CURRENT MISSION

survive in Croatia! learn Chinese!

ABOUT ME

Still trying to find a song that describes me the best.

PHILOSOPHY

Everything was forever, until it was no more.
An ounce of action is worth a pound of theory.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Back in BJ. Always up for a coffee/beer and a cup of conversation.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Met some people, gave advice. Surfed Beauvais, Shanghai, Chengdu, Hong Kong and Moscow. Great experience!

Interests

Books books books. Good music. Even better concerts. Comics. Russia. China. Traveling. Learning languages. Food. SF. Crime fiction. Recently Central Asia and economics. China and Russia always in my <3

• books
• concerts
• dining
• beer
• walking
• comics
• traveling
• music
• opera
• camping
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Machette; Deathproof; Three colours: White, Red and Blue; Ghost World...

Music: a tough one... punk, a bit of HC, Fugazi, Metz, Protomartry, The Clash; PJ Harvey; Peaches; Joy Division; QOTSA; Mark Lanegan; Black Flag; Belle and Sebastian; The Pixies; Pulp; Portishead; EKV and many many many more...

Books: everything by Paul Auster; The Blindfold by Siri Husvedt; Franz Kafka; J.D. Salinger and many more...

TV series: The Wire; Arrested Development; My So-Called Life :) Mad Men;

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I survived a Russian boot camp. Well, it wasn't exactly a boot camp, but it sure did look like one.

Lived in China for a year and traveled all over. Studying Chinese (and loving it!), that's pretty amazing.

Walking in a temple in Foshan, China stumbled upon people watching Cantonese opera in the middle of the day.
Went travelling alone in China...
Guilin, Zhangjiajie and other beautiful nature in China...
Spent a month in the north of Russia. Went from Beijing to Vladivostok alone and then spent two months in Russia alone.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you English, Russian or basic Mandarin Chinese.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Mongolia, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Russian Federation, United Kingdom