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Overview

  • 62 references 50 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Estonian; learning Finnish, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish
  • 46, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • serving my country :)
  • numbers, too many numbers :)
  • From Tallinn Estonia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To be brave and let go ...

ABOUT ME

I had a great childhood, meaning my parents didn't have much time for us; therefore, we had endless freedom to invent our games, be in trouble, find our friends, discover our hobbies - to become a person on my own. I love them for that.
I am not afraid of change, I actually enjoy it. Never been homesick, I feel that the whole world is open to me. Somewhat restless, expecting these bigger and better things to happen, while being myself a little lazy to take action on my own.
I got over it. I did an amazing seven months trip to South and Central America, met an amazing man in the supermarket of Santiago, Chile and my life just changed the direction. Now we have a beautiful baby boy and we are trying to figure out our life on both sides of Atlantic Ocean,
Being positive and believing that people are good in their nature seems to attract the same kind of people to me and this is the most important thing for me in life. Next to having a good laugh ... the kind of laugh when you have tears in your eyes :)

PHILOSOPHY

Be curious, be alive!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am not exaggerating when saying that when i have had many great travels, the first one i can describe as amazing, was my trip to Sicily summer 2011, alone and couchsurfing. I guess alone is not correct to say because i was with most incredible people. Then there was Turkey, India, Georgia, Armenia, Russia and Ukraine. Italy again. I don't think i can stop any more ... abroad and at home.

Interests

People - I'd be lost without human interaction
Travels - I'd be cranky/annoying if there weren't one that I am planning and the other one of past which still makes my heart beat faster when thinking of it
Food - feeling, preparing, exploring, inventing and of course eating it is a simplest pleasure in my life. I would give up all sightseeing, museums, churches etc just to have some local food on my travels.
Good book - to open the mind
Sports (volleyball, tennis) - to keep the body happy and to be able to do #3 of this list :)
Cinema, music, theater, exibitions ...

Italy - everything about it and italian - the most beautiful language for me. I have a strong suspicion whether I lived there in my past life or I was suppose to be born there and something went wrong :) Six times in eigth years tells something...

It all interests me, the only thing that I don't like is the paintball, because I always get shot right a way. Probably would be the worst soldier.

  • books
  • theater
  • dining
  • paintball
  • movies
  • music
  • paintballing
  • sports
  • tennis
  • volleyball
  • military science
  • sightseeing

Music, Movies, and Books

Some favorite and some lately:

Book - Tommy Helsten "You'll have everything that you give up"; Milan Kundera "The unbearable lightness of being", Arthur Golden "Memoirs of the geisha"; James Clavell "Shogun"

Movie - Ford - A Single Man, Almodavar - La piel que habito, Peris Romano, Rodrigo Sorogoyen - 8 citas

Music - Andrea Bocelli, Lenny Cravitz, U2, Seal, James Blunt, Jewel, Tido, Ewert and two dragons

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I think amazing things are actually little things. A hello from a stranger on the street, a free taxi drive in a big city when you are lost, a spray painted heart on the sidewalk that you pass every day on your way to the work.
Oh, and another little thing - The World, I have traveled to 52 countries :)

Countries I’ve Lived In

Estonia, France, United States

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