CURRENT MISSION

to launch an online scandi culture zine

ABOUT ME

I'm a bookish lady with bizarre habits,who loves books and want to be a writer when she grows up...I studied creative writing & english lit however I dare not to call myself a writer. Now I'm about to start studying Scandinavian Studies at the Uni. ..I work at the bookshop and I'm a real bookworm.I can go on about books for hours.Besides books I love films and illustration.I have a special interest in Scandinavia.I love to watch scandinavian/nordic movies and read books by scandinavian/nordic? authors (Hamsun,Laxness,Lagerloff,Lindgren,Tove Jansson ...).And finally I run out of reasons why not to travel more often .I'm natural observer who finds inspiration everywhere.I love to meet new people,everyone has so much uniqueness inside them,it's like world is made out of million thousand amazing stories and I want to read them all!
I also like films and talking about films(very,very dangerous). I can seriously spend a half day talking about symbolism in the Wire and Sarah Lund's knitwear.I wish to travel and write about my whereabouts.

PHILOSOPHY

try and make it better

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

hosting

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Great Experience,meet a people who became my good friends - a gems in my treasure box.

Interests

books,comics,writing,films,illustration,art,drawing music,cycling,running, mushroom/ berry picking, repairing things that broke down,photography with slr cameras and analogue ,travelling,knitting,learning swedish(not easy but I'm loving it!),Moomins,taking a bath (as a hobby rather then a necesity)-it's a real penchant of mine (I was a fish in my previous life)swiming hence the previous hobby,wondering through nature ...I like to support Independent establishment , independent publishing,music labels,press,retailers...

• fish
• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• photography
• illustrations
• running
• comics
• movies
• traveling
• knitting
• drawing
• music
• cycling
• fishing
• boxing

Music, Movies, and Books

very edited :Rear Window- Alfred HitchcockCat on the Hot Tin Roof - Richard BrooksGhost World- Terry ZwigoffMeshes of the Afternoon-Maya DerenFargo - Cohen Bros. (big Frances McDormand fan)Annie Hall,Manhattan,Hannah and Her Sisters - Wody Allen, Wuthering Heights (2012 version- directed by Andrea Arnold) Spike Lee's films - especially Crooklynn,Fanny Och Alexander or any Ingmar Bergman movie Shortcuts- Robert AltmanDivine Intervention - Elia Suleiman(recommended!!!)My life as a dog - Lasse HallströmDivided we Fall - Jan Hrebejk, Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights - Andrea ArnoldMorvern Callar -Lynne RamsayTwin Peaks,Spaced,Kingdom hospital,Forbrydelsen, WIRE !!!Tribe Called Quest,Gil Scot-Heron, Afrika Bambaata,Pixies,Fugazi,Jane's Addiction, Beastie Boys,Babes in Toyland,Joni Mitchel, Carol King,Habib Koite,Amiina,Sigur Ross,Efterklang, Rhye, Torro y Moi, Shabazz Palaces, Robert Glasper Experiment, Bobby Womack, Bjork,Bonnie Princ Billy,Mum,Billy Holiday,John Coltrane,Alice Coltrane,Thelonious Monk, Flying Lotus,Fela Kuti,Free Faces,Andrej Seban... jazz!!! a lot of jazz,old skool hip hop,afrobeats,as eclectic as it get's and soo much more...Authors:Mary Gaitskill ,Stefan Zweig,Albert Camus,Mikhail Bulgakow,Flannery O'Connor,Carson McCullers,J.D Salinger,Jerzy Kosinski,Charles Portis ,E.E Cummings,Elizabeth Bishop,Vladimir Mayakovski,Frank O'HaraFernando Pessoa,Bohumil Hrabal,Soren Kierkegaard,Sophocles,Barthes,Chekhov,Thomas BernhardAstrid Lindgren,Tove Jansson,Knut Hamsun,Haldor Laxnes,Ibsen,Tarjei Vesaas,Selma Lagerlof,Arto Paasilinna , Pia Juul, Helle Helle, Soren Kierkegard, Asko Sahlberg, Torgny Lindgren...Favourite books,I don't have a favourite book yet but these are the titles I love to re-read: Chess,Pinball,Ballad of the sad caffe,Paradise Lost,Macbeth,Antigone,Jane Eyre,True Grit,Franny and Zooey,Bad Behaviour,To Kill a Mockingbird...(for now)Comics:everything by Daniel Clowes,Jason,Amanda Vahamaki,Chris Ware,Hernandes bros,Grant Morisson..David Boring ,Ghost world,Hellboy,Watchmen,Transmetropolitan,Batman,Fun Home,Sin City,From hell,League of extraordinary gents.,Why are you doing this,Y the last man,Love and Rockets,Sandman,Contract with God,Maus,Shortcomings,Summer Blond,Sandman........

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Amazing is yet to come but visiting Iceland was dream come true,it's landscape is second to none and swiming in a blue lagoon in the middle of February was heaven on earth,Also travelling through Morocco was incredible, listening to storyteller in Marrakech engaging his audience into hypnotic state of devotion :-), eating berries whilst siting on the cliffs overlooking the sea in Finlands archipelago was another moment I hold dear, cycling through Kobenhavn and discovering it's hidden treasures was so natural that I never wanted to leave.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom