CURRENT MISSION

moose on the loose (but at home) - opening up to a new year

ABOUT ME

a bit crrrazy moose-loving married couple. love spending evenings on our tiny bacony sipping tea, coffee or wine...
We're working or studying quite a lot, but if there's an evening off we like staying in, watch films or read books. We're not really party animals but enjoy good fun every now and again :)
We're interested in languages and foreign cultures.
We love meeting new people and talking, but we're not into really big crowds. We like wandering about the city, feeling the atmosphere of the place, understanding it better...

PHILOSOPHY

trying to stop worrying about tomorrow and letting go.
declutter and simplify.
breathe in and hold. smile.
be open to others.
restore trust in and among people. even if it sounds naive ;)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We're only beginning - but we think it's great to open your house to other people!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Not much yet - we've been hosting CS-ers since September 2010 and usually once a month someone knocks on our door. So far we've hosted 10 people.
We've also surfed couches in the UK and France.
And outside the programme: there's been a number of other memorable couches :)

Interests

travelling, meeting new people...
3M = moose, mountains and music.
3C = crime stories, cryptic crosswords and Carcassonne (board game)
languages and cultures
philosophy and psychology

Filip's a bit of a computer geek and Anna's crazy about new teaching techniques for young children :)
Every now and again we take up a new kind of hobby or get hyped up about something. While dating we met halfway in a small town whose name translates as Moose Town. From that moment on we've gone slightly crazy about moose ;) We spent our honeymoon in Biebrza National Park (Poland) and saw a moose for real. Now we want to go to Sweden and Norway :)
We like taking photographs and dream of the moment when we could devote some more time to it.
We read quite a lot and are a bit mad about buying books. Especially in English :)
Filip likes discovering new music groups, even quite eccentric ones (Anna's not that into it but stays open to new flavours of sound ;)).
Filip's an open source and Linux convert ;) but doesn't lose his temper with Windows believers ;).
And we both love notebooks, notepads and other stationery accessoires ;) Yes, we know, it's probably treatable and we've been consulting a specialist ;)
Filip's just taken up running and Anna's a yoga practioner (although not very regular).
If there's something interesting, we'll probably get hooked...

• animals
• books
• design
• cooking
• wine
• coffee
• yoga
• marathon
• running
• partying
• movies
• traveling
• music
• piano
• trumpet
• languages
• psychology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

We love all kinds of books and music and films. There are several authors or musicians or directors or actors that we really admire or simply enjoy reading/watching, e.g. John Coltrane, Sting, Tomasz Stanko, Anouar Brahem, Warsaw Village Band, Kroke, Marillion, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, Kenny Burrell, Pat Metheny, Manu Katche, Stephen Fry, Sean Penn, Matt Damon, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Robbie Coltrane, James Nesbitt, Julia Roberts, Judy Dench, Woody Allen, Penelope Cruz, Hugh Laurie, John Cleese, Jean Reno, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Sophie Marceau, Marion Cotillard and many others...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

visited 23 states (10.2%)Create your own visited map of The World
seen moose on the loose, India, China and Taiwan
played in a Chinese docudrama
hiked in the Tatras in winter (through the avalanche snow)
sunrise in the mountains

Teach, Learn, Share

take better photographs, cook better, run a marathon, play a musical instrument (saxophone, trumpet, piano...), design webpages, write stories

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Slovakia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Poland, Taiwan, United Kingdom

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