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Overview
About Me
Dear future friend!
Under this sentence, there is a little autobiography about us so we will make a summary here on the top if you don't have time to read it (and you probably don't)! :)
SUMMARY in one sentence:
A young couple from Croatia who loves to learn from others and see the world from different perspectives. Keywords: 500 days of summer, Autobiographies, Into the wild, Photography (Sony alpha), all kinds of food.
We are a couple from Croatia with a goal to make new connections, share experiences and knowledge, have lots of fun, experience adventure moments, hear and participate in creating crazy stories, and of course to make tons of awesome photographs and videos to document our journey!
I (Martina) studied psychology here in Rijeka, Croatia for a little over a year, but it didn't turn out to be my calling, so now I am starting university in Bournemouth, England next fall to study Visual communication (I'll go there for the first time on incoming trip! So fricking excited!). My passion is photography and video making and currently, I'm making a living out of it.
Furthermore, I am a dance teacher (hip-hop, jazz, ballet) in a dance group here in Rijeka - I can show you some moves or we could make a choreography together! :)
Dancing is not my only connection with music. I have finished elementary music school - singing and piano playing and I still sing and play the piano from time to time!
I (Jan) am finishing the third year of business management but already work as an executive assistant in a small IT company. I am not a classic business management student, more like an alternative version of it. From the day I finished high school I was involved or made some of my own project where I learned the most about business and mixing it with environmental sustainability - college knowledge = zero real knowledge.
I'm also dancing (that is actually how we two met :)), singing and know some basics of guitar playing. I'm very passionate about entrepreneurship, e-commerce, motivation, and life in general (lol) and I love sharing what that knowledge l have about building businesses because I believe it offers the freedom of choice in life and can impact others on such a beautiful way. I will talk about it only if you want it, I really don't like being a pushy person. Even more than that, I am passionate about human beings. I love to hear your stories, look at the world from your perspective and learn from you!
My second passion is cooking, so we can merge our knowledge and create magical meals! :D
We both love exercising and eating healthy and are always looking to learn more about nutrition and health, but when traveling on the low budget, this is definitely not a priority. :')
We hope that we will have a chance to meet each other.
You can check us out on Instagram or Facebook if you want:
Martina:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/martinafrancula/
Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/martina.francula
Jan:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trip2neverland/
Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/jan.uroda0
Blessings from sunny Croatia!
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
We are a couple who loves to travel and would like to do it much more often than we can. But when we can, we love to make a mix of Airbnb and Couchsurfing. We think that there isn't a better option than meeting the person who lives in the place you visit. Why?
First of all - cultural exchange! We LOVE learning about other cultures, about everyday life in different parts of the world, even towns. Living as a domestic for a few weeks is the best option to get the most out of your trip in our opinion!
Secondly, it is just amazing how humans interact with each other, despite the fact we may come from whole other parts of the world. We are into mutual learning and sharing the knowledge we have with you. We definitely love hearing all of your stories and troubles, and we will help you in any way if we can, if we can and if you would like us to do so! We are really open-minded, tolerant and conscientious. We respect all of the terms hosts have and understand it no matter what it is. If someone minds having a couple who sleep on the same couch because of religious reasons, we accept it and will stick to it! If someone is a vegan, we will eat and prepare vegan food! Want us out of your nest in 8 am til 8 pm - you got it! Having different perspectives is what makes life rich and we want to be rich in that way!
Finally, because we all are growing together! We are open to critics (trying to be egoless because we really think that kills people much before they actually die), flexible, honest and grounded people. You can always ask us or tell us something you don't like about us, give us a suggestion, recommendation to make a change in something we do.
Interests
- animals
- singing
- photography
- dancing
- cooking
- crossfit
- drones
- traveling
- piano
- nature
- video
- playing guitar
- exploring
- video editing
- video production
- drone
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies:
Martina: 500 days of summer
Jan: TLOTR, Star Wars
Both: Into the wild :D
Music:
We love all kind of music which we find is artistic, cool or different. RocknRoll, Hip Hop, Reggae, African, Latino, Deb, Lounge, ...
Some of the artists: James Bay, Vance Joy, George Ezra, Rolling stones, Ed Sheran, Bob Marley, Damien Marley, The Smiths, Amadou and Mariam, Gramatik and really so much more!
Books:
Martina: Little Prince, The universe has your back, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Jan: Feel the fear and do it anyway, A Hero of our time, and I love biographies of different people whether they are entrepreneurs, singers, writers, artists or just regular peoples diaries.
Teach, Learn, Share
Photography, Photo editing, Video editing, Dance (hip hop, jazz, ballet), Singing, Cooking, Basics of guitar playing
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain
Countries I’ve Lived In
Croatia