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Overview

  • 13 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Finnish, French, Swedish; learning German, Northern Sami, Russian, Spanish
  • 41, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Elementary school teacher
  • Master of Arts
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Learn the basics of Freinet pedagogy. Translate some books.

ABOUT ME

I love:

philosophy, at the moment especially philosophy of education
swimming
vegan food/vegatarian food
social justice
the sea
the writing of Louise Michel
Paris
tram in my home town and elsewhere too
clouds

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love meeting new people. <3

Interests

Dancing, bubbly conversations about insignificant subjects, postmodernism/modernism, Literature, poetry, kitsch, naivism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, phenomenology, things that reflect light, swimming, dolphins, human rights, animal rights, trees, history, la vie quotidienne, surrealism, dadaism

  • animals
  • literature
  • poetry
  • dancing
  • human rights
  • swimming
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

About movies: Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkosvkij, Luis Bunuel, Fernando Arrabal, Werner Herzog, Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Robert Bresson, Francois Truffaut, Roy Andersson, Nagisa Oshima, Jean-Luc Godard

Books: Robert Musil: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, Marcel Proust, Kafka, Gunnar Ekelöf, Samuel Beckett, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare, Monika Fagerholm, Gogol, Claude Simon, Thomas Mann, Durs Grünbein, Henri Michaux, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Nathalie Sarraute, Homer, Dostojevskij, Anton Tcekhov, Sapfo, Martin Heidegger, Roland Barthes, Plato, Aristotle

Music: Sigur Ros, Björk, The Ark, Air, Moondog, Moto Boy, The Kings of convenience, Lykke Li, Brigitte Bardot, Patti Smith, Portishead, The Velvet Underground, Goldfrapp, Hercules and love affair, Sebastien Tellier, Joanna Newsom, The Knife, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Arvo Pärt, Philipp Glass, Chopin

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I biked from Paris to Stockholm

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, France, Norway, Sweden

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