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Overview

  • 9 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak; learning Croatian, French, Slovene
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Student, translator of Serbian, Slovak, Czech and Polish
  • BA in Serbian Philogy, working on: MA in history, MA in S...
  • From Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To know and see as much as possible for my own satisfaction.

ABOUT ME

It's difficult to describe myself in a few sentences. I'll try to do it. I'm interested in many things. I generally love to listen to people who know more about something than me. I'm not an artist but I enjoy going to the gallery with artists or historians of art. I consider biology as the most beautiful science. My passion is linguistics. I love literature. I love mountains, nature, drinking coffee, hang out on the bench and watch people passing by. I like to talk about serious topics. I don't like to drink too much alcohol and I drink it only occasionally. I like to speak to people in their language. I love to eat.

Slovak tel. number: +421 908 930 375
Polish tel. number: +48 798 523 196
Slovene tel. number: +386 517 100 27

PHILOSOPHY

If you won't try, you won't know.

You eat as you cook. Because of that you can make bad things better.

It's never so bad that it couldn't be worse. If it's good, it could be even better!

In small space there is still a lot of place for good people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

To know as many interesting people as I can. To show as many interesting things to the other CS members as I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only the good ones :)

Interests

I partly described it in the field "all about you". Just everything :)

  • arts
  • literature
  • cooking
  • coffee
  • walking
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • biology
  • history
  • languages
  • science
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I can read, watch and listen everything. It really depends on my mood. I like fairy tales in any form. And my favorite writers? For example - the king of qrotesque Vladimir Nabokov, master of love story - Mihail Bulgakov, the "carnaval" realist F.M.Dostojevskij, J.D.Salinger, Danilo Kiš, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Carlo Ginzburg, Slobodan Selenić

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 2008 I went to Finland and Norway to reach the edge of the Old continent. I traveled about 40 days alone... visiting towns, meeting new people, walking alone through Lapland wilderness and finally stopped at Kinnarodden. 3 years after that trip I saw a film called "Into the wild"... On that trip i found out that traveling alone isn't exactly the best choice for me. I needed somebody to share what I was doing, thinking, what did I like or what I didn't. That "happiness real when shared".

I noticed that you don't have to go far away from your hometown to see great things and to meet great people. Just look around. People are coming to your town and it's attractive for them... why it shouldn't be also for you?

Somebody told me that there are no bad people in 1500 m above sea level and higher. As for now, I can believe it.

Teach, Learn, Share

I could teach you some Slavonic languages, tell you about history of regions where I have lived. I could show you how to cook a coffee in dzhezwe. And also I could show you how I can eat a meal you prepared :D

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Oman, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Thailand, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia

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