CURRENT MISSION

travelling!

ABOUT ME

I am a curator's and bio-art museum director's assistant, based in Antwerp, Begium. I dance modern (for the time being more like trying to get back into my former shape) and really adore books (I used to write books reviews for polish cultural website), as well as movies. I'm an art lover (contemporary art mainly), so I'm always enjoying visiting galleries and museums, as well as reading about what's going on in an art world. I'm also trying to create myself - I've been developing my analog photography and video making/editing skills for 2 years now (I'm a self-taught), and that's providing me a perfect way to express myself and to find fulfillment. You can see some of my photographs here - http://karolinaes.tumblr.com.

PHILOSOPHY

you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough (mae west)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

At the moment I can't really host, because my place is not big enough and I'm spending a lot of time at work.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've just started my cs experience, but it is really great so far. I've been couchsurfing in Kopenhagen, Paris, Iceland and Berlin - each time it was a great experience, and I met amazing people; with some of them I'm still in touch.

Interests

dance - my biggest passion (I dance modern), film, art, travelling, literature, snowboarding, cooking, nature, photography, writing, video art.

• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• contemporary art
• photography
• concerts
• dancing
• cooking
• recipes
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• magic
• snowboarding

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: american classics as well as independent cinema, alternative productions

alfred hitchcock, bernardo bertolucci, coen brothers, mike leigh, dardenne brothers, lars von trier, wes anderson, hayao miyazaki, michelangelo antonioni, thomas vinterberg, richard linklater, david lynch...

music: classical music, icelandic music (sigur ros, mum, bjork, for a minor reflection, low roar), gold panda, the xx, massive attack, cocorosie, washed out, tricky, charlotte gainsbourg, deceptikon, phantogram, the national and many others.

books: "just kids" patti smith, "crime and punishment" fyodor dostoyevski, "papillon" henri charriere, "the road" cormac mccarthy, "chess-player" waldemar łysiak, "old masters" thomas bernhardt, "the bell jar" sylvia plath, "as I lay dying" william faulkner, "steppenwolf" hermann hesse, etgar keret's, aldous huxley's and margaret atwood's books, poetry...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Two-weeks-long car trip around Iceland - indescribable experience. The most beautiful place I've ever seen and probably will see (as I've heard from others, there is no place like this island). I could feel magic in the air, in the ground, in the water - no wonder people there believe in elves and dragons. Now I can share their belief.

During study tour to United States, I participated in a voodoo ceremony in NOLA, Louisiana. It was quite scary, but once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Sigur Ros concert in Krakow - pure magic...

What I Can Share with Hosts

stories from my journeys, knowledge about contemporary art, movies and literature, cooking recipes (:) )....

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Poland, United Kingdom