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Overview

  • 39 references 27 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Polish; learning Amharic, Arabic, Spanish, Swedish
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • English Teacher / traveler
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About Me

Hey, so this is us - Frank and Alice. In September 2016 we left our home in Poland to travel our little hearts out.

** we’re currently in Argentina 🇦🇷 **

Frank is 10 years old and into everything exploring, adventuring, learning by doing.

Alice is.. well, not 5, also an English teacher by profession and a single mom by, uhm, fate, a rock climber, scooter lover and a coffee addict :)

Right now my little boy and I are slackpacking through South America, taking it one day at a time and making sure it counts, because one of the most important lessons I learnt traveling is that... How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

My couchsurfing experience (9 years and counting!) has been an amazing ride. Lots of amazing people, places and homes. Loving nearly every bit of it.

When we're in Warsaw, our mission is to offer a safe and comfortable place to crash for families. I know how much more of a challenge it is to travel with little one(s) in tow, when hostels are out of question and hotels ruin your budget. So, here we are - ready to have you with our couch and a stack of fresh pancakes.

On the road, we're open to whatever comes our way.

Interests

I love good coffee and a nice cup of tea, scrabble, spoken word poetry
Mountains, paragliding, skiing, horse riding. Leniwe pierogi, pasteis de nata and nutella crepes. And craft beers.

I also love traffic jams (gives you unquestionable excuse to do nothing, watch people and eat cookies), baking and that smile people give you before they say "I'm like that too".

Frank loves everything flying, firefighting and Daniel Tiger. He collects all kinds of things and puts them together in wonderful scrapbooks.

  • poetry
  • photography
  • documentaries
  • cooking
  • beer
  • coffee
  • baking
  • board games
  • traveling
  • cars
  • spoken word
  • backpacking
  • scuba diving
  • skiing
  • paragliding
  • biology
  • teaching
  • history
  • languages
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: "The Imperfectionists" by Tom Rachman
Kinga Freespirit (great polish hitchhiker) books. Plath, Kerouac, Murakami.

Movies: Babel, Into the Wild, Closer, Once, Notting Hill, Toy story, A Map for Saturday, My Blueberry Nights, Garden State, Lost in translation.

Music: pretty much anything, classical through contemporary. Jim Noir, Mika, EST, Stanko, Nouvelle Vague, Barenaked Ladies, Norah Jones, RHCP. Ethiopian jazz and west african top 10.

Food: ravioli, pierogi, sushi, crepes, stroopwafles, olives, hummus, coffee. oh man, coffee should've been first.

Teach, Learn, Share

Horse-riding, languages, biology, zoology, photography, cooking, scuba diving. History of Poland. Penguins.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My super secret pancake recipe.
One million board games.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Laos, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Maldives, Monaco, Montenegro, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Saint Martin (French part), San Marino, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, India, Poland, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

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