CURRENT MISSION

On a constant mission to make the best of life here and now and learn more and more about myself, life, people, the world.
I love meeting new people for I believe that each new person opens up entirely new worlds and broadens the already existing horizons. Needless to say I love travelling. It is one of the essential things in life for me.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is what you make it.

Be present and attentive, listen, don't jump to conclusions, don't judge, be open to life.

Everybody's doing the best they can at any given moment.

Grow and learn from every experience, no matter how hard it seems to be. There's gold in every situation - keep looking for it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I currently live in a studio so am not able to host, but I'd love to meet up with you and show you around. I also gladly (and often) answer questions and give tips on Slovenia to travellers who are coming to the country so freely write me and I'll try to help you. And last but not least, I always do my best to establish a connection with my CS hosts when I surf their couches. Thank you, everybody!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

By far the the best way to feel the culture, meet the people and have an amazing time.

SURFED:
- Budapest, Hungary (October 2008) @Attila Juhász
- Surabaya, Java - Indonesia (February 2009) @Sari Louvi
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (March 2009) @Edmund Loh
- Georgetown, Penang - Malaysia (March 2009) @Mun Munawar
- Lisbon, Portugal (July 2009) @Jorge Jesus
- Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (July 2009) @Frederico Gomes
- Malmö, Sweden (March 2010) @Carl-Emil and Indira Kjellstrand
- Copenhagen, Denmark (April 2010) @Andreas Westergaard-Nielsen
- Kalmar, Sweden (July 2010) @Georgios Trebicka
- Stockholm, Sweden (July 2010) @Mikael Olsson
- Oslo, Norway (July 2010) @Martin Eichelmann
- Stavanger, Norway (July 2010) @Henrik Høyland
- Madrid, Spain (April 2011) @Jorge J. Solitario Martínez de Zuazo
- Madrid, Spain (April 2011) @Agustin Carreterro
- Kuching, Borneo-Malaysia (August 2011) @Mosoof Abbasi
- Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei (August-September 2011) @Jonathan Beveridge
- Kota Kinabalu, Borneo-Malaysia (September 2011) @Alan Lam
- Georgetown, Penang-Malaysia (September 2011) @Zac Riggenbach
- Granada, Spain (May 2012) @Veronica Gil
- Auckland, New Zealand (September 2012) @Hamish Kempthorne
- Gisborne, New Zealand (September 2012) @Maja Harris
- Nadi, Fiji (October 2012) @Vilimaina
- Lautoka, Fiji (November 2012) @Shalon Sugden
- Brisbane, Australia (November 2012) @Tim Foote
- Alice Springs, Australia (January 2013) @Ben Goodwin
- Darwin, Australia (January 2013) @Ashley Harris
- Istanbul, Turkey (December 2013) @Sebambino Caglar
- Arezzo, Italy (May 2014) @Thoma Carugati
- Vientiane, Laos (August 2014) @Claire Albergel
- Tbilisi, Georgia (July 2015) @Teona
- Yerevan, Armenia (July 2015) @Anahita Ghasemi Nasab
- Tbilisi, Georgia (July 2015) @Toni Vacharadze
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands (April 2017) @Tim Verweij and Francien Yntema
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands (May 2017)@ Dani K

HOSTED:
- March 2010 (Samy and Anne, France)
- July 2012 (Steen Freydenlund Jensen, Denmark)
- July 2013 (Mathilde Baumann and Kristian Jensen, Denmark)
- September 2013 (Radomir Cizek and Beata, Czech Republic)
- November 2013 (Jiyeong Oh, South Korea)
- November 2013 (Bruno Assmann de Azevedo and Nadini Vacari, Brazil)
- May 2014 (Kavan Cleary, Canada)
- June 2014 (Chew Fei Phang and Jun Cen Zheng, Singapore)
- September 2014 (Mike Richards and Karen, USA)
- September 2015 (Salma Fatma Houerbi and Matilda Donaldson, Tunisia and the UK)
- August/September 2018 (Tim Verweij and Francien Yntema, The Netherlands)

COFFEE/DRINK, GUIDING IN LJUBLJANA:
- August 2010 (Alessandro, Italy)
- July 2011 (Matt Daniel, Australia)
- January 2012 (Yuan-Ming Chiao, Taiwan-Germany, and Stefan Hoe, Germany)
- March 2012 (Angelos Parmatzias, Cyprus)
- April 2016 (Toni Vacharadze, Georgia)

CS MEETINGS:
- February 2009 (Surabaya, Indonesia)
- April 2010 (Esbjerg, Denmark)

Interests

life, personal growth, English language, reading, travelling, good vegetarian food, musicals, singing, dancing, theatre, books, Australia, cycling, sustainable living, Oxford, cats, flowers, Asia, yoga, figs, cherries, cakes, having fun, cooking and baking, ladybirds, rainbows, diversity of cultures, summer mornings/nights, bright colours, street performance, greeting and b-day cards, private jokes, languages, art, fruit, film festivals, fireflies, sunny days, puffins (and birds in general), unique fridge magnets...

• cats
• birds
• arts
• culture
• books
• poetry
• singing
• performing arts
• interior design
• film festivals
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• baking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• walking
• flowers
• reading
• traveling
• karaoke
• cycling
• languages
• psychology
• fruit
• organic lifestyle
• jam making

Music, Movies, and Books

Eyes Wide Shut, Manchester by the Sea, Mustang, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Brokeback Mountain, Pulp Fiction, Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa), Trainspotting, La Grande Belezza (The Great Beauty), Coffee and Cigarettes, The Lord of the Rings, Gegen die Wand, The Sound of Music, The Birds, Amelie, La Vita e Bella, Schindler's List, American Beauty, Lost in Translation, Leon, Cabaret, Fight Club, Adaptation, Silence of the Lambs, Bladerunner, Matrix, About a Boy, Forrest Gump, The Remains of the Day, Eyes Wide Shut, Billy Elliot, Riders of Justice, Drive My Car, The Father, Another Round...
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Girl, Woman, Other (Bernardine Evaristo), Judas (Amos Oz), Call Me by Your Name (André Aciman), I know why the caged bird sings (Maya Angelou), The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi (Elif Shafak), Murakami books, Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov), The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy), The Buddha of Suburbia (Hanif Kureshi), Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), Adrian Mole diaries (Sue Townsend), Life of Pi (Yann Martel), Alamut (Vladimir Bartol), Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren), The Name of the Rose (Umberto Ecco), Crime and Punishment (F.M. Dostoyevsky), Hafis poetry, Narcissus and Goldmund (Hermann Hesse), Amos Oz books ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Life constantly fascinates me, so just some top of the pops:
- doing Australia in a (half-broken) campervan (two people, three months, 11 thousand kilometres, all the freedom in the world)
- running the half-marathon from Denmark (Copenhagen) to Sweden (Malmö) over the magnificent Øresund bridge
- swimming with humpback whales in Tonga (and yes, it was as crazy as it sounds!)
- fenceless camping with wild elephants at the doorstep (literally!) in Botswana (and the sounds of lions growling in the distance)
- paddling in the scintilating waters of Costa Rica (bioluminiscent water) - I felt as if I had a magic wand, full of stars
- garbage diving in Esbjerg (seeing how much food we discard just like that casts a whole new perspective on our so-called civilized and developed society)
- watching playful monkeys go to sleep in the river Kinabatangan area, Borneo, Malaysia
- observing and nearly touching puffins in Iceland
- participating in a children's film about a dwarf (I played a role of a cranky mother :D)
- Venice Biennale of Art 2009 (the company as well as the exhibition was mindblowing! It was one of the best days of my life!)
- dancing on stage with an Indonesian jug woman doing karaoke in Penang
- miraculously finding rafflessia in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
- Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin (really powerful architectural setting of a great museum)
- enjoying peaceful serenity of the Isle of Arran (Scotland)
- snorkelling in Bali (I saw Nemo!)
- being a COMENIUS language assistant in Denmark (a wonderful half-a-year experience)
- walking through the maze of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (it is simple, but so telling and emotional)
- learning how to sing like a pro
- being an au-pair in Oxford for 3 months (<3 <3 <3)
- camping under a glacier in Iceland (and doing Iceland in general)
- walking around Ljubljana (35 km, 8 hours, great company)
- wild camping at Ursa beach in Portugal
- going to EURO 2000 in Amsterdam to support our national football team
- admiring Petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur
- C.R.A.Z.Y. partying in Oxford with Iva and our friend Bogdan
- funky nights in Budapest with Alan
- quitting watching TV 18 years ago and thus drastically improving my life
- participating in Couchsurfing.

Teach, Learn, Share

Baking and cooking.
I love talking about languages and I'm a sucker for exploring English (browsing through a dictionary in search of random words is my guilty pleasure - guilty as charged!).
I always crave more knowledge about psychology. Personal growth FTW. Just sayin'.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Countless travel stories, tips, experiences

Witty laughs

Good reads, good films

English language tutoring

Vegetarian recipes and cooking tips

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Fiji, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, New Zealand, Slovenia, United Kingdom

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