Hello, I'm Julia and I'm nature loving, travel enthusiastic and open-minded person.
I like to behold sunrise and sunset, wind blowing, stars shining.
I love to cook - I do it at work and as a hobby. I'm vegetarian and food is quite philosophy for me: during the next few years I want to learn how to take control on the whole process of making food - from seeds to a dish on my plate. No more anonymous carrots in the supermarket:) In my food choices I try to be as good for natural environment as I can be, and better.
I want to learn how to grow plants and how to survive in the woods without food supplies, tents and phones.

I love to see new places, new people and cultures, but I also love simple walks in the forest. I'm quite introvertic and not so easy to talk with strangers, but they say I'm a good listener. That's probably true, because I rather like to listen and observe. Every man is a story, at some points different, at some the same. Every story is an opportunity to learn something about the world and myself and see things on a distance. Still my greatest teacher is Nature (i love neverending pseudophilosophical discussions on this theme, how to define nature etc as well), believe that not every contact and process of knowing people needs words to be complete.

Current mission:
I live now in Galicia, Spain, volunteering on ecofarm, and plan to travel more through Workaway, learning permaculture and wathever suprises my road brings.

Edit: nomad addicted to the road, hitchhiking and improvisation. Many temporary homes. Currently in my hometown Warsaw till January/Feb, unfortunetely can't offer bed, but I"m always happy to meet folks here (if i"m not suddendly in e.g. Budapeszt:))

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

- hostels are sad, made of cheap plastic and creepier than hospitals.
- i'm usually broke or could be soon.
- i'm always excited by new places to sleep so these are my most colorful weird dreams.
- some people want to just go for a beer, some - hug, others- wonder around strange places that i wouldn't probably know about. And they may have tips for hitchhiking! Sometimes even a piece of cartboard! It's all fine to never know.
- i'm usually very polite and nice girl so I could write here all what half of decent CS members write about travelling via people... All true but to be honest, i'm sometimes totally antisocial. IT may happen that its in wintertime, I dont have my tent and I"m just in a need of place to rest or we don't reallly get along so well - this is something to accept. I love you all anyway. CS community basic idea is just beautiful.

Interests

Permaculture, Modern&vegan cuisine, film history, anthropology, music theory, ecology, the secret life of trees and funghi and bees and gelatine-like worms that you wouldn't even notice on your forest walk but you can start to read Jeremy Narby.

• culture
• cooking
• vegan
• meditation
• traveling
• anthropology
• ecology
• hitchhiking
• nudist
• permaculture
• hugging
• mushrooms
• psychedelics
• psychedelic music
• psytrance
• hugging trees
• poi spinning

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Oh boy. This question. Well I'm currently more into psychill/psybient, projects of modern classical music with electronica, but I have confusingly broad interests so last years masters are Solar Fields, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Aes Dana, Simon Posford, Fire! Orchestra, Nils Frahm, Jacaszek, Warszawa Wschodnia, Boards of Canada, Arvo Part, Cinematic Orchestra and lots of other artist you can find on my old forgotten profile but I still listen to some: http://www.last.fm/pl/user/Neoporteria

Movies:
I prefer to talk about directors: Herzog, Jarmush, Ceylan, Menzel, Miyazaki, Bergman, Zelenka, Kar-Wai Wong, Haneke, Wenders, Has and Kusturica are some of the greatest artists on my list

Books:
Stasiuk, Konwicki, Lem, Sontag, Vonnegut, Hrabal, Cortazar, Kerouac and many other prozaics. It's hard to choose one book, cause I read every day since I was six and I'm constantly looking for something new, but 'Cat's craddle', 'Too loud a solitude' and 'Big Sur' are definitely on the top. I'm not very fond to poetry, but I love Ezra Pound. I also read lots of reportages. Lately Alan Watts, Jeremy Narby and Chopra.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have won three culinary awards in one year:)
I lived around three months travelling with no money involved.
I hitchhiked from south portuguese seacoast to high Pyrenneyes in two days instead of three.

I bet there is something about number three in my life. Btw does anybody respect the word 'one' in the above question?

Teach, Learn, Share

Learning poi! I'm antitalented, but motivated:) keen on learning and teaching tricks, my goal is fire spinning

I can try to explain to you how to not give a fuck about things that are not worth it, and how to laugh on yourself, because I"m the worst about it but so I think about It every day....

Massage! Everywhere, everybody, always.

You are welcome to teach me a bit of portuguese. Or how to dance in random places to random music, cause I'm too posh to enjoy that, but I love dancing. Generally it can be fun or though to teach me something as I'm clumsy, shy, too ambitious and easily embarassed by my defeats, also I suspect there is sth strange about my memory.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Whatever comes, whatever you/we need or want and its possible.

Countries I’ve Visited

England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, Spain