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Overview

  • 27 references 15 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Polish, Portuguese; learning German, Romanian, Spanish
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • PhD student, research assistant
  • MA Psychology, BA Portuguese Studies
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION(S)

Learn more about yoga.
Travel to South America.

ABOUT ME

I would say I suffer from 'sensation seeking' ;)

PHILOSOPHY

'Life is what is going on while you're busy planning other things'

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I hosted wonderful people in Poland and in London. I surfed and traveled with people from CS a lot.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Many inspiring people, great adventures, wonderful memories! :)

Interests

Psychology (psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology), languages, people & other cultures, traveling (h-hiking!), journalism, music, movies, dance (especially irish dance and bellydance).

  • dancing
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • hiking
  • journalism
  • languages
  • psychology
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Pulp Fiction & other Tarantino's, Day of the Freak, Woody Allen's, Into the wild, La vita è bella, Schindler's List,...

Books: Tolkien, Kava, Pratchett, Bulchakov, Hrabal, Kapuscinski,

Music: rock, psychedelic, folk, blues, ethno music, metal (and all possible combinations of them), sung poetry
Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Beatles, Jack White, Pearl Jam, Mad Season, Damien Rice, Wes Montgomery, Korpiklaani and many others

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

H-hiking from Poland to Turkey few years ago.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share my cooking experience.
I can teach you some Polish/Portuguese.
I am always happy to give some advice to hitch-hiking beginners :)

As it comes to learning, I would be happy to improve my Portuguese! Coming back to playing the guitar would be nice as well.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom

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