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Overview

  • 26 references 23 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Polish, Spanish; learning French
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • hemp farmer & a company owner
  • graduated as philosopher of cultures
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION
..no mission.. serendipity <3

ABOUT ME
uf.. tiny, moody, bookworm, experimenter, voracious of new ideas and good people around, to think talk laugh out loud together ~ to share dulcet silence while looking for wild strawberries in the woods, yummy

PHILOSOPHY
awareness passion creation

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
3 (free) couches to share

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I've hitchhiked across Argentina and Chile with plenty of fleeting e-n-r-i-c-h-i-n-g encounters, so beautiful people and their spontaneous generosity by the way.. never-to-be-forgotten journey

CS stimulates and nourishes my mind, that's exactly how I imagine real traveling aaaaand... there're so many soulmates to host!

Interests

specifically iterested in how to stretch the time and extend days as there is always a little too little time for all these wonderful things that flitted in front of us

Music, Movies, and Books

books've been always the most important:

* Judith Schalansky: Atlas of Remote Islands
* J.M. Coetzee: elegant restraint and ethics
* Henry Miller: vice versa :)
* Hakim Bey: temporary autonomous zone
* Cortazar: todo
* William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Fernando Pessoa: mood
* Henry David Thoreau: Walden
* Dubravka Ugresic: journalism
* Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Buber: philosophy of dialogue
* Kuki Shuzo: iki, the essence of japanese'ness
* poetry of Khalil Gibran
* Witold Gombrowicz: my Polish master

movies that made me cry:

* "Empty House" Kim Ki-duk
* the trilogy of Park Chan-wook
* "Buffalo'66" Vincent Gallo
* "Le Scaphandre et le papillon" Julian Schnabel
* "Dead Man's Shoes" Shane Meadow
* "Waste Land" Lucy Walker
* "Man on Wire" James Marsh
and more..
"salt of the earth" most recently

music: indie, classical and ethnical + ..cocorosie, Sinead O, Manu Chao, Tiger Lillies, CatPower, Glass, Silver Mt. Zion, more of experimental sounds and more &and more

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

childbirth
twice**

Teach, Learn, Share

can teach you how

* process cannabis plants into CBD oil
* build out of wood, clay, straw
* experiments with plants' fiber: lamps, paper, sculpture
* how to make a quite simple biological wastewater treatment system - Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetland (SFCW)
* films and prints development (darkroom fun, an ancient analog method :)
* making copperplates, linocuts, some more printing/graphic techniques that I'm not sure how to name
* chopping wood in a meditative way
* dream to much
* well.. still in progress, working on that;)

ha! a new-one: how to build a big clay pizza oven!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, Russian Federation, Spain

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