CURRENT MISSION

Trying to learn new, be balance with nature, my self and other beings, enjoy my days.

ABOUT ME

I love nature and solidarity, arts and culture, good conversations, making things with my hands, cooking dinners together, gardening, rebelling with various ways, swimming and bicycling, camping and skiing in the woods, traveling, learning new, discovering things, sharing things!

Lately I have tried to learn to play guitar and been especially exited about environmental art and worried about climate change.

PHILOSOPHY

Ecology, Solidarity, Peace. Critical mind- Open mind- Creative mind.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I wish to meet people and learn new by visiting others couches and keeping my couch available for you!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I started with Hospitality Club in France, Ive used CS in Berlin and hosted unknown friends at my home in Finland and Iceland...

Interests

Nature. Consuming culture. Changing thoughts. Hands.
Growing things, like plants. Books. Ecocritics, feminism, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, universe. Dreams. The tiny things. Limits. Everydaylife. Cultures. Discovering new, recycling old. Art. History. Pictures. Photos. Movies. Awareness. performance. Radicalism. Marginal. Solidarity. Humanism and then again not. Roots. Leaves. Kindness. Understanding. Trying. Hate and Love. Complexity, trying not really to understand it, I mean trying but failing, but to stand it.

Trees to climbe and sit under, water to dive in and listen, solidarity to reach out our hands, hands to plant and knit and caress, colours to paint, ink to write, breakfasts with friends, snowflakes to melt on the tongue, bikes to ride from A to B or just circles, dreams to explore to meet you to have a conversations to laugh to learn to share.

• arts
• culture
• books
• performing arts
• womens rights
• cooking
• clubbing
• gardening
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• knitting
• painting
• guitar
• camping
• skiing
• swimming
• ecology
• history
• psychology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Joanna Newsom, Ane Brun, Maritta Kuula, Kate Bush, Stina Nordenstam, Emilie Simon, Emiliana Torrini, Sia, Mazzy Star, Ulla Pirttijärvi, Nicole Willis and the Soul Investigators, Patty Smith, Pj Harvey, Cat Power, Sigur Ròs, Mùm, Beirut, Jeff Buckley, Okkervil River, Arcade Fire, Belle&Sebastian, CMX, Aanicirkus, Iron&Wine, Seabear ...

Books:
Ronja, the Robbers Daughter by Astrid Lindgren, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Z-Love story by Vigdis Grimsdottir, His Dark Materials -trilogy by Philip Pullman, Blankets by Greg Thompson (comic), Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (comic), Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami, The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

Finnish literature: Muumins (novels and comics) by Tove Jansson, Olena ja Vassuska by Kaarina Helakisa, Sinuhe Egyptiläinen by Mika Waltari, Johanna Sinisalo: Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi (Not before the sundown). Käsky by Sofi Oksanen, Ilmastonmuutos. Nyt. by Pasi Toivianen, Pirkko Saisio. Poems. ...

Movies:
Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi (Spirited Away) by Hayao Miyazaki (Japan,USA 2001) Mies vailla menneisyyttä (Man Without a Past) by Aki Kaurismäki (Finland 2002), Angels in America directed by Mike Nichols written by Tony Kushner (mini tv-serie, USA 2003) Kukuska (Käki, Cocoon) by Alexandr Rogozhkin (Russia 2004) Efter Bryllupet (After The Wedding) by Susanne Bier (Denmark 2006), Auf der Anderen Seite (Germany/ Turkey 2007), Skrappa ùt (Iceland 2008) ...

the best tv-serie ever: Mighty Boosh!

and many more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of the most beautiful moments; laying in the hot river in a valley in Iceland, surrounded by snowy mountains, sky full of stars and northern lights... * * * * *

Teach, Learn, Share

I know how to make felt. And thats easy to teach as well.
But needs patience to make.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Greece, India, Latvia, Norway, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Iceland, Italy

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