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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, Latvian; learning Norwegian Bokmål, Russian
  • 32, Female
  • Member since 2012
  • No occupation listed
  • Tourism managament
  • From Latvia
  • Profile 80% complete

About Me

ABOUT ME

I'm a simple person, always smiling, very easygoing and ready for new adventures. Love to talk with people and get new friends.
I enjoy fun things.
At the beginning I could seem like a shy person, but when you get to know me and when I feel comfortable with new people around me - I love joking and I let people laugh at me because I have learned laugh at myself!

PHILOSOPHY

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough"
- Albert Einstein

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My friends are using this opportunity mostly all the time when they are traveling.. So, encouraged by their stories and experiences, last year I tried to surf in New York - for the first time, just by myself - and I found that it's a truly an amazing way how to travel, to meet people and most of all - to see the world.

Interests

-Active lifestyle!
-love swimming, biking, hiking, camping, skiing, ice skating
-for the last years - running is one of my favorite things to do (two half-marathons in my pocket for now)
-my latest discovery in Norway is climbing - I totally love it!
-I love to play beach volley and basketball, mostly streetball, but just for fun
-playing piano
-listening live music and dancing
-I really, really love good movies
-enjoying time with my family and friends
-T R A V E L I N G. "Traveling" can learn you so much! But one of the best reasons to travel is that this creates relationships with lots of different people!!!
-I love adventures and I love to find beautiful places where I can get lost .

  • running
  • movies
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • piano
  • outdoor activities
  • skiing
  • basketball
  • volleyball
  • swimming
  • languages
  • volunteering
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Book Thief, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Pearl Harbor, About Time, The Intouchables, The Wolf of Wall Street, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Prisoners, Good Morining,Vietnam..

Music: Colplay, One Republic, Brainstorm, Florence and the Machine
Mumford And Sons, Moby, Queen, Muse, Lana Del Ray..

Books: Wild, The Sound of Music, Harry Potter, The Ultimate Gift, The Secret, One day, Eat,Pray,Love, The Lovely Bones, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Hunger games..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-one of my biggest challenges in my life that I took was exchange studies for 6 months in Norway, not because of those 6 months for not being at home, but for going by myself to unknown place and for taking study program – Nordic skiing and outdoor life in wintertime
-making snow caves and sleeping in it
-5 day skiing trips with 30 kg backpack in forest, in mountains in Norway winter
-standing on Kjeragbolten
-sitting at the edge of Trolltunga and Preikestolen
-camping next to all those places without any tourists
-talking with base jumper and then suddenly "see you" and seeing how he jumped from the cliff
-swimming and chasing big waves in Atlantic ocean in USA
-couchsurfing in NYC
-seeing my first northern light in Norway
-climbing Via Ferrata Loen and crossing suspension bridge
-hiking and then standing on the top of Slogen (1564 m.o.h.)
-studying norwegian language in Høgskulen i Volda (2015/2016)! One of my greatest, most beautiful, most adventurous year in whole life! So many beautiful new people, friends I got during this year! Now just have to start to visit them around whole world!
-last and craziest trip - to Colombia!

Countries I’ve Visited

Colombia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Latvia, Norway, United States

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