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Overview
About Me
THIS IS NOT A DATING WEBSITE!
Interests
I love learning foreign languages and (slow)traveling, discovering other cultures, customs and new places. I absolutely adore reading books (mostly modern literature and books which it takes so long to read because after each sentence you stop and start to contemplate life). I feel like literature is the form of art that speaks to me the most and it really touches me very deeply when I find a piece of myslef in a book. I also like playing video games (RPG, adventure games, Harvest Moons) cooking, baking and eating (CAKES! I love cakes). I've never thought that at some point I would say it about myself, but I'm into sports too - I'm absolutely in love with krav maga and I like to go jogging between the trainings.
- books
- cooking
- video games
- reading
- traveling
- languages
- krav maga
Music, Movies, and Books
Some of my favourite books ever, which in one way or the other touched my soul:
(although I sometimes have an impression that very often it's not about the book, but about the time in my life when I was reading it)
- 'Flights' by Olga Tokarczuk
- 'The Witcher' by Andrzej Sapkowski
- 'Habibi' by Craig Thompson
- 'The Vegetarian' by Han Kang
- 'Loneliness On The Net' by Janusz Leon Wisniewski
- 'Chicago' by Alaa Al-Aswani
- 'Purezento' by Joanna Bator
- 'Wenn's brennt' by Stephan Reich
- 'Shantaram' by Gregory David Roberts
- 'Was man von hier aus sehen kann' by Mariana Leky
-'Cudze slowa' by Wit Szostak
Music:
- Mashrou Leila!!
- Yasmine Hamdan
- Myslovitz
- AnnenMayKantereit
- Cigarettes after sex
- The Black Keys
- Archive
- Apocalyptica
- K.Flay
- Kings of leon
Rock music, sentimental 90s stuff, chillout music etc.
Films:
- The reader
- Once
- Butterfly effect
- Et maintenant on va où?
- Lost in translation
- American beauty
- Fight Club
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
- hitchhiking through Lebanese mountains with every possible mean of transport
- scholarship in Cairo! Unforgettable, carefree time of my life
- quitting corporation job and starting to do something that really matters
- taking one month break from a regular life and going solo to Mexico without any expectations and not much of a plan, which turned out to be the best journey I ever had
- learning to enjoy my own company and spending time by myself
Teach, Learn, Share
I can teach you some polish/arabic (depending on what's more exotic to you), basic self-defence techniques and how to make crazy vegan cakes with unusual ingredients.
Countries I’ve Visited
Canada, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Qatar, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Turkey, Vatican City State, Viet Nam
Countries I’ve Lived In
Egypt, Germany, Iraq, Lebanon, Poland, Syrian Arab Republic