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ABOUT ME

- I'm some kind of a "third culture kid" currently in ...???! Updates are coming soon. Maybe.

- Ambivert.

- Kind of a CS veteran of sorts.

- Jenkatjenkat is one silly move from a folk dance and I don't know how to change usernames in CS… my name is Annika.

In the meantime, an inspirational quote: "Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever." - Michael Scott

You can also read my old description below if you please.
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Want to know more about Estonia?

I'm one of those strange creatures that resides in a magical land between dangerous waters known to only the wildest of explorers (British bachelors and Finnish vodka tourists). I speak a language that is known only to a selected few that are born into it (and for those poor souls with a wild fantasy who try to learn it, you will be repeatedly and annoyingly reminded that it is just TOO HARD). My tribe consists of around 1,3 million people. We do many funny things with our free time, like walking on stilts, wearing funny colorful clothes, singing (with about 100,000 people at once, because who wants to stand out, right?) and bickering with our neigbouring country (by throwing little pebbles at each other at the border). In the summertime we have a lot of festivals - we set stuff on fire and then let intoxicated people jump over the flames. During the wintertime we mostly hibernate. You can also encounter our species in unexpected and random places, such as chicken farms in New Zealand, nudist camps in Spain or on the streets of some little village in Arkansas (or who-knows-where-else) trying to sell you some knowledge (textbooks mostly).

I am a foodie. So if you visit Estonia you can try some Estonian delicacies with me, like meat-jelly, blood sausage, fermented sour milk or liquid bread. Mmmmmmm! But don't worry, we can eat 'normal' food too. Like boiled potato.

In Tartu I don't have a couch for you to surf on, but I can guide you through this wild safari, that is my on-and-off hometown called tARTu, if I have time left over (between taking naps :)). I'll introduce you to some of the beasts around town that go by the name of "homo studentimus drunkimus" who usually shed their colorful feathers for the cold months, looking like your ordinary gray street pigeon for 10 months out of 12, but who get all lively and colorful again, once reminded of the yellow bright ball in the sky (a rare but breathtaking experience).

So if you're nice, you can write to me, maybe I'll show you around. Even if you're a British bachelor or a Finnish vodka tourist. I don't judge.

PHILOSOPHY

Everything happens for a reason... except for clowns, I mean seriously, what the hell?

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

To tell the world what Estonia is.

Centres d'intérêt

To make things interesting. And people that make things interesting are pretty interesting too.

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Yes.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

I saw a woman lift a chair up with her teeth once and then spin it around.

(on the internet)

Can you guess in which of these places I have lived in?:

- a fancy flat in central Rome, 10min walk away from the Colosseum with a chandelier on the ceiling
- an old Soviet “hrušovka” surrounded by empty houses, which were being blown up and demolished because nobody lived there anymore
- a traveling theme park caravan in Finland
- an old farm house deep in the woods with chicken, geese & other farm animals
- another farm house deep in the woods, but new & modern and no farm animals
- in the living room of a house which which was a place for the people to get their 🌿😉. There was no door, so a curtain was attached to the ceiling and drawn across the room.
- a Soviet dormitory, where the showers were in the basement, toilets at the end of the hall (you had to take your own toilet seat) and walls had holes in them that would show through to the hallway… it hadn’t been renovated since the 60s
- a penthouse apartment with a city view to the capital of the United States
- a spooky house
- a flat with (again) no door and no heating (wooden heating through a broken stove, which blew smoke inside) with temperatures that were maybe 10 degrees indoors
- a house with 12 people and one toilet/bathroom, a lot of roosters in the back yards & a housemate who would loudly swear K***A at them every morning because they were loud (bonus points if you can tell where he’s from)
- a party house with the DJ playing sets in the living room
- another party house with a magic floor & tiniest bathroom known to man
- the “closet” of a couple
- city center apartment with a sauna and a view to the skyscrapers
- a tent
- a friend’s mom’s basement
- a college campus dormitory in North Carolina
- a fancy four-storey house with a spa, where if you spoke or sneezed, it would echo due to the high ceilings
- an apartment above a night club, which made getting there in the evening like a game of space invaders (invading drunken club-goers)
- an apartment with a 🐀 infestation in the kitchen due to broken pipes 🥲 (don’t worry, this was a long time ago, I won’t be bringing the plague)
- an apartment with a view to a volcano on one side and the ocean on the other
- an apartment with ocean view and pool

I’ve probably moved homes more than 35x in my life.

And I’ve lived in all of the above.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

Eat rice. Rice is good if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

Pays que j'ai visités

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

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