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Overview

  • 56 references 40 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Polish; learning German, Norwegian, Spanish
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • translator
  • Translation Studies, English Philology, American Studies
  • From Kraków
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

see as much as it's possible, learn as much as I can, experience the World in all of its diversity

ABOUT ME

I fail at human relationships but at least I listen to good music
just joking, never know what to answer when people ask questions like that. but I do listen to good music ;)and I like tea

PHILOSOPHY

Can we actually "know" the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

by hosting people, showing them Kraków or simply giving advice(where to eat, listen to good music, have fun, etc.).Sometimes I also participate in local CS meetings.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been CouchSurfing through Sweden,Denmark,Italy, Spain met some wonderful people, seen some amazing places.

Interests

Music!I am also interested in languages, diplomacy, intercultural communication,nonverbal communication, film

  • cooking
  • music
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: mainly indie rock: Interpol, Editors, Modest Mouse, Spoon, Beirut,Bon Iver, Arctic Monkeys, Pavement, Bords of Canada, Weezer, Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Animal Collective jazz: Miles Davis, Tomasz Stań€žko, Leszek Możdżer, Dave Brubeck, Wayne Shorter,Weather Report The Cinematic Orchestra but I also like Regina Spektor, Florence + The Machine, Sigur Ros, Mugison, Beck, Jamie Lidell, Foals, Moloko, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Fleet Foxes, Pink Floyd, the Doors,Pixies, Broken Bells, M83, Bonobo, Jamie Woon, Wire, Air, The XX, The Antlers, James Blake and many many more

Movies: Match Point, Love and Death, Annie Hall, Casablanca, Coffee and Cigarettes, Seven, Keeping the Faith, The Graduate, Primal Fear, Shame, Midnihgt in Paris, Apocalypse Now, Argo, the Departed and series such as Dexter, True Detective, Criminal Minds, Flight of the Conchords, How I Met Your Mother, House of Cards
Books: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Chuck Palachniuk, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel G. Marquez, Margaret Atwood,Thomas Mann, Tennessee Williams, John Steinbeck, George R.R.Martin

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

leaving bed in Winter before 9:00.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Polish, cooking sth good out of nothing,
Learn: Anything and everything,some Finish or Norwegian , how to use a map to stop asking people "where am I?"

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, Spain

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