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Overview

  • 3 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Sign Language - Russian, Spanish
  • 32, Female
  • Member since 2012
  • Lucid Traveller
  • University
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To grow from withIN rather than from withOUT.

ABOUT ME

I am not much into these "about me" sections but I guess I'll have to stick to the rule, haha. To make the story short, I have 2 keywords that twist around my life and being: connection and motion. Connection means communication. Communication with people, nature, places, different cultures, different ways of doing things, different views, approaches, etc. And motion stands for travelling, movement. Both directly and figuratively. We need to grow motion in ourselves - some magical dynamics that make us go forward and sharpen our wits so that we're able to see all the magic that surrounds us. Because YO, WE ARE MAGIC!

PHILOSOPHY

“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because I like meeting up with people, having nice conversations, getting to know each other's cultures, etc, etc.

Interests

  • books
  • graphic design
  • photography
  • dancing
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • backpacking
  • sports
  • meeting people
  • having fun
  • changing the world

Music, Movies, and Books

Big music maniac! Love all kinds of music as far as they fondle my ears.
Top three movies... oh, that's difficult... okay, I'll spit out three on the top of my tongue: Samsara, Fight Club, A Beautiful Mind... and so much more!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I made a 2-year pilgrimage trip in Latin America by myself. Wild solo traveling in its purest form. Never done anything better for myself.

Teach, Learn, Share

That's all I wanna say:

1. https://vimeo.com/8736190

2. "Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."
Carl Schurz

3. "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. To experience everything. Live the questions!"
Rainer Maria Rilke

4. "The only journey is the one within."
Rainer Maria Rilke

5. "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

What I Can Share with Hosts

Some good vibes and good sense of humor!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, Nicaragua, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bulgaria, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Russian Federation, United States

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