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  • 19 references 14 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Slovene; learning German, Russian, Spanish
  • 38, Other
  • Member since 2006
  • just about everything
  • by life, people, books, experiences
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Breathe. Just breathe.

ABOUT ME

A little bit of everything- funny, artistic, working, talkative, organized, avanturistic, creative, non-organized, lazy and sometimes (with pleasure) also a couch potatoe.
I am kinda of writer and book-lover. Love tea, good beer, good company.

PHILOSOPHY

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."

"It's better to try and fail rather than die without trying."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Help travellers find directions (you know, we've all been there, stanting on some corner staring at the map, thinking which way to go), I host when I can and I love to surf other's couches as well.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

was hosted in the following countries so far: Finland, prague, spain, greece and UK , but hopefully many to come :), because had loads of fun. and also at RARE occasions i managed to host - during the summer mostly

Interests

music, traveling, art, thinking, music festivals, reading about travels, movies, good conversations, dealing with issues of life, dreadlocks, beer, feeling, hanging out and around with people, tattoos; basically living

  • arts
  • writing
  • books
  • tattoos
  • concerts
  • music festivals
  • festivals
  • beer
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music

Music, Movies, and Books

I am a music lovers, so the taste is pretty wide, but to sum in up in a few bands and words: metal, blues, alternative, rock (Katatonia, Tool, Slayer, Pantera, Flogging Molly, Rise Against, Sixto Rodriguez, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Lamb of God, Down, AC/DC,...)

When it comes to movies, the genres are as follows: drama, war, thriller...european, american and south american, sometimes asian, but depends on a movie (Dancer in the dark, LOTR trilogy, V for Vendetta, Matrrix, DPS, Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, Trainspotting, Shutter Island, Taxi Driver, City of God, American Gangster, American History X, Laberinto del Fauno, Gruz 200, Django Unchained, Sin Nombre,...)

Books? Yes, please: to narrow it down, the autors would be Bukowski, Fante, Poe, Dostoevski, Han Suyin...with various books, such as On the Road, 1984, Master and Margaret, LoTR, Jane Eyre, El senor Presidente, Living to tell the tale, South of the Border, West of the Sun, Of heroes and tombs...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- midnight sun in Rovaniemi
- seeing music bringing people
- vocalist's speech at Rise Against concert in Bologna
- seeing Phil Anselmo live for the very 1st time

Teach, Learn, Share

heh...yeah, i can teach you some German grammar...or russian perhaps-but at very very beginner level :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain

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