Hello. I'm a student from Latvia nowadays staying in Kocaeli for summer holiday, ı'm 22 years old. I love to travel and meet people from different countries and people who travel a lot!!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Have surfed when travelling around Europe as much as possible, hosted a lot while living in Turkey for 10 years, now much less since not so many people know there are other places in Turkey apart from the capital- Kocaeli or İstanbul :P

Interests

trees, tea, pottery, books, beautiful living, rain on a summers day, vegetarian, my imaginary cat, things with history, rivers, cooking and non-cooking, gingerbread men, train is my older brother, yellow sky in the nightly İstanbul, sustainable living, , my bike, shy smiles, yoga, flower meadows, mist, birdpeople, photography, baskets, orchards, moss, permaculture, gardening, folk dancing

• cats
• books
• photography
• dancing
• folk dancing
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• gardening
• flowers
• traveling
• socializing
• pottery
• knitting
• music
• cycling
• history
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

ounds of nature, David Darling, The Tallest Man on Earth, Regina Spektor, Andrew Bird, Beirut, Kimya Dawson, Beans on Toast, Fever Ray, Fleet Foxes, Bob Marley, Sigur Ros, Edit Piaf, Ludovico Einaudi, Placebo, Caravan Palace, Bjork, Adele, Goran Gora, Prata Vetra, Astro'n'out, etc etc

Films: Everything is Illuminated, Micmacs, The city of lost children, Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Jeux d'Enfants, A Very Long Engagement, Forrest Gump, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Edward Scissorhands, V for Vendetta, Ratatouille, Ice Age

Edmunds Rudzits, Silvana de Mari, Paolo Coelju, Imants Ziedonis, John Wyndham, Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", Theodore Zeldin "An Intimate History of Humanity", Okakuro Kakuza "The Book of Tea" :) etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was in an endless dandelion field!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to knit pretty patterns
and make dreamcathers
and make pots
and make pink soup
and anything else I know that you would like to know as well!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share lots of things like a folks,music,history etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

Latvia, Malta