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Eltondo

ABOUT ME

I was born in 1988 in Bydgoszcz which is picturesque city in northern-western Poland. My childhood was really happy period of my life for sure. Bydgoszcz in Poland is my beloved hometown. Beside I would love to travel all life I would never forget about what word "“home" means for me.

One day I've realized that my dream is travelling and painting walls at whole world... and since this moment I still try to make this dream come true.

I am artist. Now I am trying to find myself in art. Don’t get me wrong. Art is not perfect craft. In my opinion art is nothing else - sending emotions to other people. So often people misunderstand this notion and define it as well-done craft. Dancing in course, painting amazing landscapes, acting in theatre… sometimes all of these could be just craft, just following the steps. In the same time all ordinary activities like f.e. making coffee, walking in the rain, fixing car can become art as long “creator” wants to send signal to other people.

Many people say that I look much younger than I am and I have face of boy. It is nice, isn’t?

Happy Intelligent Funnny Friendly Open-minded Sociable Ambitious Smart Talkative Self-confident Young Original Creative Decided Chaotic Artistic

No pretense...

:. GRAYSCALE&YELLOW: ART HOME FAMILY SMILE CRAYONS BODY GIRL LOVE POLAND MULTICOLOUR CURIOUSITY SMART TRAINLINE BEERS GIRLS GRAFFITI DRUGS VIOLENCE WINE DARK FUN LOST TAGS MUSIC ASPIRATION TRUTH
:. BLUE&SCARLET PINK:
BERLIN PINK ROMANCE ASIAN HIGH HOPE OPEN EYES MIND WORLD STREET ART EXHIBITION ROME EXPEDITION PIZZA FRIENDSHIP SKILLS SUN SECESSION NEWSPAPER SEX OFFICE EDUCATION RELIGION PARTY NITRA LOG SUMMER FUN FREEDOM BUDAPEST BRATISLAVA VIENNA WINE AUTUMN TORTILLA ARABIC BED CULTURE MILANO RAILWAY DORM AUTUMN LOVE DREAM BRIDGE HOME WORK CHOPSTICKS VODKA ROMANCE PASSION TICKET TRAIN BUDAPEST BEOGRADE SARAJEVO AWARENESS
:. PASTEL ORANGE: WINTER OFFICE LOVE CHINESE PASTEL ORANGE HAPPINESS HUO GUO ASPIRATION JOB STUDIO COOPERATION DATES GROUP DECISION LANGUAGES MIND CALLIGRAPHY HEALTH SPRAYPAINTING
:. CARAMELO ORANGE: PLANE PEOPLE ISTANBUL INK RAKI KEBAB SEA KIDS HELP WHITE JOURNEY BLACK. WHITE

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PHILOSOPHY

:. Truth Goodness and Beauty. It is the answer for everything. I am trying to follow steps to cultivate life with these three supreme values.

I’m agnostic but with the same ethic system as almost every religion.

Happiness is not about getting new desires. It is about renounce the desires.

Property is kind of theft. People are as worth as their doings are. Don’t measure people by what they have.

Get naked to face everything. Don’t be scare of the truth. Don’t avoid it. It is not the easiest but the simplest way.

Almost everything has a cause.

Philosophical rationalism

Never regret in your life. It the most horrible situation when you regret of not doing or doing something.

Love is giving and sharing, not getting.

Culture programmed us.

Don’t waste time which is given.

Don’t be scared of death. Live calmly with awareness that it will come.

The rules which don't have pragmatic value are pointless.

Everyone (almost) is responsible for his situation. Don't complain - just do something with your life. I claim that we have huge influence on our lives because of our decisions and attitudes. Life is priceless gift.

Be good to other people. Probably even you will reach Mount Everest, get perfect job and speak five languages you are noone without other people. In other words we are social beings. That's why I think help is something genuine. This attitude pushed into voluntary work in Turkey with children and elderly people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

What’s for sure... People who I met with Couch Surfing have change my life one time forever. I did couch surfing in many places, meanly in Europe f.e.: Berlin, Brno, Gdansk, Istanbul, Vienna, Warsaw. I hanged out with csurfers in Bratislava, Istanbul, Nitra, Rome. Moreover I have found amazing travelmates on this website. With one Asian girl I travel about two weeks in Poland and Hungary.

:. Gatherings/meetings
- Riga Cool Times - 2013
- Budapest, Hungary meeting - 2013
- Dundalk, Ireland meetings - 2012
- Istanbul CS Conference – 2011
- Slovakia meeting – 2009
- Plenty of meetings in Bydgoszcz 2009 till now

While I am not travelling I try to meet people in my city. There are a lot of abroad students, festival members and travellers so I try to show them city and do what I can. CS is important part of my life and I m active frequently.

Interests

:. Art & Travelling - my lifetime dream
My two biggest passions are definitely art and travelling. In fact I m trying to dedicate myself into that and briefly saying these things are really important. I am really obssesed by art. Painting is something which was present in my life since I was small boy. Then I have small accent with painting on the streets kind of graffiti. Later I turned into street art way. Right now painting walls by spray cans is my main technique. In the meantime I felt in love with travelling. Visiting other places became quickly my passion. I have started to join both things: travelling and painting what created amazing mixture and aim of life as well. My idea was just to creating a wall or pasting posters in places I have visited. Right now all bareers for me are “just” time and money.

Ars longa vita brevis - Art gives me possibility to express myself. I am human being and my soul wants to scream about my feelings. Using paints on canvas is perfect way to do that.

Here are some of my smaller passions:

:. Cookings
Maybe it could sounds banal but in my opinion kitchen can be one of the warmest room in our homes. Definately because preparing and eating food together can make people closer. For some time I was cooking for other people when I was living abroad. I am not amazing cook but I sincerly enjoy to serve meals for people. Moreover I like to wash dishes.
:. Languages
It’s something natural to be interested in linguistics when you are interested in travelling. I had some contact with russian, italian, french and chinese. As for me turkish language is one of the most interesting. Probably it sounds as gorgeous and melodic as arabic. I m still trying to develop my English in the meantime. I was speaking some Slovakian also because it is similar to polish (means easy to absorb). Moreover I m going to learn one other language – maybe spanish?
:. Philosophy, sociology, psychology
Sociology is branch of knowledge which everytime interested me mostly. I love read articles about psychology of human and behaviours of each groups. I also interested in philosophy. However it is not a hobby... rather still lifelong searching. Anyway all of these subjects are extremely pragmatic.

• arts
• culture
• street art
• acting
• beauty
• festivals
• dancing
• education
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• walking
• partying
• traveling
• socializing
• painting
• music
• surfing
• swimming
• calligraphy
• teaching
• history
• languages
• psychology
• religion
• sociology
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

:. Movies:
Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Enter The Void, Frida, Harry Brown, Into The Wild, Liz and Dick, Rules of Attraction, Slumdog Millionaire

:. Music:
Although I have really open soul it seems like I am close in music preferences a little bit. My favourite one are electronic performers - especially drum'n'bass. Examples? Black Sun Empire, Burial, Coldplay, Evol Intent, FFF, High Contrast, Klute, Muslimgauze, Sebastien Tellier, Vitalic. Maybe a little bit reggae also. Sometimes I listen to classical music too including Frideric Chopin and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

:. Books:
In the past I was reading almost every book of Stephen King and plenty of polish and british novels. As a kid I read much more than now. I read almost all serie of The Three Investigators by Robert Arthur Jr. which means about 61 positions.

Chalupski Adam - Rowerem do Indii
Choszcz Kinga Chopin – Prowadził nas los
De Melo Anthony – Awakening
Dodgson Charles Lutwidge - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Sienkiewicz Henryk – W pustyni i w puszczy
Tolkien J.R.R. - The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Voltaire - Candide
Wróblewski Paweł - Do ciepłych krajów

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Actually I think that my life is quite amazing.
- Peeing on electrical fence without purpose
- I was hit with a bow in my eye and since that time my sight in right eye is bad.
- Trainsurfing in Poland
- Taking muddy bath in Woodstock Festival
- Romance with one Asian girl which seemed like from fairy tale
- Breaking in to one park in Rome and escaping through roof
- Sleeping in the railway in Milano among homeless people
- Not speaking for 24 hours among people
- Travelling in freezing winter from Slovakia to Poland within 24 hours with 8 transfers
- Having surprise bday party with twenty people waiting for me
- Having party in 5 stars hotel for few days and meeting rich’s world in Antalya
- Seeing the sunset in Kelebek Vadisi
- Eating the spicest paprika ever in Turkey
- Gas exploded 4 metres next to me when I was painting
- Going to Hamam in Istanbul
- Swimming in cold Karadeniz in january
- seeing snow in Iraq

2964,7 km by hitchhiking
42783 km by train

LOVE, ART, TRAVEL

Teach, Learn, Share

:. Polish language is quite difficult and many people said that it sounds as rustling leaves. I can teach you few sentences. Actually I got some experience in teaching polish. I was learning one turkish student who was staying in my city. After time she was pretty good in speaking!
:. Lifelong learning I have realised that when we travel we see people just for moment.. Usually we can meet someone just one time. That makes it so special and amazing. While travelling our emotions are stronger and more beautiful. Our exchange could be really genuine. I can speak openly stories of my life which are full of emotions. I want to learn something from you also. Exchanging minds, ideas, thoughts, emotions, views, opinions.

What I Can Share with Hosts

- show you have to do street art
- show you basic self-defense moves
- show you history of graffiti
- cook polish dishes with you
- tell you thousbands of trave stories
- explain how stock-exchange works

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Gambia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Palestine, Panama, Philippines, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Western Sahara

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey

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