Professionally: visual artist, graphic and type designer
Personally: Open-minded seeker of the nice one

I speak the language of image and make worth things visible. I create typefaces (seen as fonts which you can use when typing on a keyboard), calligraphy and lettering; create different graphic designs (presentations, logos, magazines etc.), drawings and illustrations; I teach also type design, calligraphy and lettering at National Arts Academy, Sofia.

You can see what I do here:
https://www.behance.net/NikiPetrus
and here:
https://www.instagram.com/petrusenik/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Various Reasons, maybe as the reason you have.
Want to meet up and hang out with interesting people, to exchange culture, I adore to learn new languages and to practice them with natives. I am not the standard tourist, but rather prefer to look at things from a local, inner perspective, to mix with the residents.

Interests

Mоре is never too much.
Art in all its forms and ages, graphic and type design, photography, listening. playing and generating music, literature, poetry, languages, sports, cuisine, web design and interactive media, architecture, product, fashion, sound design, glitch, the universe, sciences, technologies, quantum physics, medicine, anatomy, biology, philosophy, psychology, experimenting, breaking the borders, imagination, etc. …
I am open-minded to every culture. I speak fluent Bulgarian, Russian, English, German, but I manage too with French, Italian, Turkish, Polish and Ukrainian.
I am currently deepening in Dutch, Arabic and Turkish.
I deal too with the scripts of Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese Hiragana, Katakana & Kanji, Chinese hanzi, Korean hangul, Devanagari etc.
I am a pacifist and ecologic, I love the people, the animals, nature etc.

• animals
• arts
• culture
• literature
• poetry
• architecture
• design
• fashion
• photography
• music
• sports
• anatomy
• biology
• communications
• languages
• medicine
• physics
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Everything that sounds and looks worth and nice.
I adore arthouse films, like those of Stanley Kubrick, Michael Hanecke, Andrey Tarkovsky, Lars von Trier, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodóvar, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Luis Buñuel, Wes Anderson and many more...
I have made a huge list of books and films, that is obligatory for me.
I love to perform works by Chopin (when I have contact with the piano), though I listen to every kind of music—spanning from Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Classical, Romantic, Avant-guard, Modern (XX century), Contemporary Classical, Jazz, Flamenco, Blues, R'n'B, Hip Hop, Bossa Nova, Rock, Metal, Grunge, Punk, New Wave, Alternative, Indie, Electronic to Folklore in various countries (Bulgaria, Brazil, Mali, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Poland, Australia, Arabic countries, Israel, China… )

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Every single second we make miracles, life is a constant miracle.
I slept under the sky full with comets. I dived into the Red sea. Swam deep into the Black sea under 2 miles-long flock of storks during the sunset. I caught a flight 10 minutes before take-off and an accelerating train. I drove a bicycle with a suitcase on my back. I drove next to panzers on a highway and travelled on a UNIFIL jeep from the 1960s. I travelled on a car road trip from Sofia to Russia and from Sofia to France and Benelux. I found a shelter in a pilgrim house once and slept over a synagogue for two weeks. I worked on an Arabic typeface from a 1922 Qur’an and created a piece of design for quantum physics contemplation. I studied in two high schools at the same time and attended music classes simultaneously.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you in several languages, basic of drawing, design, music and piano, calligraphy in various scripts (Latin, Cyrillic, Glagolitic, Arabic, Hebrew, Indic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean), cooking, singing, swimming and many more skills …

What I Can Share with Hosts

Nice talks and share experiences.
Unfortunately now I don't have place in my home to share with guests.
But possibly in the future.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Netherlands