CURRENT MISSION

being happy :) NB! Due to completing my dissertation at Uni Bremen, I am running below the radar of social-ity. Won't be able to host ( and good for you, I've turned into a scruffy monster lost in the debris with theories and literary agendas

ABOUT ME

Goethe: " If I knew myself, I?d run away" .....

NB: (caution: all info written 6 wild years ago; consider character changes due to irrevocable traumas of growing up!, spiritual tattooed cats stretched to lions on the inside of skin; rhysomic roots found deep inside while climbing out of myself so not as airborne as before )

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I will dis-orientate you just to show you there was never so much abundance in the choice of direction as when one is lost...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

(caution: all info written 6 wild years ago; consider character changes due to irrevocable traumas of growing up!, spiritual tattooed cats stretched to lions on the inside of skin; rhysomic roots found deep inside while climbing out of myself so not as airborne as before )

I travel with wide-open eyes drinking up all I see, my heart is easily inspired and I feel at home on the road. Don't care for destinations much as long as the path I am on has a heart. I am a museum-nut, would move to live in the Louvre if I could. The two hedgehogs in my pants leave me restless, so I have to go to as many cultural events as I can ( grew up going to the theatre every week, love exhibitions, concerts, etc). Inner chaos and impulsiveness stuck to my desire to experience all I can dictate the majority of my choices. No need to seek logic or rationality in them. I guess the only consistency that I allow myself is being like the fox in The Little Prince: trying to make ties with the world. I will excuse every step with the desire to experience ...Here is where CouchSurfing comes in handy. It fits my longing for adventure and a constant new horizon. hitch-hiking is fun when done literally, but also down Metaphorical Lane,as a belief that we all travel in the same direction, where we come from or where we go couldn't matter less, as long as we find a place we belong to. sleeping on the beach is romantic ( there was never any romance in predictability was there?), sleeping on a stranger's couch is allowing yourself an adventure in mystery: you make up the puzzle with just a few pieces, a few portraits on the wall with people you might never meet but matter enough to be someone's framed affection, a few new book suggestions, a few quirks that you might include in a story you will write ten years from now... I am too much of a dreamer to perceive CouchSurfing as practicality to safe money. It's rather an essential part of the journey. For those who worry they don't have anything to offer but a floor space for a sleeping bag: for the record: I would sacrifice much from my comfort for the sake of creating a memory. What happened to people committing heroism in peaceful times? Chesterton said that angels fly because they take themselves lightly. Pretty valid for my experiences and the way I perceive them.

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: "The Doors of Perception" A. Huxley, 'The Tao of Physics" F. Capra, "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" S. Rinpoche, "The Moor's Last Sigh" S. Rushdie, "No Exit" J. P. Sartre, "The Wall" J. P. Sartre, " Tender is Night" F. S. Fitzgerald; " Killing me Softly" N. French; " Birds Die Alone" K. M.; "Lolita" V. Nabokov; " The Master and Margarita" M. Bulgakov " Citizen of Space" , ' Immortality,Inc'', ''The Status Civilization'' Robert Sheckley , 'The Bluest Eye' T.Morison, 'Waiting for Godot' S. Beckett, 'The Amphibian Man' A. Beliaev, 'The Good Soldier' F. M. Ford, 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' M. Kundera, 'The Little Prince' A. Exupery, 'The City and The City' Ch. Mieville...also fan of biographies - one of the most stimulating ones was this written for Edith Piaf by Simone Berteaut

Music: Lhasa De Sela, Sigur Ros, Rodrigo and Gabriela, The Frames, Emilie Simon,Nicolas Jaar, Smoke City, Bjork, Royksopp, Goran Bregovich,Manu Chao,The Black Keys, Red Hot Chilly Peppers,Bob Marley, raggae, hip-hop, some old stuff which will last forever, big fan of classical music for my quiet moments, find Chopin exquisite...believe that good music should only be listened to lying on the floor, eyes closed

Movies : 'The Dead Girl', 'Rope', 'Masculin-Feminin', ,8 1/2', 'Before Night Falls', 'The Idiots'; The colour trilogy- 'Blue';'Red';'White';" The English Patient"; " The Siberian barber"; "Hero"; "Contact";" Old Boy";" Life is Wonderful"; " Instinct" ; " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" ;'Odyssee Weltraum 2001' ( Kubrick); " Leaving Las Vegas" ; " Stalingrad"; "artificial Intellegence" ; " Brave heart", " Anna and the King";'Fargo';'The Reader', 'Mr. Nobody', 'Once', 'The Fall', 'Ondine', 'The Imaginerium of Dr. Parnassus', 'Adam', 'A very long engagement', 'The Hours', 'My life Without Me', 'The Godfather', 'Amelie', 'Harold and Maude', 'Notes on a Scandal', 'Mr. Nobody', 'The Fountain', 'Requiem for a Dream','Once Upon a Time in America', 'The Commitments', 'The Field', 'Wendy and Lucy', 'Mississippi Burning', 'The Gods must be crazy I, II, III', 'Inside I am Dancing', 'Dancing with Wolves', 'American History X', 'Once Were Warriors','Mulholland Drive', 'My Cousin Vinny', 'Black Cat, White Cat', 'Veronica Guerin','Limitless', 'The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', 'My Left Foot',etc. all kind of historical documentaries,find a grain of brilliance in all created by D. Lynch, T. Gilliam, Lars von Trier, Kieslowski....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Start fire with a spindle on my own.
Spent my eighteenth birthday in a cave.
Every time I go back to Bulgaria, I hug my mom at the airport and I find home again.
Was probably the only person who was about to be run over by a plane for the sake of a present.
Tackled a tarantula in my sink.
Every time I fall in love, I fall in love for the first time.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, San Marino, Scotland, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bulgaria, England, Germany

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