CURRENT MISSION

Try everything.

ABOUT ME

Sometimes I feel like I am very new to this world. On one hand I am the kind of person who gets into her head and overanalyzes everything (you can most likely start a philosophical debate with me any time of the day). On the other hand I crave newness and experiences, I am curious, and I make it a habit to try everything, especially if I haven't tried it before, and especially if it scares me slightly. I like to explore things. I like to get to the bottom of things. I like to listen to people and their stories, and I like finding the right questions.

PHILOSOPHY

When I'm old, I would like to look back on life and be glad about everything I tried, the good and bad experiences I made, the relationships that were of importance. I think it's a good idea to do and fail, rather than not do.

Interests

I like words. Languages. Long conversations. Strange food. Books. Ideas. Photographs. Spontaneity. Magic. Trespassing. Crunchy things. Typewriters. Industrial wastelands. Metaphors. Psychoanalysis. Deepsea creatures. Fake Russian accents. Honey and salt. Cemetaries. Trains. Fresh laundry. Blue hour. Skin and the bones underneath. Grocery shops in new countries. Getting lost. Dictionaries. Fleamarkets. Swing dancing. Large paintings. Poetry.

• books
• poetry
• singing
• dancing
• swing dancing
• dining
• pub crawls
• crochet
• magic
• piano
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books by... Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Anne Michaels, George Orwell, Ferdinand von Schirach, Anne Enright. Reif Larsen's 'The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet'. Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Tree of Codes'. Luigi Serafini's 'Codex Seraphinianus'.

Movies... most recently: Jim Jarmusch's 'Only Lovers Left Alive'. John Wells's 'August: Osage County'.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw the stars in the Mojave desert. Rode a scooter on a Greek island. Played gigs in tiny Norwegian pubs. Survived living with an evil cat. Cheated on boardgames and trains. Woke up in a cloud on a mountain. Was moved by old Portuguese men singing Fado. Rode a horse through the mountains of Armenia. Ate insects.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you some piano and how to crochet an egg cozy, wicked German grammar and how to fry potatoes right, drilling holes in walls and how to make basil survive on your windowsill.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Ireland, Norway, United States

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