CURRENT MISSION

Learn to live slowly and enjoy small things every day. Travel as much as possible :)

ABOUT ME

Curious, open-minded, rather calm, eager to meet new people (though usually a bit shy at first) and loving to have a good laugh.

PHILOSOPHY

I feel at home whenever the unknown surrounds me.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only positive. Had amazing time staying at people's places in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Rovaniemi and acting as host in Warsaw. Great friendships, some of them (I believe) for life.

Interests

Above all, new experiences!

• photography
• concerts
• breakfast
• wine
• cheese
• coffee
• drinking
• movies
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• swimming
• teaching
• history
• international relations
• languages
• hitchhiking
• lakes
• mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Repeatedly riding a bike in a 50-cm deep snow.
Eating a breakfast in a cemetery/park in Copenhagen and meeting a drunkard with a bottle of wine who spoke perfect English and wanted to discuss international relations.
Conversation with a poor old Ukrainian lady in a small village in the mountains, who genuinely wished me to have the same happy life as she had - and she never went further than 50km from that village.
Hitchhiking in Lapland.
Night swimming in a lake.

A separate category - not amazing, but very powerful: a visit to a concentration camp.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can help with anything from my interests, languages and photography especially.

I always wanted to learn to play 'classical' games such as chess, bridge, poker etc., but somehow never found a teacher (or patience to do it by myself). So maybe it could be you :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Poland