CURRENT MISSION

i'm supposed to find a vase

ABOUT ME

I'm currently doing a Masters degree in International Relations in Seoul, RoK. I'm focusing on global health and sustainable development. I've travelled a lot and lived in various different countries. I'm friendly and always up for meeting new people, discovering new ways of living and learning new languages.

PHILOSOPHY

Wachsen ist doch das schönste im Leben (Paula Modersohn-Becker)

Interests

Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji

• cats
• ballet dancing
• coffee
• drawing
• international relations
• languages
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

la grande bouffe, tokyo!, hiroshima mon amour, the big lebowski, a short film about killing, blind chance, michel gondry, any Billy Wilder, 42nd street, ichi the killer, a short film about love, la jetée, sans soleil, to be or not to be, chungking express. If I could live in a film, I'd choose something by Ozu or Café Lumière.

music: jazz
favourites at the moment; the besnard lakes, yeasayer, sophie hunger, rodrigo y gabriela, okkervil river
and then; chopin, gershwin, ryuichi sakamoto, philip glass, sufjan stevens, m.ward, yo la tengo, the mars volta, ratatat, fujiya and miyagi, paco de lucia, malajube, oui oui, Happy End (pronounced Happi-Endo)

i really like that song from the TekkonKinkreet movie, by Asia Kung-Fu Generation, i think it's called 'arumachi no gunjyou'.

Books: IR theory and financial markets, at the moment.
Astrid Lindgren, Murakami Ryu, Max Frisch, Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
I've also been getting into Québecois literature recently

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach you how to draw hands that look like surgical gloves, how to swear properly in Swiss German, the 5 ballet positions, grammar, how to throw a frisbee properly

i want to learn: RUSSIAN, how to play the banjo, but mainly i want to learn about your views on life, death, quantum physics, Schrödinger's cat....so, coffee?

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Palestine, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, South Korea, United Kingdom

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