CURRENT MISSION

To take chances and use opportunities.

PHILOSOPHY

1. The chances are given for you to use them.
2. Everything happens for the best. Even if it does not seem so at this point.
3. There is no use to worry about things you cannot impact anyways. And there are many more useful ways of spending your energy and resources than worrying about those things.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have been hosted and I am open for a cup of coffee or a drink most of time both in Riga and in Tartu, whichever place I happen to be at.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing has been both saviour of my trips in emergency situations at some times and enhancer of travelling joys at other.

Interests

Traditions. National, cultural, academical. Very old ones and recently formed ones. Any. Really, any.
Ancestry search and through that - history of the "little man", not kings and generals.
And, of course my PhD research topic - adolescents and their online privacy.

• coffee
• drinking
• traveling
• genealogy
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Traditional (world) music (especially different combinations of bagpipes and drums).
Movies: Elizabeth (because of Cate Blanchett). Devil wears prada (because of Meryl Streep). Hobbit (because of itself). And all those girly romances with happy endings.
Books: At the moment - few shelves of them related to the topic of my Masters thesis. What can I say - my studies is also one of my hobbies.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Started my PhD studies.
I still am quite surprised, that I managed to step out of my comfort zones to that extent in many senses.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Latvia