Hi!
My name is Karolina but my friends call me Karo, Karol or Pony. I'm a passionate sketcher and a graphic designer. My dream is to illustrate children books... or at least one during my lifetime. I love to draw and I can lost myself in it.
I'm positive, open minded person who can be satisfied with the smallest things in the world. I love to laugh and my best memories are associated with my Bff and me laughing out loud. I'm good at friending people and I have a list of 'the best people in the world' which I'm constantly adjusting. I think the life is actually throwing good people at me so I can put them on 'the list'. My life is consisted of various, strange/weird/amazing life situations which one day I'm planning to turn into best selling book. I am a gatherer of experiences and I believe every single one of them add a new value to who I am.

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

I love to travel and see the most of the world I can but I don't want to do it alone and I believe I can meet new wonderful, open minded people here with free spirits and good hearts. Also, what is the better way to get to know new places than with locals?
I love taking pictures wherever I go, check my IG here:
https://www.instagram.com/karolpony/
or my graphics at
https://www.instagram.com/_nanthelin_/

Intereses

• animals
• cats
• books
• photography
• sketching
• illustrations
• diy
• cooking
• yoga
• anime
• drawing
• hiking
• travel
• art
• nature
• rollerblading
• healthy food
• ceramics
• handmade
• sunsets
• ice cream
• peanut butter
• photoshop
• cheesecake
• cooking and baking
• elephants
• food lover
• colours
• pingpong
• good stories
• good views
• illustrator
• extraordinary people
• chcolate
• colorful socks
• strange questions

Música, películas y libros

I looove music. I can't live without it. Most of my day is filled with it. And the spectrum is also quite wide. Jazz, blues, rock, classical... even rag time! It's not the genre that I like... it's the song that make me fall in love with it. So usually I don't say I like this but don't like that. Play me your music and I'll tell you if I like it.
I am making mixes of music I like and here you can listen to them:
https://www.mixcloud.com/coccoandbell/

The same rules applies to books and movies. I will read and watch everything as long as it is interesting for me. Now I'am also on a mission to read everything Kurt Vonnegut or John Steinbeck wrote, but I'll also read good reportage or something funny and light, scary and not serious...
Movies... I love a lot of them... and a good tv series as well. I enjoy good Anime or old black and white movie.
So as you can see I'm very open minded when it comes to... pretty much everything.

Algo increíble que he hecho

uhh... i wish I could do something extraordinary. I guess I'm not bad at saving animals. On one December cold night I rescued a run over cat from the middle of the road. I though it was dead but when I get out of my car to move it (so the next fast coming car won't get a chance to make it totally flat!) I realized it's still breathing. So I took him and rushed to a Vet... and in my Utopian vision of the world all Vets are rescuing animals for free. Well, in the real life that don't happen much often. The whole weekend I spent driving from one Vet to another and waiting for the poor animal as he had a broken jaw and needed surgery. But it was worth it as few days later I have found his owners and they were more than grateful for saving their favorite pet! So I gained good friends in the end!

I also saved a Gecko and a pair of small birdies :D

I've learnt how to swim at the age of 32! which is an achievement for me as I thought I would die without that skill! Now I swim in the sea almost every day (in season which is May- end of October)

I climbed Saulakopf peak in Austrian Alps which is 2516m (8 258 ft) with inflamed sinuses, leaking nose and major headache... I did it simply because my friends were going and I didn't want to miss out on anything because of stupid sickness.

After getting a flat tire on a highway I changed it myself without panicking, calling for help or even making my self dirty. And I was wearing white shirt and the car wasn't mine so I didn't know much about it. That was my second time changing flat tire, first alone. I was very proud of being as stoic as I was!

Enseña, aprende, comparte

I can teach you:
drawing/painting/graphic desgn
cooking/baking/about healthy food
roller skating
free yourself in dance
Polish
how to enjoy nature
how to stroke a cat so he appreciate it

I would love to learn:
How to play the piano
meditate
Japanese
wood carving
throwing on the ceramic wheel

Qué puedo ofrecer a los anfitriones

I can cook you a nice meal, share my stories and draw you whatever you want!

Países que he visitado

Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Morocco, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, United States

Países en los que he vivido

Poland, Spain