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Overview

  • 8 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Polish; learning Italian, Russian
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • I work, study, and volunteer
  • bachelor degree in International Relations
  • From Toruń
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To learn Italian, figure skating and finish master studies in international relations

ABOUT ME

I'm accident-prone - not always learn from it but always meet great people on my way :)

I laugh often and speak a lot but I also know when it's time to be serious and don't say anything.

I study international relations in a beautful gothic town Torun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmB3vsnLWUQ) and from September 2012 till February 2013 I'm on Erasmus program in Siena studying economics and international relations.

I'm energetic person and I try to be creative. I often work as a voluteer in different projects in Poland and abroad.

I'm also very active student, so I've already organised and participated in scientific conferences, cultural events and United Nations Models(simulations).

I love meeting new people - talking, listening and discussing many different topics with them and progressively fighting with my stereotypes - I'm an optimistic person because I was lucky to meet a lot of incredible people in my life.

I like hitch-hiking - I've been travelling this way across Balcans and Poland. I also like riding bike and in the future I would love to go for some organised and long trips.

My big love are languages. I speak Polish, English and Russian. Now I want to improve my Italian skills.

PHILOSOPHY

Fallow the elephant

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I try :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was hosting couchsurfers when doing my European Voluntary Service in Macedonia, Bitola.

Interests

People, languages,post-Soviet coutries - history, culture and politics, international relations, hitch-hiking, reading books.

  • culture
  • books
  • dancing
  • politics
  • reading
  • traveling
  • knitting
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • economics
  • history
  • international relations
  • languages
  • study abroad
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: everything with Audrey Hepburn; Amelia, Rusalka, Chelovek idyot za solntsem, American Beauty, Love Actually, Donnie Darko, La vita è bella, La tigre e la neve, Inception, Leon, 127 Hours, The Ugly Truth, Closer, Blood Diamond, Crazy Stupid Love, He's Just Not That Into You, Garden State,

Music: Florence & the Machine, Thomas Newman, Mina Mazzini, Lorenzo Jovanotti, Michael Jackson, Death Cab for Cutie, Bat for Lashes, Bjork, Tori Amos, Julia Marcell, Roisin Murphy, Zero 7, Imogen Heap, I Blame Coco, Maria Mena, Anna Maria Jopek, Edyta Geppert, Monika Brodka, Feist, Regina Spektor,Phoenix, Ellie Goulding, Emilíana Torrini, 7B, 5'nizza, Smyslovye Gallyucinacii, DDT, Adele, Kings of Leon, Phil Collins

Books: Everything of Joanna Chmielewska, Andrzej Sapkowski, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Ewa Bialolecka, PH series, Dead Poets Society, Earthsea, Jane Eyre, The Plague,Lord of the Flies, Green Hills of Africa, Catcher in the Rye, The Hobbit or There and Back Again, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dead souls, Master and Margarita, Chronicles of Narnia,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sundown in Prizren just before I fell with my head on the rock, dreadfully hot Siberian railway, Muslim prayer heard from 5th floor's balcony, Bitola's night view from old american planes

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach basic knit,belly dance, some Polish songs,
Love to learn other languages.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Kosovo, Lithuania, Montenegro, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Poland

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