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Overview

  • 18 references 11 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Swedish; learning Arabic, Spanish
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • med student
  • medical school
  • From Stockholm, Sweden
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

enjoying scandinavian summer

ABOUT ME

I am attracted by places of conflict or controversy. I can't explain why.

I'm opinionated on a few topics though a bit afraid of ideologies. Passionate when it gets personal. Interested in issues relating to migration, refugees, human rights, health inequalities, gender and more.

I love to read, and I love libraries and book stores. I love stunning landscapes: high mountains and open waters. Swedish apples is my favourite fruit (and that's about as nationalistic I get).

I like to have a meaning or pursuit with what I do. I put pride in being independent, makes life a bit lonely sometimes.

I realise all sentences above start with "I", while I try to come off as altruistic. I guess I'm contradictive like people in general.

PHILOSOPHY

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Expanding my comfort zone: feeling like home in new places

I feel suffocated travelling in big groups, personal meetings is what I apprechiate about CS.

I'm no sight-seer when I travel. Everyday life in a new place, that's what I enjoy. Getting lost walking/biking in a new city, grocery shopping, people watching, late night-talking, are some things I enjoy doing in new places.

I travel to meet people and to live for a short while in another place, that's why CS appeals to me!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I surfed and met CSers in Palestine and Israel, surfed in northern norway, and I met many cool CSers while I was living in Oslo. Have hosted a little, find it difficult to include CS in my normal Stockholm-life.. Sadly.

Interests

Regularly (I'm a creature of habit): running, cooking, baking bread, reading, hiking, sailing, skiing, NGO-work, recently I have started knitting

Occassionally: rock climbing, yoga. I used to be a scuba diver until I had an episode of DCS.

What I'd love to say were my interests, but I'm not there yet (or maybe in another life?): piano playing, drawing, photography, telemark skiing, singing, languages, journalism, blogging, public health research, hitch hiking with a tent, marathons, writing

  • writing
  • books
  • singing
  • photography
  • human rights
  • cooking
  • baking
  • yoga
  • running
  • walking
  • shopping
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • blogging
  • knitting
  • drawing
  • music
  • piano
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • scuba diving
  • sailing
  • skiing
  • rock climbing
  • telemark skiing
  • journalism
  • languages
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Morrissey, Bob Marley, Tracy Chapman, anthony and the johnsons, belle and sebastian, norah jones, Säkert!/Hello Saferide, king creosote, nina kinert, magic numbers, the knife & fever ray, the cardigans, tiger lou, nina simone, EST, martha & rufus wainwright, yasmin levy, robyn, lykke li, ane brun, markus krunegård, midaircondo, florence + the machine, jennie abrahamson and more.. mostly indiepop or singersongwriter music. jazz is nice too. Or music that Gilad and Bjørn Inge provide me with.

I love travel accounts, Persian Pilgrimages by Afshin Molavi is a favourite. My favourite author is Hemingway, I was really affected by Khaled Hosseinis style of writing aswell. Otherwise, I read mostly novels, a bit of biografies and documentaries. And I love newspapers.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Picking fresh figs straight from the trees in Palestine.

I love bus rides, one of few situations I don't get stressed about doing nothing. Bus ride from Narvik to Svolvaer was unreal.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: I can explain the pathophysiology behind all wierd diseases your family and friends have. Please stop me if I'm getting too excited.

Learn: I would be thrilled if you could show me how to cook a new dish or introduce me to some new music.

Share: Don't judge people, judge actions.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Netherlands, Palestine, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Norway, Sweden, United States

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