What I love and who am I:

- music.
Music is what I make a living through. I play double bass and am studying jazz/pop music in the Music academy in Stuttgart, Germany. I also work in a jazz club, selling tickets and as a booker for our student concert nights.

- languages.
Learning languages is something I invested a lot of joy, time, energy and passion in. Except for my mother tongue, Bulgarian, which allows me to understand most of the slavic languages, I speak fluently English, Spanish and German. But the list goes on with other european languages I have learned at some point and to a different level...

- people.
Both music and languages have always allowed me to come closer to people, get to know them and understand them and also show them who I am and how I feel and understand life. It has never been school that taught me about life. It has been the people.

My free time:

- wherever I go, I will always find a way to contact the musicians and play with them. Either it be a jam session in a bar or just a get together in the music academy.

- as much as I enjoy spending time with people, I also like to be alone, walk, explore and experience new places.

- when I'm free you'll find me either with a language book, or listening to music, or spontaneously hitchhiking with a friend, or maybe meditating, or watching anything that has to do with comedy or science fiction.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I used to meet a lot of travellers while I still lived in Bulgaria and I also hosted a couple of them.

Interests

More about my interests hmm...

To jazz I add: I love baroque music and would love to learn viola da gamba.

I love dancing. Lindy hop, Boogie-woogie..

I love jigsaw puzzles. They are my philosophy.

I occasionally write letters.

• singing
• dancing
• socializing
• puzzles
• music
• jazz
• sports
• tennis
• table tennis
• badminton
• teaching
• languages
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: 12th-19th and part of 20th-21st century classical music, jazz, rock, swing, blues, folk...
Renaud Garcia-Fons, Queen, Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, George Benson, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, Citizen Cope, Jeff Buckley, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Mono, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Rubel, Peruvian folk music

The movies I like are the sort of ones that you feel that don't finish, but continue in you. Let's say Jack, Patch Adams (Robin Williams is a favorite of mine!), The Fountain, Inception, K-Pax... Legend of 1900(!), The pianist, the series of Lie to me (Tim Roth - another fave!) and House... Fight club, The Sixth Sense, Pay it forward, Bicentennial man, Artificial intelligence, Swing Kids, The curious case of Bengamin Button, Amelia (by Edouard Locke), Amelie...
More: Taare Zameen Par, 3 idiots, Dead Poets Society, Defending Your Life, Lost in Translation, The Fountain, Stranger that Fiction, Mr. Nobody, Cloud Atlas, Waking Ned Devine...
Update: Interstellar, Arrival

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, France, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bulgaria, Germany, South Africa

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