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Overview

  • 2 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Estonian; learning Finnish, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
  • 46, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Universal traveler
  • Comparative folklore BA, Anthropology MA.
  • From Tartu
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To follow the sun

ABOUT ME

"One, No one and One Hundred Thousand."

For recent years, my life has been all about traveling, learning and sharing. I earn money by traveling and spend most of it on traveling, too. At the same time I try to be a full time grad student (anthropology of religion) and a full time hedonistic idler. I'm systematic, thorough and culture-oriented when traveling for work; adventurous, spontaneous, easy going and laid back when traveling for fun. Open-minded, open-hearted and eager to learn, participate, help and laugh at any time. I never go to any place without deep interest in local culture and traditions. I'm looking for new knowledge, excitement and inspiration and so far I have always found it. I hope that no place will ever be the way I have expected it to be ;)

Interests

Participant observation, changing places, lifelong learning. Depths and heights, crossing the borders, new horizons. Laughter and all those moments of pure happiness. Theoretical discussions, formal logic, deconstruction. Critical junctures ;) Deep human relationships. Mind games. Meditation, culinary and tea culture, nature. Street side anthropology and people watching. Architecture, design, literature, theater, music, cinema. Religions, folklore, story telling. Pop culture and urban environments. Beauty in its various forms.

  • culture
  • literature
  • theater
  • folklore
  • architecture
  • design
  • beauty
  • meditation
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • anthropology
  • logic
  • religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Art house. Documentaries. Asian aesthetics. European narratives. Balkan madness. American indie. Estonian anima. Lynch, Caro & Jeunet, Ozon, Mikhalkov, Greenaway, Kieslowsky, Kubrick, Almadovar, Iosseliani, Jarmusch, Kim Ki-Duk, Wong Kar-Wai, Kitano, A. Kaurismäki, Khudojnazarov, Keedus, Wenders...

Music: Groovy, groovy, jazzy, funky for getting myself going; (contemporary) classical for stimulation; Latin, MPB and house for dancing; easy listening and minimalist electronica for daydreaming; Icelandic sound wizards for melancholy; cheesy earworms for singing; indie for shouting along; folk for reminding me where I come from.

Books: fiction, poetry, plays, sacred texts, theories, diaries, history, anthropology and religion, dictionaries, encyclopedias, myths and folk narratives, travel guides, MacBook.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Portugal

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