ABOUT ME

I am mostly a product of my small, conservative and conflicting third-world society. In the meantime, I am doing a PhD in London.

My favourite activity by far is traveling: seeing and learning about new places and languages. Although I'd rather stay home reading a good book with some music on the background and a good cup of hot chocolate, or having a good chat, I also like going out for a drink with good company. If it's about getting out to know a new place, I'm ready to wear out my shoes. I also have a strong inclination for mythologies or anything that resembles them.

I don't really enjoy any hippie-like experience of tourism. I like traveling alone, meeting interesting people in the way, but I don't really take part in the citizen-of-the-world-idea based communities. (Update: I wrote this several years ago, but after living in London for a while, I have some new thoughts on this.. ask me :)

Что привело меня на Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted many people in Guatemala, but I have never done any travelling. Looking forward to it!

Интересы

Every now and then I write a new short story.

• books
• chocolate
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• history
• languages
• science
• tourism

Музыка, кино и книги

Latin American Literature (Borges, Garci­a Marquez, Maurice Echeverria, Vallejo, etc.) and others, especially Kundera, Kafka, Tolstoi, Chejov, Nabokov (etc. with the Russians), Mishima, Murakami.

I love mythology, from the Bible and Snorri Sturluson's Eddas to Levi-Strauss.

Music: I am a huge musical fan, mostly 'professional' (or 'classical'), (Mozart, Chopin, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev). I want some film soundtracks too, like Amores Perros and A Clockwork Orange.

Finally, a big movie fan too. My favourites might be Eyes Wide Shut, Antichrist, The Man from Earth, Scott Pilgrim and along those lines. I am always looking for new things to see!!

Классная вещь, которую я сделал(-а)

Tikal by night, under the full moon.

Учу, учусь, делюсь опытом и информацией

For anyone coming to Guatemala, I can share my knowledge on my country's history and contemporary situation, which I have gotten to know as part of my job as a social scientist. I take part in various political projects, so I would be glad to share and discuss political issues, mainly regarding Guatemala, Central America, Latin America or America as a whole.

Где я побывал(-а)

Austria, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, El Salvador, France, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Где я жил(-а)

Guatemala