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Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland
@BARTOSZ.KONSTRAT
Member since 2012
ABOUT ME Hello, everybody! My name is Bartosz, I am Polish. I work as an English teacher and translator. At the moment I am teaching online students from abroad. I also translate movies for cinemas, television and film festivals and I translated two books into Polish. I am also a poet - I published 5 books of poetry and got lots of awards in Poland. I am one of the best known poets in Poland - there is even wikipedia entry about me: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartosz_Konstrat Unfortunatelly, only in Polish. I regularly take part in poetry festival in Poland and I was also on transtations scholarships in Latvia and Czech. I also write short stories, dramas and screenplays. One of my plays was staged at a theatre in Warsaw, and one of my screenplays was made into a short movie - I can show it to you :) This is my facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bartosz.konstrat And my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bartoszkonstrat/?hl=en I also meditate if I have time, have been for 10 years now. Currently traveling for 20 months: October 2022: Spain, Great Britain, Portugal, November 2022: UAE, December 2022- February 2023: India, March 2023: Nepal, April 2023: Bangladesh, May 2023: Thailand, June 2023: India July - August 2023 Sri Lanka September-November 2023 Malaysia and Singapore December 2023 - February 2024 Indonesia March - May 2024 Vietnam June -July 2024 India
Interested in Art
Interested in Baking
Fluent in English
Fluent in Spanish
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
I want to travel around the world and meet interesting people. Meeting new people from different countries and cultures is really my thing :) I already have friends from China, India, Indonesia, Sweden, Belgium, Great Britain and many more countries, but I want to meet more and have interesting conversations and exchange experiences :)
Music, Movies, and Books
I read a lot and I watch a lot of movies. My favourite film directors are: Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier, Kim Ki-duk, Takeshi Kitano, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Woody Allen and many, many more... Every year I go to a film festival in Wroclaw and watch 40 movies in 10 days :) On Netflix I watched recently: Lupin, Squid Game, Breaking Bad, Master of None, Grace and Frankie and many more :) I like on a daily basis, more than one book a week. I like novels, plays and poetry and non-fiction. Now I am reading The books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, Polish Literary Nobel winner.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
- I have hitch-hiked through Europe when I was young. - I directed a short movie "Bergman", which was nominated for an award at a film festival in Poland. - I published 5 poetry books, two of them were nominated for the most important poetry award in Poland - Silesius award - I hosted at my place people from Europe, India, Indonesia, China and Nigeria and I am still friends with some of them - I saw the polar night in Narvik. - I walked along the glass bridge around a mountain top in China.
Teach, Learn, Share
I am a strong believer in constant learning. I read a lot about history, geography, politics, history of art... I am interested in learning about different cultures and I can tell you a bit about Poland.
What I Can Share With Hosts
I am always willing to bring a gife from Poland, be it a magnet for a fridge, a postcard, a bottle of Polish alcohol, we can discuss it :)
My Interests
Art is my number one interest. I am at the cinema once a week, at the theatre at least one a month, and I have visited about 30 museums just last year. Some of my favourite museums and galleries: Tate Modern, Prado, Centre Pompidou, Escher Museum in the Hague, Rene Magritte museum in Brussels, Musee D'Orsay. In Warsaw: Warsaw Uprising Museum, Chopin Museum, Wilanow Palace, Zacheta Gallery, Museum of Modern Art.
