I'm an energetic, movieaholic, spontaneious person, who wants to be a neuropsychologist, or an art therapist or a sleep researcher (or all the three, but currently working as a French teacher/snowboard instructor), had a tortoise called Anyegin ("had" because we released him back to the wild a few years ago) and writes down her dreams since the age of 9 (nowadays just recording them, life accelerated a bit, however, this made me have a new habit: recording sound-environments at places where I go). Of course I also love travelling, like you. Aaand I love blowing hot air under my pullover with the hairdryer on cold winter nights and patiently opening pomegranates. My hobby is making weird metaphors and staring at surrealistic paintings. And I started writing and drawing comics about "The Beauty of Everyday Conversations." I llllooovee outdoor sports!!!!!!! Especially rock climbing! And snowboarding! And oooh whoa surfing!! But mostly rock climbing. And I started getting into bikepacking, too. I have a strange passion for spinach, I don't know why.

Right now, I'm in the process of applying for a PhD position. I recently moved back from Paris, where I was on an Erasmus semester.
I also did an Erasmus traineeship in Thessaloniki (I'm half Greek so it was also a kind of 'searching for my roots' thing) and that's where I started hosting so most of my feedbacks are from there. In Budapest, I'm living in an almost empty flat because I just moved in and recently got it renovated, so if you need a place, I have plenty of it.

I'm also hosting people together with my mum in Békéscsaba (South-East of Hungary), so I'll present her as well if you would want to come to our place rather than to Budapest:
My mum is a child psychologist and couples therapist, loves French culture, and makes pancakes for breakfast every sunday morning for ages (best habit ever); she loves reading Marquez.
We have a cat called 'Karfi' (meaning 'nail' in Greek and a nickname for 'Cauliflower' in Hungarian).

In Budapest, I live together with my little brother, Leo. Since I'm mostly on the road nowadays, he is more likely to be able to host you. He loves to experiment in the kitchen, plays as a pianist in a bar, gladly quotes the Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and when he was 4 he explained to the kindergarden teacher the stages of a dying star. He often imitates on the piano my laughter or weird sounds that I make, so usually, our conversations sound a bit like some edgy vocal jazz jam. He loves Viktor Pelevin (and pancakes).
We have chess, and he's very willing to play with you.

See you guys, remember your dreams in the morning!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Why not?

Interests

• writing
• vegetarian
• yoga
• comics
• reading
• painting
• drawing
• bouldering
• surfing
• skiing
• snowboarding
• rock climbing
• astronomy
• geography
• history
• neuroscience
• psychology
• hitchhiking
• volunteering
• mushrooms
• contemporary dance
• quidditch
• surrealism
• lucid dreaming
• acrobatics
• canyoning
• neurology
• wall climbing
• barefoot
• aerial silks
• sleeping under the stars
• olive oil
• contemporary circus
• spinach
• playfight
• sleep research

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: BADBADNOTGOOD, Mild Orange, Miel De Montagne, Flavien Berger, Tinariwen, Imarhan, Yin Yin, Marcoca, Takeshi's Cashew, Szymon, Alice Phoebe Lou, Skinshape, Dakhabrakha, Khruangbin, Altin Gün, Saodaj, Sages comme des sauvages, Duke Ellington, etc., funk, psychedelic rock, soul, desert blues, jazz, classic, folk, greek, french indie, my Spotify algorithm knows better

Movies: Richard Linklater (Waking Life is my favourite), Jim Jarmusch, Akira Kurosawa, Satoshi Kon, Béla Tarr, Charlie Kaufman, and one favourite movie recently: Tampopo, a ramen-western! And a pure treasure: 'Dead Mountaineer's Hotel' (Estonian sci-fi). And a really special one: 'Balloon', a tibetian movie about contraception and reincarnation.
Favourite documentary: 'Langue des oiseaux' by Erik Bullot (I wanted to be an ornithologist as a child, maybe that's why)

Books: Milan Kundera, Alessandro Baricco, Chinghiz Aitmatov, south-american magical realism (Marquez, Borges!!), russian classics, old sci-fi novels (Stanislaw Lem!)
My ultimate favourite book, which I have a strangely intimate connection with, and I feel like going on a secret date each time I open it, is 'Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften' ('The Man With No Qualities') by Robert Musil.
I sometimes write my personal diary in the style of Bohumil Hrabal, if I have a lot to say.
I used to work on a bookshop-chariot on the streets of Budapest, so I often dream about books.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lucid dreaming, 6 times so far.
Also, once I got rescued by a helicopter in the Alps without having any injuries.
I also slept in an abandoned Soviet caravan in the middle of a forest in Georgia.
And I touched a wild octopus on the head!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you various card games and some Greek or Hungarian. I can sing you my favourite song (The Tiger and the Dolphin), explain you the neurological background of dreams and recommend you many movies and books and music and unexplicable YouTube videos. We can share our travel stories and stuff. And maybe playing together some surrealist games.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I remember my dreams every single day so if I can sleep at your place at least you get a cool story to start your day

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Greece, Hungary