My name is Anna. For me it is one of the most beautiful names in the world. I originally come from Latvia (it is a small country located next to Russia, under Finland. It's one of the Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) but I am a traveler. When I was little I lived a year in Sweden with my parents, spent one year in Mexico - the most amazing year of my life, I could talk about it for hours, and also spent a few years working in Luxembourg and now I am in London.

I am an open minded, friendly, caring and smiling. I smile like all the time. I guess if you would ask anyone, they would tell you that. I think I am a people person, if it is called like that. I can go up to pretty much anybody and start talking to them. Like, on my last holiday in September I just went up to one guy who was a painter and we talked for about five hours about art, travelling and meaning of life. This example pretty much says it all, I guess.

Finally, I am a normal girl (at least I think so) who likes normal things and well... there is nothing ''wow'' about me. ;) Ohh..but I am also extremely chatty - I LOVE to talk.

PHILOSOPHY

I still haven't come up with my life philosophy but basically it would be something like - live and enjoy the beauty of life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Currently I participate as a surfer but hope to one day host people again. I feel like I can't just surf other people couches,as I find this couchsurfing thing as a giving and receiving thing. So both.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I don't have much experience,I have almost hosted few people,surfed myself once and that's all. But I want to build my experience level!

Interests

About my interests.. I have so many of them. I will list few of them.

PENGUINS-I love,adore and just find penguins incredibly cute and amazing! They somehow inspire me. :)

Cultures - I've lived in different countries and I learned to know different cultures and that's when I fell in love with them. Seriously, there are so many different cultures and mentalities that is astonishes me, I would love to get to know all of them, but I guess - life is too short.

Music - on that one later, but I can't do anything without music.

Literature - I like to see how the literature has changed through the years and I love to read. Not only the new novels but also old one's.

Travelling - I guess this one goes together with cultures. ;)

Project365 - This is something I really, really want to do. And finally I will once accomplish that. But it will be the one year I will travel a lot and try to see different things, so my project-365 is complete and beautiful.

• arts
• literature
• beauty
• traveling
• painting
• music
• genealogy

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: A Man Without A Country, Three Comrades, Small Prince, Memoieres de la Rose, Dandelion Wine, 1984, Catcher In The Rye, Shakespear's work, A Child Called It

Movies: Happy Feet, Wall-e, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Notebook, Sweeney Todd, Into The Wild, Cruel Intentions, Benny and Joon, Across the Universe, 10 things I Hate About You, Sex and The City, Pay It Forward, Forest Gump, My Life In Ruins, Sixth Sense, House Of Spirits, Green Mile, Grease, Silence of the Lambs, Mister Popper's Penguins

Music: Coldplay, Dido, Frank Sinatra, Joe Cocker, The Beatles, Mando Diao, Norah Jones, Mika, Nirvana, Queen, Aerosmith, Robbie Williams, Michael Bublé, 50ties-80ties

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Only one? I guess it would be my year in Mexico - a really life changing thing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, United Kingdom