Born in little country inhabited by only 1.8 million people - LATVIA. I have graduated as a professional journalist but haven't used my degree in a classical form of being one. I have worked for 2 years as a youth leader at the youth centre in a very small town and have always loved to help sustain and maintain community feeling around our little town.

Currently: searching for inner peace and trying to learn how to "let go" and "take it easy" (as for me it has always been a little bit too hard to take it easy).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I felt the urge to start an adventure. It started out with a sudden realization that I don't want to follow a path that is so common and so welcomed in our society, to graduate from university, to find a job, to fall in love, and to settle down. I have graduated from an university, I had a wonderful job for 2 years, but I wasn't ready to settle down (and also that par about falling in love didn't work out quite well). So I left my position at the youth centre and decided to go to U.S. for 82 days.

I wan to meet new people and to find more about the world through their viewpoints. I like to collect stories and other people experiences, and would love to use these stories as a inspiration and motive for my "traveling stories" as a side project for my little adventure.

Interests

Listening to other people's stories
Long and peaceful breakfast
Reading
Drinking tea
Playing a piano or guitar
Taking pictures
Cats
Longer walks into the nature
Graphic design
Community building processes
DIY project and crafting

• cats
• design
• graphic design
• diy
• dining
• breakfast
• working out
• drinking
• crafts
• reading
• traveling
• guitar
• piano
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: (changes over a given time period)

Sleeping at last
MONO
Ben Howard
Explosions in the Sky
Kings of Convenience
Mogwai
Olafur Arnalds

Books: (I love to read, and somehow i find children literature quite fascinating. It doesn't mean that I don't read an adult literature time to time, but I really enjoy and would recommend for every one to read The Moomin - the most healthiest philosophy of live I have ever met)

The Moomin by Toove Jansson
Several detective novels
The Orange girl and other books written by Jostein Gaarder
Harry Potter (J.K.Rowling)
Last Elf and Last Orc by Silvana de Mari
The Book thief by Markus Zusak
Anne Frank by Anne Frank
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Movies:
They come and go, but there are few that have stayed

Amelie
He is not that into you
Hayao Miyazaki created animations

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I left my job that I really loved, because I was very close to burning out and I started to take care of myself more. I think of that as a very brave thing to do.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach how to play piano, or how to look at things from different perspective. I would love to do some crafts together and to encourage people to be more and appreciate small things in our lives.

I would like to learn how to "let go" and how to "take it easy", because for me it hasn't been that easy to take it easy.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my thoughts, my ideas, my understanding of things and life. I can share food, a room and I can be a company for everyone in need. I can provide hosts with smiles and laughter, some musical tunes if necessary.

Countries I’ve Visited

Estonia, Finland, France, Lithuania, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, Tunisia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Latvia, Sweden, United States