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Overview

  • 19 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, German, Portuguese, Romanian; learning Greek (modern)
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • social worker, radio dj, photography lover, drifter
  • sociology-psychology-anthropology graduate
  • From Prahova Valley, Romania
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

up up and above

ABOUT ME

me: the music i listen to, the movies i watch, the books i read, and the people i like to listen to, to watch and to 'read'.

PHILOSOPHY

paths that go nowhere and everywhere. in search of 'ubiquitousness'

P.S.: why do you live your life? asks CS. this is one of the reasons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp1aP_CEq44

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

hosting and surfing every time I have the chance.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

my CS experience really started in 2011 as I lived as a EVS volunteer in the beautiful Lisbon and traveled around the Iberian Peninsula, and I'm glad with it so far:)

Interests

music music music,everywhere,anytime.
movies&theater.books.the smell of antique bookstores.the height of bridges.dead leaves.full&empty boxes.odd earrings.street art. white dots with colourful dresses.

  • arts
  • books
  • theater
  • street art
  • recipes
  • movies
  • music
  • backpacking
  • surfing
  • volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

music:
Trip hop, Classical music, Jazz, Indie, Post-rock, Experimental rock, Alternative rock, World music, Klezmer.

movies, a lot of movies, underground, less underground, independent, big names, not that big names...to name a few:
La double vie de Veronique, Dogville, Eternity and a Day, The Reader, Rope, Das Weisse Band, Songs from the Second Floor, Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulain, Du Levande, Trois couleurs, Breaking the Waves,Das Leben der Anderen, L'auberge espagnole, Taxidermia, Decalogue, Whatever Works, I'm Not There, Abre Los Ojos, Garden State, The Shop on Main Street, Hable con ella, Let the Right One In, La pianiste, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Hindemith, Cherry Blossoms, Le scaphandre et le papillon, Once, Goodbye Lenin, Closer, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Enemy at the Gates, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, Time, The Isle, Requiem for a Dream, A Beautiful Mind, Fight club, American Beauty, Une femme est une femme, An Affair to Remember, and many many DOCUMENTARY and ANTHROPOLOGICAL films

books:
Kundera,Huxley, Kafka, Garcia Marquez,Sartre, Bartis,Cartarescu,Ionesco,Lobo Antunes, Steinhardt,Buzzati,Pennac,Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Wisława Szymborska, Marin Sorescu, Dan Sociu, Dana Catona

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have a midnight music radio show (on a volunteering basis) on an independent Greek radiostation, broadcasting from Berlin.

In August 2012 I did my 20 day trip around the Iberian Peninsula with my camera and my backpack.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share about my fantastic life and work in Lisboa as a EVS volunteer, and I can teach some delicious recipes and some basic language skills in Portuguese and German. I am open to learn anything as long as it captures my interest.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania

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