapati 's and nan's ( bread) and fruit juices in the street, made in front of you, all around the year.
The sky of Beirut, and the lights of it at night, spread on the hills in the east and reflecting into the sea on the west!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Tell you about what it means to be a peasant in Romania, what is the soul of a human being from the south of the country, Oltenia. It is almost too limited and too objective for what we could offer, and what we can offer is not acknowledged by ourselves...but to keep it "objective", i can share my love for the hundreds of art films i have seen, be warm, my curiosity and desire to know you, who you are, what are your traditions and your origin, i like to listen, i like to express myself too. I can share with you, being myself, my culture, my memory, black/dry sense of humour, the voluptuousness of "seeing", hearing, tasting.
I can share with my host to be, romanian poetry, music, traditional dancing, visually strong imagery.

Countries I’ve Visited

Hungary, India, Italy, Lebanon, Slovakia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, India, Romania, Tunisia

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