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  • 37 references 23 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Polish; learning Norwegian
  • 33, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Marketing at a University
  • English Philology at Warsaw University, International Mar...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To explore, learn and experience the world in all its beauty and all its ugliness

ABOUT ME

hmm my story is that after I have graduated from the Warsaw University with a degree in English Philology, I decided that I am sick of being in this place and I want to go and explore the world so I moved to Oslo. After a year there I made up my mind yet again that it's time for yet another adventure so I have moved to Vietnam and started teaching English. Two more years passed and I am in London quite possibly partying my life away.
More about me: I am a social butterfly, love meeting new people, especially from different countries and cultures than my own. Education and continuing self-improvement are something that I strive for in life, therefore, I am savvy about everything that other are willing to teach me. However, I am not stuck-up and I imagine I can get along with pretty much everyone.
I am really hyperactive, funny (I guess it should be for others to judge haha) and spontaneous. Can be positively crazy at times, or most possibly most of the time.

PHILOSOPHY

Enjoy your life. Try to do as many weird things as you can. The most interesting and worthy things are those that happen to you in the most random of circumstances so do not be afraid but just go out in the world and immerse yourself in the experience, because after all you only have this one life and then it's only eternity of nothingness.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Mainly couchsurfed so far and was an absolute blast. Also attended a lot of CS events at times and was fortunate to host a handful of times as well.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Been part of the community for a couple of years now, couchsurfed through few Europen countries and it totally changed everything for me I may say. Met weirdos just like me and crazy people and awesome people and fun people and did crazy awesome fun stuff. Truly devine.

Interests

Everything connected with culture, literature and language of GB and US, Jewish culture, modern literature, contemporary cinema, art - love visiting all those boring galleries:D Recently political economy.

  • arts
  • culture
  • literature
  • performing arts
  • movies
  • reading

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: too many to try to list them. Everything with Edward Norton, Jeremy Irons and Kevin Spacey (should not name this one anymore I suppose!)

Books: Ian McEwan; Philip Roth; Beat Generation, Joseph Stiglitz, Khaled Hosseini.

Music: lately big on electronic music. iTo name a few: alt-j (my fav band in the whole wide world),Four Tet, Sir Was, Boards of Canada, Foals, Fuck Buttons, Jeff Buckley, Parachute Youth.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hopping on stage and interrupting band performance during New Year's Eve in Berlin only to ask them if I could play with them and being handed in a tambourine, boy was I happy!

Swimming naked on an August night on one of the Oslo's islands and seeing the reflection of all the lights and the stars in the unmoved water surface.

Visiting Israel after years of learning about it and experiencing the amazing hospitality of people and richness of the culture.

Swimming with whale sharks in the Philippines.

Teach, Learn, Share

“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, Philippines, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Norway, Poland, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

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