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Overview

  • 8 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Serbian; learning Italian, Spanish
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2016
  • technical support for an IT company
  • bachelor's degree in French language and literature
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About Me

I'm one of life's enthusiasts, very artistic,open minded, funny, curious and passionate about dancing, travelling and learning foreign languages.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm really looking forward to meeting and exchanging experiences with many interesting people from all over the world. I'm here because I believe in the kindness of strangers. I believe that kindness is magic !

Interests

  • arts
  • writing
  • books
  • poetry
  • photography
  • dancing
  • tango
  • wine
  • cocktails
  • magic
  • music
  • swimming
  • philosophy
  • psychology
  • adventure travel
  • creativity
  • alchemy
  • dreaming
  • love
  • happiness
  • humour

Music, Movies, and Books

When it comes to music, I listen to different genres (rap, hip-hop, jazz, rnb, rock, Indie rock, latino, tango music, classical music).
huge fan of Sade, Florence and the Machine, Mina, Nina Simone, Noir Désir, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Max Gazzè, Vinicio Capossela, Leonard Cohen and many more!

''I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

I am really passionate about reading! the real list is quite long, but here are some i really love:
Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Music of a Life by Andreï Makine
Como agua para chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Portrait of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Portrait of Madame Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford
The magic skin by Balzac
Faust by Goethe
The Process by Kafka
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Lust for life by Irving Stone
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife
“The Schopenhauer Method” and “And Nietzsche Cried” by Irvin Yalom
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
Moon palace by Paul Auster
The Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Dostoievsky's Karamazov brothers
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
"Candide" and "Zadig" by Voltaire
The Epic of Gilgamesh - a legendary tale from ancient Mesopotamia
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Some of my favorite poets are Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Charles Bukowski, Maria Rayner Rilke, Maya Angelou, Mayakovsy, Mika Antic

Love movies too! some of my favorite movies: Inception, Pulp fiction, The Godfather, Frederico Fellini's masterwork 8 ½ and Amarcord, Memento, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pain and Glory

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

the exhibition ‘’ in the orbits’’ of Tomás Saraceno, the Brainy Spider-Man of the Art World, was definitely an amazing and pretty much exciting experience!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROqL-8h_7DM

Teach, Learn, Share

Hakuna matata
Kaizen

What I Can Share with Hosts

I would be happy to share my enthusiasm and lust for life with all people I meet.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Serbia

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