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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
learn as much as possible
ABOUT ME
Would-be biologist, still in love with the world. Intercultural psychologist and crisis intervent. Traveler, explorer with unshakeable hope. Photographer by passion.
I've studied social psychology and internal security in Warsaw than spent a year on a scholarship in Istanbul. I do specialize in psychology of acculturation and crisis intervention. Currently I'm engaged in research on the LGBT movement and acculturation of Poles in Turkey. Since 2007 I'm on board at the Center for Intercultural Initiatives, where I initially was teaching Polish language and I was a coordinator at the Centre for Refugees. I also work with the foundation of Prof. Bronislaw Geremek Center. I am a sailor and I try to spend every free moment traveling. My other passions? I'm skipper and i sail on big tallships all around, I play djembe and try to develop the project for hihglander traditional music in Polish Tatra Mountains. Recently I've started rock-climbing and snowboarding.
PHILOSOPHY
"Borders? I have never seen one, but have heard they exist in the minds of some people" -Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I don't have big CouchSurfing experiences but I was taking a part in international exchanges and some time I'm hosting someone. I'm also member of Hospitality Club and airbnb.
Interests
sailing/ photography/ mountain trecking/ djembe/ theatre/ Moroccain and Portuguese cuisine/ singing/ red wine/ folk music/rock climbing
- singing
- photography
- cooking
- wine
- red wine
- clubbing
- traveling
- music
- folk music
- sailing
- snowboarding
- rock climbing
- biology
- psychology
- mountains
Music, Movies, and Books
movies: French, Algerian, Mexicn cinematography
music: punk,reggae, rai, future folk, jazz
books: Elif Safak, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Conrad...
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
- sailing on STS Fryderyk Chopin
Teach, Learn, Share
sailing, cooking, packig your luggage, intercultural comunication, photography
Countries I’ve Visited
Belgium, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
Poland, Turkey, United States
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