Hi!
I'm Jędrzej (YEN-jay / Andy), a Polish guy by birth and heart from Southern Poland but forced to live in Warsaw. I have degree in international relations and I am still studying law at Univeristy of Warsaw. I'm into history, politics, and hiking – I'm also pretty talkative and love having all kinds of chats, especially about local cultures and digging into the stories behind different countries. When I was 5 i moved out with my family from my homecity in Silesia/Oberschlesien- Bytom/Beuthen to Warsaw.
If you are going to Warsaw or looking for hiking/mountaineering advices about Poland drop me a message!

This is my 16 personalities test's result:
Personality type: Logician (INTP-T)
Traits: Introverted – 72%, Intuitive – 60%, Thinking – 63%, Prospecting – 61%, Turbulent – 71%
Role: Analyst
Strategy: Constant Improvement

As you can see I prefer chill conversation and a beer than partying (but sometimes i like to dance a little bit;)
People are tend to say that I lied in my 16 personalities test and in real life I am completely different person but you will figure it out by yourself hahah :).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love nice conversations and firsthand information which hosts or surfers can provide. As well i I made some many friedships through cs and found few travel partners and long-lasting friends :))

Interests

• politics
• skiing
• swimming
• history
• international relations
• languages
• mountains
• cultures
• trekking
• outdoors
• museums
• via ferrata
• rafting
• iran
• skitouring
• guatemala
• slavic culture
• soviet architecture
• post-soviet countries
• demographics
• latin america politcs

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Some of my favorite books include "Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Trial" by Franz Kafka, "Another World" by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, "Kartoteka" by Tadeusz Różewicz, "The Real War" by Richard M. Nixon, "Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala" by Stephen Kinzer, "Crime and Punishment", “The Karamazov Brothers” by Fyodor Dostoevsky (I simply admire and relate to Dostoevsky)
Music: electro, techno, and indie rock. I like the Blaze, Brutalismus 3000, Rufus du Sol, and Foals.
Movies: The Seventh Seal," directed by Ingmar Bergman, “The peasants (Chłopi)”

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1. I’ve got almost struck by a lighting hiking Chiquibal Volcano in Quetzaltenango department, in Guatemala during a storm
2. almost leant on a scorpion when i was hiking Telica Volcano in Nicaragua during a storm in the night (check the trees out first and then lean on it’s a good advise haha).
3. Survived Tehran’s traffic on a motorcycle
4. spent 10 days wild camping in Faroe Islands and being constantly soaked, blown away by wind etc
5. Trying to prove that I am German citizen based on 19th century family and Nazi documents like Deutsche Volksliste (still on the way but loving the process hahaha)

Teach, Learn, Share

I really enjoy having deep conversations where we exchange ideas and learn from each other. I can give you an insight into fucked up history and politics of Poland and whole eastern block (we will try to figure out who hates each other in Slavic world - spoiler alert - almost everybody haha), i am as well a huge fan of politics of Latin American countries especially Central American ones (my final thesis was “Genocide as a tool of state policy - example of the American genocide of the Maya in Guatemala”)- so we can talk about the United Fruit Company for instance :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Languages: I'm fluent in English (C2 level) and German (B2+/C1 level). If you more adventurous i can teach you some useful words in Polish so you will be able to swear for 2 minutes straight.
I'm no master chef, but I do enjoy cooking up some Polish and Silesian dishes.I promise to try my best so my grandma won't spin in her grave 🥴🥴

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland