CURRENT MISSION

grow! / sleep!! / raise two daughters!!!

ABOUT ME

all about joanna: eating, sleeping, drawing, making photos and exploring my city - that's what makes me happy.

all about alek: baking bread, cooking, finding things on the internet and riding my bike - that's what makes me happier than Joanna.

PHILOSOPHY

love, truth, strength.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We've hosted by now two Americans, a New Zealander, two more Americans, and two Frenchmen. And then a Belgian and two persons from Germany We've couchsurfed in Greece, Turkey, the Philippines and Mexico.

And then we took a 7 year break to raise our two daughters.

Now we want to return to the couchsurfing experience, both as guests and hosts.

Interests

cooking, photography, comic books, food, dogs, plants, herbs, gardening, vegetables, mushroom picking, movies, street art, lounging, luxury hotel design on the internet, street posters, crochet, fixing up old furniture, biking

• dogs
• arts
• culture
• books
• design
• street art
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• baking
• gardening
• movies
• crochet
• drawing
• cycling
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

six feet under, Almodovar, Spanish cinema, Kaurismaki brothers, David Bowie, Jim Jarmusch, defiance, OH, charles bukowski, murakami, banksy, morcheeba, seyzen aksu, alphaville, douglas coupland, the national, Charles Burns, Art Spiegelman, pixies, amy winehouse, sigur ros, casiotone for the painfully alone, explosions in the sky, jane jacobs.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Recently we saw a fox that hunted a bird and ran away with it - in the middle of Warsaw, 5 minutes from our house.

Teach, Learn, Share

Joanna: history of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto, mushroom picking!
Alek: alternative copyright licensing models for free culture, crochet!
Both: Korean cooking, and Polish-Korean fusion cooking as well!

What I Can Share with Hosts

We gladly cook.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Brazil, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Poland, United States

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