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Overview

  • 13 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Italian, Swedish
  • 33, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • No occupation listed
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  • From Oppdal + Kristiansand, both in Norway
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About Me

(i'm living the vagabond-life nowadays - living in 4 places so i can't host, but i would love meeting up/pretending i'm a tourist guide, drink coffee/beer and dinner!)

CURRENT MISSION

to live as freely and magnificently as i possibly can

about me: i'm a very happy girl who likes too many things.

instagram.com/juliesynnoeve

philosophy:
'you and i are not snobs. we can never be born enough. we are human beings;for whom birth is a supremely welcome mystery,the mystery of growing:the mystery which happens only and whenever we are faithful to ourselves. you and i wear the dangerous looseness of doom and find it becoming.' - e.e. cummings

"i believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small euclidian mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened." - fyodor dostoyevsky

"perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us." - rainer marie rilke

"the animals of the world exist for their own reasons. they were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men." - alice walker

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

couchsurfing experience:

all of it eye-opening, rewarding, easy and wonderful!

Interests

my boyfriend, those little things, the world, singing, poetry, music, veganism, photography, writing & literature, dancing (contemporary, lyrical, bellydancing), astronomy, optimism, learning things, making things, cooking, traveling, sleeping under the stars, coffee, psychology, human beings, yoga & meditation, science, beer, philosophy

  • animals
  • writing
  • literature
  • poetry
  • singing
  • photography
  • dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • beer
  • coffee
  • vegan
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • music
  • astronomy
  • psychology
  • science
  • tourism
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

fleet foxes, led zeppelin, the xx, kent, ludovico einaudi, devendra banhart, sigur ros, tame impala, jimi hendrix, pink floyd, thomas newman, arvo pärt, olafúr arnalds, max richter, sufjan stevens, slowdive, the antlers, nicolas jaar, the rolling stones, noah and the whale, arcade fire, lykke li, how to dress well, bon iver, grouper, julianna barwick, hammock, cocteau twins, current 93, darkside, grimes, yung meth, sage francis, kitty pryde, of the wand & the moon, etc.etc.etc (i could go on forever)

literature:
shantaram by gregory david roberts, harry potter series, lolita by vladimir nabokov, the lovely bones by alice sebold, dharma bums by jack kerouac, siddharta by herman hesse, the road by cormac mccarthy, fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury, the lotr trilogy, picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

others:
leonardo da vinci / r.r.rilke / e.e. cummings / rumi / pablo neruda / anis mojgani / andrea gibson / carl sagan / stephen hawking / henry david thoreau / anaïs nin / arne næss / alan watts / colleen patrick-godreau / pleasefindthis.com

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-grew up in the mountains.
-traveled through Germany and Poland in a bus with 30 teenagers.
-WWOOFed on a farm in a beautiful Scottish landscape.
-drove through England, Lanzarote, the French Riviera, Provence and Tuscany.
-got lost in Paris.
-participated in the most incredible roadtrip in july 2014: through germany, the Alps, beautiful northern Italy + the Dolomites
- september 2014: spent 3 days in Gothenburg with my boyfriend, focusing only on beer and amazing vegan food

Teach, Learn, Share

would like to teach:
- veganism
- mental health/psychology
- cooking

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Norway

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