CURRENT MISSION

Hitch-hike the world until it dies!

ABOUT ME

I am rather silent, bit of an introvert. I do like to debate and argue, as long as it's done peacefully and without ad personam arguements.
Of course, apart from debating I do not mind beer ( and if you want beer, Poznań is the place to be), literature and hitching.

If you want my story, here it comes: I lived most of my life and grew up on the suburbs of Poznan. I decided to study finnish philology in this town but dropped out after the first term, I guess it just wasn't my thing. I moved out, went to Denmark to study economics there. After finishing my bachelor's I came back to my hometown for a short break from studying and I am happily working for a big corporation with a gargantuous dollar sign on top of it.

PHILOSOPHY

Keep distance to everything you face. Never lose hope and never have high hopes, be stoical,try to get wisdom.
Laugh a lot but never too loud.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I mostly host, surfing occasionally

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I really love both hosting and surfing but I'm always pretty unlucky with my searches. I already hosted approx. 50 people, unfortunatelly it doesn't really pay off when it comes to surfing. Sending loads of requests never really helps. Maybe being a male is not the best idea when it comes to CS.

Surfed in: Stockholm (SE), Oslo , Bergen (NO), Arnis (D), Kyiv (UA), Penrith (UK), Reykjavik, Bifrost, Westman Islands, Keflavik (IS).
Hosted people from: Argentina, Poland, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany, USA, Greece, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Morocco, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia, Ukraine.

Interests

I'm pretty much interested in everything, maybe music is one of the things I don't really care about, if it's not Cohen, Dylan, old rock or classical.
There are two things I'm fixated about, films and travelling.
When I travel I try to explore the opportunities as much as I can with the lowest budget possible, that means hitch-hiking and staying in the tent. My favourite destinations are the balkans and even though I've been there three times for a month I still think I have no clue about that place. The next destination is Scandinavia for me.
I also like languages but I always give up too early, already tried : english, german, finnish, norwegian, danish. I always try to learn slavic languages empirically.

• literature
• beer
• movies
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• surfing
• economics
• languages
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
My music taste is very close. Love oldies and singing poetry.
Movies: Petr Zelenka, Pasikowski, Aki Kaurismaki, Ingmar Bergman, Emir Kusturica, Quentin Tarantino, Francois Ozon, J.L Goddard, Zvyagintsev,tarkovski, Susanne Bier, L.v.Trier, Kim ki Duk
Generally I prefer new films to the old ones and europeans to americans. Scandinavians, Russians and Czechs are for me by far the best.
Books : Kurt Vonnegut, Kerouac, Dostoevsky, Marek Hłasko, Witold Gombrowicz, Douglas Coupland, Hrabal, Mo Yan, Jaroslav Hasek, Haruki Murakami, Jack Kerouac, Umberto Eco. Tolstoy, Houellebecq, Miodrag Bulatovic, Stasiuk
Apart of them I try to read every influencial or anyhow important book which is not a bestseller and was written in XXth century.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I survived the hospitality of Georgians and Armenians and did not end up as an alcoholic!

Teach, Learn, Share

Puns! Some claim that I'm a bad joke sensei.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Denmark, Germany, Poland

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