CURRENT MISSION

to visit the Diane Arbus exhibition in Berlin

ABOUT ME

I'm a bit of a happy cosmopolitan. I've lived in the United States for 14 years, and Bosnia and Croatia before that, and now I'm back in Croatia. I study literature. And, no, I don't know what I'll do with my life when I finish my studies. For now, I read a lot, drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, dream about having a cat named Pickle, hang out on the terrace with my friends from Zagreb.

PHILOSOPHY

happily existential

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've hosted and surfed only a few times. I'm a bit awkward and shy, but then I get over it, surprisingly quickly. I guess it's nice to experience places from a "local" perspective. Currently, I have an apartment in Zagreb and I'll probably start hosting, in the fall, when I get back from vacation.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Sporadic. But mostly positive.

Interests

literature, cities, cultivating laziness, reading the new yorker, watching funny cat videos and finding funny cat-related stuff on the web, NPR podcasts (Radiolab and This American Life, Freakonomics), queer stuff, flea markets, terraces

• cats
• literature
• cooking
• coffee
• vegetarian
• drinking
• reading
• podcasts

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: WR: Mysteries of an Organism; Synecdoche, New York; Cache; Play Time; Man with a Movie Camera; Wings of Desire; Aguirre, Wrath of God; Moonrise Kingdom and others;
Books: museum of unconditional surrender; jimmy corrigan, the smartest kid on earth; rilke's book of images; JD salinger's nine stories; sebald's the rings of saturn, wrinkle in time, harriet the spy etc.
Music: 80s punk and new wave (especially with a queer/feminist bent), contemporary indie and classical, ambient and electronic, if good, early patty smith, above all...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

a giraffe

Teach, Learn, Share

I taught Russian at the university for a year, and could teach BCS (Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian.) I can cook a sickening vegetarian meal, and make a Turkish coffee that's black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Serbia, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Croatia, United States

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