HELP UKRAINE

Fully vaccinated

I am mostly driven by curiosity and hopefully conscientiousness.

Unfortunately I don't travel as much as I used to because I currently work full time as a kindergarten teacher, but I think I retain the same level of curiosity and sincerity.

I love art and I strive to have as much art as possible in my life and I like people who are smarter than me (rhere are many types of intelligence so I mostly mean people who can teach me something I don't know.

I gradually realized that I'm not as much interested in travelling to countries which languages I don't speak so I use any opportunity to widen this circle.

Also I'm secretly Snufkin from the Moomins series.

I'm fine with copying request messages to me because I respect your time (so no hidden passwords in this page), just act like I'm special.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Since most of the people in the world can't afford to travel as a result of various political and socio-economic reasons that are not always dependent on them, so I think it's important to be mindful of this and use my privilege to make an attempt to understand a place I'm visiting, to understand the weight of historical, socio-political etc cirmcumstances.

Interests

I'm interested in so many things at the same time that often I'm biting more than I can chew and make untenable grandiose plans (learning a bunch of languages, drawing, making music, reading a bunch of books at the same time, finding interest in different sciences etc

• photography
• education
• human rights
• geography
• history
• philosophy
• political science
• sociology
• cinema
• linguistics
• feminism
• middle east
• lgbt issues

Music, Movies, and Books

So I wanted to make a short list of my favourite movie directors across time and space, but it suddenly got too big. But still here it is:

Šarūnas Bartas, Lav Diaz, Bela Tarr, Jia Zhangke, Tsai Ming-liang, Edward Yang, Elia Suleiman, Jonas Mekas, Derek Jarmen, Chris Marker, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abbas Kiarostami, Manoel Di Oliveira, Chantal Akerman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Shuji Terayama, Kenji Mizoguchi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sergei Parajanov, Theodoros Angelopulos, Miklós Jancsó, Jiří Menzel, Susumu Hani, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Maya Deren, Alain Resnais, Jasujiro Ozu, Kira Muratova, Robert Bresson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pedro Costa, Miguel Gomes, Tengiz Abuladze, Carlos Reygadas, Agnès Varda, Dušan Hanák, Otar Iosseliani, Naomi Kawase, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Nagisa Osima, Artavazd Peleshyan, Jacques Rivette

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Got arrested on a british military base in Cyprus

Teach, Learn, Share

Even though I'm not a big authority in any field of knowledge, I'm always happy if I'm able to deliver any little knowledge I have.
I used to study linguistics and I kind of still make my whole personality about it. Sometimes I can explain some hidden peculiarities of the way your language's grammar works but can't even say "Hello" in it.
I beg you pardon in advance If it'll look I'm approaching you like a zoologist approaching some rare species if you are speaker of a language I'm interested in.

I like to ramble about cinema, as it's objectively true that I've watched more movies than most people of my age.

I don't have a strong sense of national or whatever else identity, it's quite fluid (almost like my gender identity) so my natural habitat is multicultural and multilingual.

Also I hope it's fairly obvious I don't accept any form of bigotry.

Please teach me your languages so I can add it to my Frankenstein monster of an identity.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Palestine, Poland, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State