CURRENT MISSION

Explore the world, enjoy every day of your life, live your dreams and do sth to make a world a better place for all!

ABOUT ME

I am a 30 years old resident of neurology from Slovenia. I am an open minded, calm, peaceful, friendly person who like meeting new people (specially from different cultures), travelling, trying out new and undiscovered things, partying, dancing, playing or looking after kids... I am very sportive person and I like all kind of sports( specially running, cycling, swimming, hiking, skiing and all kind of adrenalin sports, specially diving and skydiving)... Currently I am more devote to running since I am preparing for the New York marathon I qualified on last year. Actually I just started with preparations after few months off due to my knee injury that I got in skytunnel during skydiving training. Last year I run The Authentic Athens marathon which was my child dream (and I was 28. out of 35 000 whic was a surprising result for me since i had not been training befor that, i just loved to run and i finnaly found time to get few days off and travel to Athens)! People say that I am very hyperactive person as I always do many things at the same time and am always running from one thing to another. But on the other hand I am phlegmatic person who don`t worry about things until the last moment and am quite spontaneous.I am a bit workaholic sometimes. I have been working on many volunteer public health project during whole 7 years of medical study, that fights against cardiovascular diseases, sexual transmitted diseases, drugs, smoking, project that motivate people for healthy life style... I have organized many social events for students in Slovenia, events for children to better spend their free time, I was also a student buddy to international students in Ljubljana occasionally ...Besides my study I was a researcher (area of neuro-cardio-physiology), have been spending lot of time during last years on it and besides medicine, I was taking some courses at the Faculty of sport. I trained athletic ( long distance running) when I was in high school and I am still in loved with running, cannot spend a day without it. I have been learning some foreign languages (Swedish, French and Spanish) and sign language (language for deft people). I have also been volunteering a lot in hospitals and assisting in all kind of surgery operations. But no matter of my occupations I am always up for parting if there is something good going on. I am used to share apartments with others. I am more like a night person, used to study or work at night and sleep in the morning, but am very flexible about that, have no real biorhythm, every day is different (I can also stand up at 6 or even earlier if I have to or sometimes don`t go to sleep at all and have no problems after that). I don`t smoke but it doesn´t bother me if people around me smoke (except that i advise against as i am actually in campaign that fights against smoking) . I was on Erasmus exchange for half a year 2009/2010 at Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Göteborg (Sweden), taking courses of family medicine and in the same time doing an research in the fields of genetic. While in Slovenia I occasionally worked for last few years as a surgeon assistant in different surgery departments in Novo mesto general hospital. 2011 I graduated and then went for 3 months on voluntary humanitarian medical expedition to Uganda where I worked in an outpatient clinic providing basic medical care for people. Next year I did similar work in Papua New Guinea, were with 3 friends of mine we run and worked in some referral provincial general and maternity hospital in Pimaga, Southeren Highlands. In between I finished my residency of a doctor and started specializing neurology and am currently eroled in 3th year. This year I am finishing my Phd thesis about new ultrasound paramethers and cerebral hemodynamic properties in patients with vascular dementia. Last few years were tough for me since I have been doing Phd in my free time, besides at least 10 hours (on avarage ) of daily work as a neurologist mostly at emergancy departments with changing tournuses... so more or less I was all the time on the our clinic ( besides 10-12 hours of working I was spending additional few hours on my phd research and studing),.. the only time for myself was 2 hours daily spend on running and a free weekend from time to time spend on running more (I train marathon) or on diving in Croatian sea or skydiving near my home town or different family and friends meeting.

PHILOSOPHY
Life begins at the end of your confort zone!

I like the life and would like to live it to the fullest, I know how short it can be and how suddenly can be finished so I want to take advantage of everyday the best as possible! I also want to grow as a person, to learn more, to experience more, to understand other people and culture more and help them somehow if possible! I would like to be proud on myself when I die ,with knowing that my live was not for nothing, that was worth to live it, that i have done sth that helped other people to live it better. I also like having feeling of being alive, so that is why i sometimes like taking a risk,like adrenalin, like sports,like to feel breathless and I do not prefer the easiest ways, as I think that the harder that the way is the stronger you become after dealing with it and more happy and proud at the end!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because I can meet open minded and great people from different part of the world,learn a lot from them and have a great times with them!
Because I dont like turictic traveling but prefer to experiance the places I travel troug by the lokals
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Interests

medicine, medical science, neurology, public health projects, volunteering
sports: running, sky diving, scuba diving, orienteering, mountain hiking, hiking, climbing, cycling, swimming, skiing, water adrenalin sports, basketball (just watching)
traveling
meeting new interesting people
parting
dancing
playing with children or teaching them,
talking with people, having all kind of conversations,socializing
trying new things

• animals
• dogs
• culture
• dancing
• marathon
• running
• walking
• partying
• traveling
• house work
• socializing
• cycling
• hiking
• kayaking
• scuba diving
• sailing
• skydiving
• skiing
• sports
• basketball
• rock climbing
• track and field
• swimming
• rowing
• languages
• medicine
• science
• sign language
• study abroad
• volunteering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Tina Turner, Roxette, The killers, Siddharta (slovenian rok group), U2, Whitney Houston, Vlado Kreslin (slovenian singer), Queen, Pink, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Madonna, Rolling Stones, Beetles, Zoran Predin (slovenian singer), Novi Fosili (croatian group)

LA vita e bella, Godfather, Schindler' s list,Dirty dancing :), Lord of the ringers triology, Forest Gump, Gladiator, Star wars, Closer, Garden State, The duchess, Taken, The Butterfly Effect, Into the wild, The Truman Show,Borat, City of god, Control, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, The proposal, Insite, Eat,pray,love , Imitation games, Beautiful mind, Birdman

Books: Little Prince, Lord of the ring trilogy, Alkimist, Alamut, Bloddy river, On the road, Gorillas in the mist

Tv series (but i don't watch television much): Friends, Dr. House.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Living 3 months in some remote village-Pimaga in the jungle, Southeren highlands of Papua New Guinea, mostly without electricity and running water, without internet access and mobile phone in the time of elections were the place was consider as very dangerous and locals were afraid to walk around and if anything would happened noone would rescue us (we signed a contract saying we are aware of dangerous and they wont help us in case of political rivals). Running some small general and maternity hospital that was without doctors and in pretty bad sanitary condition with just little basic equipment and bad medicines supply...dealing with many problems, cases and diseases that are not known to the civilized developed world, worked as general doctor providing free basic medical care for locals in an outpatient clinic and part of the time in the hospital as an internist, infectolog, surgeon, paediatrician and obstetrician...the most stressful were baby deliveries and serious injuries ( some also because of political fights). But the place was amazingly beautiful, like paradise, very peaceful, diverse,green and completely nonturistic and people were very kind, friendly and generous!!!
-climbing Mt Kenya (5100m above sea)in one day up and down without stopping-partly running, amaizing landscape-changing very quickly with the altitude.
-climbing to some volcano in Bolivia in one day from 4000-6100 m above sea in the wind storm at temerature about -20
-climbing in Serrata mountains in Bolivia in one day from 2000-5400 meters above sea, getting altitude sicknes, but eventhowgh was worth since was very beautiful
-climbing active Villarrica vulcano (Chile) few weaks befor the eruption
-trip acros Chilian and Argentinian Patagonia (one of the mots beautiful places I have ever seen)
-Trip across Southeren desert in Bolivia with a car from Tupisa to Salt desert (Salar de Uyuni), amazing landscape!!! In Tupisa also horse riding to some mountains and deserts.
-Trip along Inkas ruins in Peru finishing at Matchu Pitchu-very inetersing and unforgettable
-sailing lake Titicaca and living with some family at one of the irelands
-Trip to the nortern parts of Sweden and from Kiruna with dog sladge in desert to some Lapanes village people to watch northern light. Temperature around -35 degrees celsius, windy, but evetnow one of the most amaizing unforgettable experiance- specially the northeren light!!!
-Diving in Zanzibar and surrunding area, very diverse sea life!!!Also Zanzibar alone is very beautiful and kindly city!
-Mountains Gorrilas trecking and trecking trough rainforest to some volcanos in SW Uganda-Virunga range, Very nice amaizing landscape and animals
-Whales watching and Fraser Ireland visit near Harvey Bay Australia
-Rafting at White Nile river near the source of The Nile in Jinga, Uganda. Very adrenalinic but unforgetable experiance
-safary treck to klimbing lions in Quine Elisabeth natural park and Nairobi Natural Park: stadnig just few meters from lions, observing them! Also seen others wilde animals in their natural habitants like rinos, crocodiles, hippos, gepard, cheetah, leopard, elephants,zebras, giraffes,buffalos, gazelles, Hyenas , different kind of monkeys,wardhoges...
-Living 3 months in some remote village-Bufuka,Uganda, along the lake Bunyonyi, without electricity and running water, toilets, using lake for sowering, slipping and working in a small mud house working as a general doctor treating local people for free. But the place was very amaizingly beautiful, like paradise, very peaceful, diverse,green, lake perfect for swimming and rowing..and nights sky vere so full of stars!!!
-Gisenyi and Kivu lake at Rwanda-congo board, amaizingly tidy and well organized city, also very beautiful, when beeing there some nearby volcano start erupting and vise nice viewed at nights.
-Kigali genocide memorial center in Ruanda, very sad place and photos realy from genocide realy shocked me
-Boluba hospital near Jinga along the lake Victoria, very nice peacefull and kind place vith amaizing landscape, monkey playing with you on your yard, but most interesting for me was seeing and talking with lepra patiens since the disease is almost extinct in developed world
-got lost alone in favela in Rio de Janeiro during the night and meeting crazy people there, walking 8 hours to get out of it.
-watching sunrise at Praya de naturalista at Pipe and swimming with dolphins there ( state Paraiba, north east of Brazil), really amazing and then watching
Federal highlights in the night with my friends
-standing at Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, amazing view on whole Rio
-running alone at 5 ocl in the morning in an devastated Indian reservation (like a desert with maybe few abandoned houses) somewhere in Arizona, trying to catch the sun rise (was amazing) and then hit the ground and broke my ripe...without anyone to help me, lying for a wile on the cold stones and then somehow slowly walking to motel we were staying in
-climbing (hiking) down and up the Great Canyon in Arizona
- Staying at Dead horse point somewhere in Utah national park Canyonlands ( amaizing desert and observing the natural work of Colorado river)and watching the sun set
- visiting natural park Monument Valley in Utah/Arizona board and watching the sunset there with my friends
- hiking in Bryce Canyon, Utah
-climbing our Slovenian highest mountain Triglav (2860m, very rocky, with a lot of sharp stones ) and while going down loosing one shoes, and jumping down with one foot.
-getting lost in the night in some desert in Arizona with my friends because we wanted to take a shorter way which went trough Indian reservation with no roads, just a small track then then suddenly disappeared and our GPS had no idea where we were...
- diving at coral reefs in the Red see
-hiking up the Sinai mountain in the night and then
watching the sunrise from the top in the morning
- visiting tombs in Egypt, valley of king and queens near Luxor, and walking in monument complexes at Karnak
- sailing down the river Nile from Aswan in the night, stopping in the nonturistic Nubian village and meeting locals from there
-trip to Siwa oases in Egypt with camels trough the Sahara desert
-assisting at many heart transplantations and artificial pumps implantation operations at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Texas medical center (the largest and best complex of hospitals in the world), talking and doing morning visits with dr Cooley who Performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States and became the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart and has performed more than 100,000 operations—more than any one else in the world.
-organized -lead three huge voluntary public healths events around the same time being so busy with them that were not able to catch more then 3h sleeping per night for almost three months, had no time to eat and were all the time on telephone...it was amazing that i kept and managed it all at the and...but would never do anything similar
-get third price at Saskatoon science fear in Canada (with more than 350 participations )with my high school research work, were even amazing that i had been accepted to this fear at all and was my firs travel alone trough an ocean at the age of 16 without knowing anyone there.
-run half marathon in 1h an 29 minutes after a terrible start with feeling very bad and vomiting after first 5 km because of very hot weather and eating to much before the start
-run 3 whole marratons and few half marratons, with avarage time but still once trained almost nothing and then had lots of problems finishig all 42 km;got problem and thinkig about quitting on 5. km suffering all the way from there till the end but still finnished 42km,
- 28. place out of 35 000 at the Authentic Athen Marathon eventhoug running with digestive problems and abdominal cramps, stopping few times on toilets.
-qualifying for the New York marathon this year (november 2015)
- canyoning and kayaking in Soca river ( in Slovenia soca velly), which is very wiled river and many people have lost their lives there, however i was once doing that after whole night partying without sleeping at all and had a big luck that i survived. Anyway this place is amazing eventhough is so close to my home!
-Istanbul, amazing city
-working once 20 hour in OR (operation room), assisting at some heart operations then had 2 hours break that i spend for running and then I actually spend another 36 hours in OR, almost fall asleep then while walking home...and then my roomy told me that she had arranged party with some friends that `we hadn't seen for quite a long time and she couldn't reached me on the phone ( as i was in OR) to tell and ask me that before....however I went parting with them at the and and came home in the morning going again directly to work in a hospital.
-working at our emergancy neurological department and stroke unit from time to time, taking quick decisions that directly infect the patients lifes and later on the quality of their lifes, sometime helplessly watching young people and chieldren die, comforting their families (well it is not amaizing doing that but it is hard to stay strong and unefectedly continue working and taking care for other patienst taking another hard decisions )

What I Can Share with Hosts

Experiances, interesting stories, great time

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Rwanda, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Italy, Papua New Guinea, Slovenia, Sweden, Uganda, United States