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Overview

  • 35 references 27 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Estonian, German; learning French, Russian, Spanish
  • 33, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Volunteer
  • BA (Hons) Photography
  • From Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Maybe one day we´ll find the place where our dreams and reality collide.

ABOUT ME

I am a photographer from Tartu, Estonia. I did a short period of art studies in Denmark, an Erasmus year in Portugal and finished my BA studies in the UK. I try to travel as much as I can, it is important for me to move and explore. I am a really curious person therefore enjoy meeting people and dicovering different places to understand this world a little better, to learn from others and to grow closer to myself and others.

PHILOSOPHY

"It was all unknown to me then, as I sat on that white bench on the day I finished my hike. Everything except the fact that I didn't have to know. That is was enough to trust that what I'd done was true. To understand its meaning without yet being able to say precisely what it was, like all those lines from The Dream of a Common Language that had run through my nights and days. To believe that I didn't need to reach with my bare hands anymore. To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life - like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.” Cheryl Strayed

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have been hosting people all around the world always when I´ve had a chance, but I travel more then I'm settled in one place to host. Experience has always been really positive!

Interests

  • arts
  • books
  • singing
  • photography
  • festivals
  • dancing
  • environment
  • dining
  • cooking
  • movies
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • hiking
  • skiing
  • history
  • psychology
  • sociology
  • beaches
  • veganism
  • documentary films

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

If it had to be one then deciding to "take just a year off" after high school studies because this lead me to life of a traveler of uncountable amazing things I have done!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am passionate about different arts and cultural backgrounds, languages and history, music and cinema, philosophy and religious views, environment and veganism, sociology and education - a good conversation (with relaxed atmosphere and delicious food) where both sides can take something new with them is my main goal to share with my hosts/guests.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Panama, Peru, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Denmark, Estonia, Guernsey, Portugal, United Kingdom

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