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Overview

  • 41 references 28 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Hebrew (modern); learning German
  • 39, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • penniless social worker
  • BA social work MA anthropology student
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

no brain, no worries

ABOUT ME

all...all? about...bout,.. me?? well... all that;'s very hard, and even some depence what day you'll catch me in.. was very much in one place (here in craziley jerusalem), for many years, went out to see the world- BRB (-:
AND NOW MORE SIRIUS- very intrested in almost anything, just sit down and have a nice chat is my own favorite activity, also like to cook alot (my spaciality- vegan applecrumble yammm), and wouldn't mind at all doing meditation, dancing and so on with other people
observant jew so that is i guess another big part of what i am, and many more ((:

PHILOSOPHY

shit. what've just happened?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

couchsurfing is the best! and i had so many very significant and teaching expieriences during the last 2-3 years i cant even count

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

hosted a few, been hosted by few, went to my friend hanna's wedding in germany and we met on couchsurfing- so also met some friends for life. i met the sweetest, kindest, craziest people on my last trip throught couchsurfing and more friends for life- i feel so blessed to had this opportunity wowwww thank you the lord of couchsurfing for bringing all those great people together!!

Interests

im very interested in what you have to tell and share.
i work with aged people so in a senior home so im very interested to know where your grandparents came from (-:
i try to study has much as i can whatever i can and im interested in psychoanalysis and meditation and religions. so just come along and dont be surprised if ill ask you for some new recipes!

  • dancing
  • cooking
  • recipes
  • vegan
  • meditation
  • jewish
  • religion

Music, Movies, and Books

music: kleizmer music, jypsy music, indian music, belle and sebastian, fleetfoxes, johana newsome and some other things
movies: mike lee, charlie kaufman, the cohen brothers, movies.
books: the art of love, the history of love:
“The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people’s hands, nothing we say now that could not be said in the endless array of movements possible with the fine bones of the fingers and wrists. The gestures were complex and subtle, involving a delicacy of motion that has since been lost completely.

During the Age of Silence, people communicated more, not less. Basic survival demanded that the hands were almost never still, and so it was only during sleep (and sometimes not even then) that people were not saying something or other. No distinction was made between the gestures of language and the gestures of life. The labor of building a house, say, or preparing a meal was no less an expression than making the sign for I love you or I feel serious. When a hand was used to shield one’s face when frightened by a loud noise something was being said, and when fingers were used to pick up what someone else had dropped something was being said; and even when the hands were at rest, that, too, was saying something. Naturally, there were misunderstandings. There were times when a finger might have been lifted to scratch a nose, and if casual eye contact was made with one’s lover just then, the lover might accidentally take it to be the gesture, not at all dissimilar, for Now I realize I was wrong to love you. These mistakes were heartbreaking. And yet, because people knew how easily they could happen, because they didn’t go round with the illusion that they understood perfectly the things other people said, they were used to interrupting each other to ask if they’d understood correctly. Sometimes these misunderstandings were even desirable, since they gave people a reason to say, Forgive me, I was only scratching my nose. Of course I know I’ve always been right to love you. Because of the frequency of these mistakes, over time the gesture for asking forgiveness evolved into the simplest form. Just to open your palm was to say: Forgive me."

"If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms – if you find yourself at a loss for what to do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignness of your own body – it’s because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what’s inside and what’s outside, was so much less. It’s not that we’ve forgotten the language of gestures entirely. The habit of moving our hands while we speak is left over from it. Clapping, pointing, giving the thumbs-up, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together. And at night, when it’s too dark to see, we find it necessary to gesture on each other’s bodies to make ourselves understood.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

it always seems you have seen it all and never saw it before altogether. the ability to be corny and original at the same instant amazes me. other things that im amazed by would always revel themselves after already gone out of sight.

Teach, Learn, Share

behalte herz aus gold suchen

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel

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