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  • Fluent in English, Polish; learning French, Portuguese
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Ex-freelancer booktranslator, translators' coordinator in...
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  • From Pruszkow
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About Me

ABOUT ME

I am a kind and easy going person. :)

PHILOSOPHY

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

—Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Though I used to travel quite a lot I have never used Couch surfing before because I always tried to visit already known friends. Anyway, CF gives an opportunity to find friends in totaly new places .

Interests

Right now I work for the movie translating company but I miss a bit my last occupation when I was a translator myself. I am a musician, dancer and a dancing teacher. I a coordinator of most of the "European" folk dancing events in Warsaw, which the most important for me are weekly dancing events, called from French bal folks. I play diatonic accordion for dance and occasional concerts.
Beside that I love reading, especially history and fantasy books.

  • books
  • concerts
  • festivals
  • dancing
  • folk dancing
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • teaching
  • history
  • languages

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I used to hitch hike every summer so there were lot of awsome moments. Once I unexpectedly I was "forced" to stay for a night in the middle of Swiss Alps surrounded by glaciers, montain creek and veeery deep gulf couple of meters from my tent. And the storm was coming...
There was alse lot of great moments of the folk festivals I was visiting all over Western urope. Nights and days full of dance, music and barely no sleeping at all. One can imagine after a week of such people are never the same again ;)

Teach, Learn, Share

Dancing, for sure. Many kinds of european dances from France, Poland, Portugal many other places.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Poland

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