proletarian south-american kid who somehow made it to european governments. hasn't been home since 1999. essentially a human stray cat.

future missions:
- finishing the european countries (missing belarus, finland, ireland and moldova)
- visiting uzbekistan & tajikistan
- taking the transsiberian
- possibly israel/palestine/jordan/egypt
- hopefully southern armenia and iran

Interests

• graphic design
• photography
• documentaries
• concerts
• cooking
• cycling
• hiking
• rock climbing
• swimming
• calligraphy
• international relations
• hitchhiking
• volunteering
• filmmaking
• linguistics
• europe
• maps
• urban exploring
• video editing
• russian culture
• balkan music
• public transport
• valencia
• slavic culture
• georgian food
• sweet red wine

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

putting incredible moments into words makes them seem less amazing than they were, but here we go:

- almost died in a car on the way to gergeti church
- hitchhiked a highway patrol car to catch my plane in georgia in the middle of the night, after accidentally having ended up on the turkish border
- slept from croatian beach to beach for a week with my friends, without tent, sleeping bag or anything
- somersaulted down "that hill" in vilnius
- fished my mobile phone out of a toilet on a georgian roadside, while having like 10 turkish concerned elders watch me (this story gets wilder, trust me)
- had to miss my flight from skopje, because my friend was denied entry into makedonia, then hitchhiked back to prishtina.
- at age 17 spontaneously decided to go to albania on my own (that's where it all started)
- spent new year's eve on the "beach" in warsaw (sounds hotter than it was)
- "walked" from vienna to bratislava
- stole a golden bilingual open/closed-sign at 3000 meters altitude in stepantsminda (georgia)
- wrote a song in a taxi with a random georgian while driving through the high caucasus mountains to travel back to our last location to search for my mobile phone in the snow
- sang karaoke in ~15 different languages so far.
- got to party in "that stalin building" in warsaw in fancy dress
- hiked up calpe mountain in a thunderstorm in heels
- crashed an albanian wedding
- spent a week in paradise (lykia region of turkey) on boats and still feel the adrenaline from jumping off one
- hitchhiked from astana/nur-sultan (kazakhstan) to bishkek (kyrgyzstan) in kamaz trucks

Teach, Learn, Share

i seriously gotta level up on:
- cooking traditional dishes (love vietnamese, georgian and persian cuisine)
- playing the guitar
- hitchhiking
- surviving in the wild
- indesign/illustrator

also i'd love to have more conversations in advanced spanish, medium french and basic russian and serbocroatian.

What I Can Share with Hosts

alright cooking, jugonostalgic vibes, mediocre photoshoots, useless linguistics trivia, decent playlists (if you're a fan of depressing soviet music) + an occasional tipsy try at playing the guitar

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Austria, Germany, Spain, Turkey