CURRENT MISSION

drawing perfect circles

ABOUT ME

people's minds, cosmic scribbles, literary games, nonexistent passwords, cityscapes, imaginary diagnosing, immigrant narratives, aikido attempts, photographic visions

PHILOSOPHY

forever young, existentially disturbed, and crossing the borders.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host and I surf. I started CSing when I lived in the US. I have met oh so many cool people like this.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

this is great! i love it!

Interests

entering new spaces via traveling, imaginary worlds via reading, myself via other people.

• education
• reading
• traveling
• teaching
• aikido
• learning
• pedagogy

Music, Movies, and Books

books:

Native Speaker by Chang Rae-Lee, La Rayuela by Cortazar, Brave New World by Huxley, Idiot by Dostoevsky, Madam Bovary by Flaubert, the Sound and the Fury by Faulkner, The Magus by Faules, poems by Brodsky, Octavio Paz, Walter Whitman; La Maison de rendez-vous, Repetition by Robbe-Grillet, The ring is closed by Knut Hamsun, etc.

movies:
The Trial, Citizen Cane by Orson Welles
Breaking the waves, Dancing in the dark, Five obstacles by Lars von Trier
Madam Bovary by Chabrol
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello by Godard
Clockwork orange by Kubrick
Funny games, Klavierspielerin by Haneke
The last tango in Paris by Bertolucci

photographers:
Nan Goldin, Andre Kertesz, Michael Wolf

music:
afroperuvian jazz, jazz, hip-hop, contemporary classical, etc.

artists:
Marina Abramović, Cindy Sherman, Modigliani, Magritte, Bruegel, de Chirico, Cy Twombly.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I did bungee jumping (twice!), gave my phone number for a 100 dollars (I did), missed the flight from the States to France, lived for a year in Scandinavia, worked in the casino in the US, started an academic path, moved to Germany, shot a documentary in Slovakia, became a journalist in Ukraine and now I am living and teaching in Berlin.

Teach, Learn, Share

Let us talk, teach, learn and share!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share a good laugh and a good story!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Monaco, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Slovakia, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Sweden, Ukraine, United States

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