CURRENT MISSION

Heheheh...an island's name tells everything: REUNION :-D

ABOUT ME

"I won't miss something great only because it's difficult, too." (Listen to your heart) And that's why I've joined CouchSurfing, too. Getting to know different cultures and human groups means realising completeness for me and sometimes difficult it may seem, I think anyone can grab the chances and have one's own tricks to do so. I've had enough of constrained retiring into my shell for ages with the average pleas like "no money", "no community to travel with" or anything like this. Culture isn't bound to a certain place, people take it everywhere they go and they find their mirrors everywhere, too, so I believe that not we are the travellers, the Earth is moving under us.

PHILOSOPHY

Pure being is the only certain point in earthly life: whatever happens, goes along with it.

Interests

I've chosen getting to know different cultures for profession; I've just finished BA level on Altaic Philology at university, with Ethnography specialisation. If any of yours wouldn't have known, Altaic language branch includes Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic branches, geographically these are spread in Minor Asia, Inner Asia and all along Siberia. So generally speaking I'm interested in oriental cultures. Along my studies I've been learning the following languages: English, Japanese, Turkish, Buryat (this is Northern Mongolic) and Russian. I've taken Hindi as a hobby, after graduation, but I have serious aims with it: I want to translate non-Indian movies into Hindi and use my translations for dubbing, due to my Bollywood contacts. I've always seen singing as a sort of purifying the mind and liberating the heart; I sing folk songs - my repertoire spreads from the Scottish Highland till the Indian subcontinent - , Hungarian, Latin and Neo-Latin liturgic songs, old-timer and classic pop songs. I have occasional jammates. Most of the time I sing as a busker and attend open mic sessions. As a volunteer in an elderly people's house in Budapest, between 2011 and 2017, I used to sing and tell stories. I also like drawing, handcrafting, cooking and dancing (folk dance and improvisative dance). But a point to remember: it's OK that I've chosen oriental cultures for profession but I'm not a fanatic, I can find treasures in every culture and when I receive a treasure with big enthusiasm, it belongs to my temper.

• culture
• singing
• dancing
• cooking
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• camping
• hinduism
• languages
• volunteering
• films
• handcraft

Music, Movies, and Books

In the field of music I'm quite broad-minded because majorly I prefer selecting music for my taste by intuition to selecting by genre. However, it's still available that folk music, early music and world music are the most appropriate for my emotional world. My favourite bands are Oi Dipnoi (folk-jazz, Sicily), Quartetto AreaSud ("slightly traditional" music...eeeeerrrr, nu-folk, Sicily), Toto (pop-rock, USA) and Irfan (ethereal wave, Bulgaria). I prefer old movies to present ones; among present ones I mainly watch philosophical films and romantic comedies. My utter favourite movie is Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Franco Zeffirelli, 1972), which I'm translating into Hindi. When I was a yoga aspirant, I got the chance to see Hindu mythological serials like Ramayana or Sri Krishna (d. b. Ramanand Sagar); I have my Bollywood contacts from these as I've been messaging with them on Facebook since 2016. Aaaaaand books...I'm neither fastidious in this field, but the funny thing is I sometimes read informative literature for entertainment; these are in ethnographical topics. In polite literature my favourite books are: Pagoda of Women (a novel by Pearl S. Buck), Betshabe (a novel by Torgny Lindgren), Chirr of Cricketts (a book of poems by Lorinc Szabo), Two little vices of a maid (a collection of Transylvanian folk tales) and The tale of the lotus flower (a collection of Indian folk tales).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Through an unexpected opportunity to perform at an Indian-Pakistani cultural festival, I've met my current boss, a software and web developer from Bangalore, whom I've saved from suicide later on.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Romania

Countries I’ve Lived In

Hungary