If you'd like to be hosted, please read carefully my profile and "My Home" section.

Hello! My name is Zofia, I'm a student from Poland. Apart from studying and trying to survive, I try to find any possible occasions to add magic to my daily routine. I find it in movies, books, art, languages; but most importantly - in other people, who inspire me and show me new places, perspectives and ways of living.

I feel fully free when I am travelling and meeting people, landscapes and art of places unknown to me before. Long conversations with strangers (but when you do have them, they're becoming less and less of strangers, haha) have been always very fruitful in my life and I wish to have more of them - and there is no place better than Couchsurfing to pursue this dream.

I've used Couchsurfing as a guest quite many times and I'm planning to continue, but as I finally have someplace to host as well - I'd also love to share this limited space with some travellers who decide to explore Warsaw. As I am quite busy studying two majors, I cannot, unfortunately, host too often - therefore it's also important for me that people who I host share my vibe, interests and admiration for art - please, write a personal request and tell me why you think we'd get along well.

With my roommate, we organize a lot of stuff - poetry evenings, themed parties, movie screenings, we "put out" a small absurdist, performative newspaper.

I live in absurdity, chaos and art.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am extremely interested in human beings and I consider travelling one of the most beautiful forms of discovering them! The act of travelling is even more beautiful than usual when you can meet someone local and see some less popular places.

Interests

• literature
• poetry
• politics
• movies
• music
• international relations
• languages
• law
• art
• travelling
• theatre
• cinemas
• art galleries
• russian literature
• snail mail
• art cinema
• prison systems
• genocides

Music, Movies, and Books

I am a fan of arts of any kind, always open to recommendations and always ready to recommend!

music: folk, sung poetry; Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Sixto Rodriguez, Facundo Cabral, Buena Vista Social Club; a lot of Russian and Polish music (Kaczmarski, Kult, Strachy na Lachy, Vysotsky, Кино, the Analogs)

movies: Alejandro Jodorovsky, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Aki Kaurismaki, Józef Antonisz, Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche New York is probably my favourite movie), David Lynch, Emir Kusturica, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Andrei Tarkovsky, Pedro Almodovar, Roy Andersson, Wes Anderson, Béla Tarr, Leos Carax

literature: Dostoyevsky, Camus, Bulgakov, Chekhov, Wilde, Murakami, Hesse, Kundera, Krasznahorkai, Durrenmatt, Paul Auster, non-fiction literature

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

moved to France alone not knowing French:))

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can teach you some funny phrases in Polish (I am a master in tongue twisters!). I can share stories, cultural recommendations, maybe cook something:) Bring Polish vodka!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Poland