My name is Maria and I am currently living in Bucharest. I can say about me I am curious, relaxed and open-minded. I love to meet new, different people, share a beer and hear all about the weirdest experiences they had in their lifetime. I easily get excited about a new topic and I enjoy very much when somebody introduces me to something I may never really thought about. I like to think I’m spontaneous, best plan is to have no plan. Just see how things are figuring out themselves, explore the realm of possibilities, expand the options.

I love traveling, having new experiences and getting familiar with other cultures. Especially, I am interested in traveling around the Balkans and having a personal insight about the region. I seek to go off the beaten path and know the stories behind the places.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I would like both to get you introduced into the Bucharest atmosphere and Romanian culture and to have the opportunity to meet you while I’m traveling.

Interests

History and politics of the Balkan region, Byzantine theology, right-wing politics, cultural exchange, literature, writing, cooking, nature

• culture
• writing
• literature
• cooking
• drinking
• politics
• board games
• traveling
• swimming
• divinity
• history
• philosophy
• series
• deep conversations
• theology
• sunbathing
• existentialism

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain, Aldous Huxley - Brave New World, Pascal Bruckner - The New Love Disorder, Hermann Hesse - Narcissus and Goldmund, John Fowles - The Magus, Ken Kesey - One Flew over the Cuckoo`s Nest, C.S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters, Mesa Selimovic - Death and the Dervish, Nikos Kazantzakis - Report to El Greco, Kafka - The Castle, Sartre - Nausea, G. K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy, Dostoievski - The Brothers Karamazov, Christos Yannaras - Against Religion

Movies: Midnight Express, Before the Rain, The Wave, Fight Club, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Zorba the Greek, Filantropica, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, American Beauty, Bitter Moon, Gone with the Wind, Black Swan, The Fountainhead, The Addams Family, The Last Station

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Romania, Serbia