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Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
@karolinasob
Member since 2009
I enjoy the moment, but I'm day-dreamy at once. I'm in love with my husband :-) , my home and home town, my job (teaching), but I'm always hungry new travels, experiences and adventures! PHILOSOPHY "everything is a matter of priorities"
Interested in Adventure Sports
Fluent in English
Learning Russian
1 Vouch
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
I'd like to get to know not only places, but first of all people.
Music, Movies, and Books
Books: about sense of life and peaceful staying, about wandering... Russian classics (Goncharov, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Bulgakov), Polish masters: W. Gombrowicz ("Cosmos"), R. Kapuscinski (eg. "The Polish Bush"), another: Exupery ("Wind, Sand and Stars"), Hamsun ("Growth of the Soil")... Movies: Kieslowski! - "Blue" and "Red" especially; Peter Weir - "Dead Poets Society"; Sean Penn - "Into the Wild"; good romantic dramas: Clint Eastwood "The Bridges of Madison County", Jean-Pierre Jeunet "Amelia", Garry Marshall "Pretty Woman" :-) ... Music: choral and calming music, jazz, poetic songs, film score, folk & world music
One Amazing Thing I've Done
- pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela - cruise across Lofoten Islands - Christmas at Deir Mar Musa & Easter in Jerusalem :-) - paragliding from Babadag (Turkey) - hitch-hiking across amazing Eastern Turkey, Balkans and other - studying literature in Moscow - going by trans-siberian train to Baikal Lake - working at Irish Junior School, - cruise across Mediterranean Sea, - hiking Annapurna Base Camp, - ...
What I Can Share With Hosts
Stories :-) - about life, travels, our countries, culture, history. I can teach you to cook some Polish food (if you have breadboard and rolling pin ;-)).
