like many others, moving around made me a bit identity confused so l find myself equally comfortable in a fancy german town next to Alps and a tiny indian village where iliteracy rate is high as the amount of honest smiles.
i have wandered in deserts and slipped on magnificent mountains and swampy jungles, slept on the floor in israeli kibbutzes, survived loud speakers on an egyptian village wedding and capable aunties pulling my saree over my breast in the middle of a grand indian wedding. i have sat 8-9 hours per day on a motorbike through himalayas, going through scary non-existant roads through 8 and 45 degrees in just one day. l have dag and drawn bronze age saunas in the middle of a storm in Ireland. In January. i have ran away from my "bodyguards" and had tea with local arabic farmer family on a dusty carpet in the middle of a field.
i am either a) brave or b) stupid and naive. but i am sure i have hell loads of luck.
sometimes it is hard to comprehend different chapters in my life. have you ever felt as if they are happening to another person?
i have learned that the most admirable person i met are found in the most unexpected contexts and that i would be nowhere if it wasn't for that luck and the strenght of my mother who raised me and allowed me to be who i am, despite the disaproval from surroundings.
I am considered comfortable to be around, bluntly honest, sometimes witty and prone to embarassing and laughing at herself, i have been told that i am the best person to go out with because i am that idiot throwing herself on a dance floor like there is no tomorrow. hence punjabi nights in indian metropolas are a bingo combination for me. l am a quick learner and unfortunately an impatient one too. if we are enough close, i will most certainly rearrange your living space and give you loads of cactus plants. (there are still around 60-70 cactus plants patiently sitting on my friends cubbords around europe). people often warn me to slow down since i try to feed my diverse interests and i end up overcrowding my daily schedule because i often rush into things. not rarely do l have a muscle soreness because l find an emotional outlet in sports - mostly outdoor ones because of the landscape and martial arts that make me confident with my body and slightly decrease my general clumsiness. the trait of pushing myself extends to many aspects in life so you will see me doing that crazy trip or making an extra endurance session, just to test myself.
i am aware of a human ego and am trying to work on grounding mine which now, through a perspective of a person approaching her 30s, was often an obstacle or even a drive in life endevoars. .
some would say i am spiritually promiscuous. i am fascinated by religions and the strenght of people's faith so you will see me wandering through diverse sacred spaces and spying on people in the backround. i try to also take up archaeological research connected to sacred spaces, just to understand how they evolve.
i love fresh starts (maybe because it is easier than continuing and building an old life) and listening to people. i often become the person i am listening to so it is almost like a theatre experiment for me, jumping into the character and that is often an essential part of my travels. the people - the locals. my best friends tell me i am too empathic for my own good. often when i observe someone, l can almost feel their inner emotions which i cannot put into words and am not sure if i am just projecting my own. maybe that is why i get so fascinated by hearing different views on life, l admire how life can be so different from individual to individual. through that diversity i try to track a reason to live and feed my too ambitious need to understand everything around me. that is the reason of me being in CS.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

from burned brownies from best fire juggler i ever witnessed (i see only now how ironic that is), incredibly cosy caravan next to the breathtaking shore of Malta to making pierogi in student dorms in Krakow with an USA dolphin coach/great gatsby with a good soul.
is there anything missing?

Interests

I am not particularly talented in anything so my mediocrity gives me a horrible uncertainty and relieving freedom in swinging between different interests in life. I am sure that is something that must be annoying to the society that promotes focusing on a certain goal. Hence it is something not to brag about.

• photography
• yoga
• rowing
• philosophy
• volunteering
• archaeology
• muay thai
• social activism
• wild camping
• nature conservation
• documentary films

Music, Movies, and Books

quite ecclectic. people ask me for recommendations and sometimes they regret it. but mostly they nod in approval!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

managed to finish vipassana course and not run away. in the middle of south indian jungle, with 70 cm thick pythons crawling around my verandah.

Teach, Learn, Share

How to read layers of the ground.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Loud laughter, good ear for life stories and disturbing knowledge about tea. l'll probably have some good old "paimutan" with me so we might as well share it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Croatia, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal