CURRENT MISSION
Berlin, Leipzig, Nürnberg and Rothenburg ob der Tauber, then Paris!

ABOUT ME
World citizen! :-) Six years in Japan and now back in Romania, working as a teacher, freelance interpreter and translator.
I love traveling, music, books and red wine; I enjoy people and good food. I love trains and airplanes, the sea and the mountains, the strangers smiling when you cross paths with them and I love the color green (forests and gardens are my thing).
I don't smoke and I don't eat meat. Main reasons: the environment and my well-being.

PHILOSOPHY
this chance you have, don't let it slip away. embrace the world, the people, share love and happiness, make it a better place. if we all struggle for it, someday IT WILL BE a better world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I have hosted as many people as I could in my apartment in Japan (the longest visit was 6 weeks :), met a few Couchsurfers in town or while traveling. It was a great opportunity to meet wonderful people, share and learn from their experiences, enjoy enlightening conversations and experiment with food :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
surfed:
Zdenek Lajbner (Okinawa)
Darja Gabrjel (Ljubljana)
Gaja Liu (Koper)
Maria (Berlin)
Anneke (Leipzig)

hosted:
US: Sarah Spiegel, Kali Taylor Ventresca, Wylie Goodman, Alanna Mitchell
Canada: Melvin Wong
Australia: Patrick Ottery, Will Neal
France: Nicolas Baldwin
Spain: Mónica Blanco, Ed Horna Castiñeiras
Romania: Anca Burducea, Georgiana Petria
Slovenia: Sarah Robb, Gaja Liu
Russia: Lisa Petrova and her friend Grunja
China: Liu Yuan
Czech Republic: Zdenek Lajbner
Hungary: Daniel Kerek
Japan: Shin Muramatsu

Interests

meeting new and interesting people

• arts
• books
• dancing
• tango
• environment
• cooking
• red wine
• vegetarian
• yoga
• walking
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• piano
• cycling
• hiking
• martial arts
• languages
• mountains
• travelling

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: psychedelic sounds of the upper spheres
My track list is full of Dylan, Nick Cave, Sting, blues, old rock and jazz, but I now tend to listen a lot more to some jazzy radio stations I discovered on my radio apps.

Movies: In The Mood For Love; Nostalghia;some Greenaway;some Lars von Trier etc.

Books: Yoko Tawada, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Lolita (Nabokov), Wild Swans (Chang), Makura no soshi (Sei Shonagon), One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest (Kesey), On the Road (Kerouac), Mein Name sei Gantenbein (Frisch), Malina (Bachmann), Die Blechtrommel (Grass), A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole), The Innocent Anthropologist (Barley), Cohen, Bukowski etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

every place I have traveled to has its own story, its fragrance and sounds that stay with me still
but if I have to choose a couple of them, they would be :
seeing the Danube Delta, one of the most beautiful places on Earth; walking 15 km on the Great Wall; seeing the terracotta soldiers and Sichuan masks; artifacts after reading about them in books (I'm a dork about this kind of stuff); traveling alone

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you something about all the languages I know, tell stories, share experiences. I also enjoy cooking, so join me in the kitchen and we'll bake some awesome cakes or even bread, prepare some exquisite dips and sauces etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bulgaria, China, France, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Japan, Romania

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