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"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'd like to get to know not only places, but first of all people.

Interests

• books
• literature
• reading
• traveling
• hiking
• backpacking
• paragliding
• hitchhiking

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 ;-)).

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Poland, Russian Federation, Turkey

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