professional traveler, university english teacher, traveling addict, hitchhiker, political thinker, beer conneseur (however you spell that), chelsea/bayern fan, whatever you want to call me! :D i travel. travel travel travel...i love big cities! :P i need subways and street performers and cigarettes 20m from my door at 3 am! :P after living in warsaw for a year, harbin for 6 years and near koln a while, i'm definately a big city mouse! :D

i learn languages! i soak them up like a sponge! so far i've been learning spanish as i'm half mexican (my mom came from northern mexico when she was 6), polish, mandarin chinese, lithuanian, german, dutch, french, flemish (northern belgian language that's a dutch dialect), russian (i can read cyrillic, it's suuuuuuuuuupereasy once you just start learning it!!!) but i'm really only much good at english (both american and british), spanish, mandarin, and polish :P i guess you could call me a language/culture junkie. i love sitting in front of wikipedia and reading all up on new languages, new alphabets, whatever! :D

i can't wait to travel to south central asia, like tajikistan, kyrgystan, uzbekistan, georgia, they're all fascinating to me! also...i've done so many of my traveling dreams that i've had to make new dreams...here's a new list, and believe it or not it's quite doable:

go to world cup in brazil 2014!, russia 2018!, qatar 2022!, ride a camel in morocco, go snorkeling in egypt, smoke a hookah in uzbekistan, relax on a beach in the philipines, party for carneval in rio de jinero, hitchhike from buenos aires all the way to alaska, and from portugal to singapore ;)

What i'm looking for:

you must be passionate about something, political passion especially ;)

you shouldn't be afraid to give ur opinion about any topic at anytime, anywhere. speak ur mind! a woman who is strong inside projects confident outwards sexiness hehe

you should be smart and funny

you should be someone who isnt afraid of adventuring and isn't afraid to try new things

you should have goals and ambition

you should love animals (must like cats!)

you should be adventurous in bed

if u know new languages i don't know yet w000!!!

i love hot accents...

i adore brunettes

and dreadlocks earn definate brownie points...:D

lately? in addition to teaching american accent at my university where i live in china, i've been a professional traveler :) i've been traveling a LOT in the last few years, god love life on the road! :) just in the last 8 years i've been to:

North America:
USA- Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Washington DC, Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Colorado, Nebraska, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Illinois, Texas
Canada- Windsor
Mexico- Mexico City, Oaxaca City, Puerto Escondido

Europe:
Ireland- Dublin
U.K.- London
Latvia- Riga
Lithuania- Vilnius, Birzai, Panevezys, Kaunas, Sakiai, lots of villages around Sakiai
Germany- Kaiserslautern, Otterberg, Manheim/Ludwigshafen, various villages
The Netherlands- The Hague, Amsterdam, Almere Buiten, Nijmigen
France- Paris, Dunkerque, Lille
Belgium- Brussels, Oostende
Spain- Barcelona, Tarragona, Reus
Poland- Warsaw, Krakow, Biolystok, Plock, Poznan

Southeastern Asia:
China- Harbin, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Beijing, Wudalianchi, WeiHei, Mudanjiang
Japan- Tokyo
Korea- Seoul
Philippines- Manila, Batangas City, Puerto Galera

soul calibur, FIFA 13...oh and i tell you what i'm NOT good at: i definately SUCK at bowling! :D but it's still fun!

my long hair, and everyone's always going on about my deep "chocolate velvet" colored eyes

let's see, books...i'm kinda hooked to the Dune series at the moment, movies i love anything you could call a cult classic...kevin smith movies, tarantino, robert rodriguez, anything that sounds good in 5.1 DTS...music, i LOVE rock and techno, especially any rock that has that good 70s sound that's coming back, like the black keys or jet or silvertide, but also the good classics like ACDC, zeppelin, the beatles, stevie ray vaughan, johnny winter, oh and SKA!!!!!!!

and for food? anything i really haven't tried before, i have quite a strong stomach and love to try things that most people would be like "you wanna order WHAT?" yes, i love sushi, spicy food and can make refried beans, mexican rice and tamales from scratch mmmmm makes me hungry, also turkish food is to die for (doner kebab), lithuanian soups, real chinese food IN china...they do AMAZING things with tofu, cilantro and peanuts!!!!!

worcestershire sauce, rock/elektro/ska, close friends, blackberry, ipod, my 2 cats :)

tambien, orale!!!! yo nunca podria vivir sin la lengua de la raza de oro! ;)

republicans and PiS members should be shot (anyone who puts economics ahead of personal liberties should be shot in my opinion!!!!)...thank god for dutch coffeeshops :D also...american marijuana laws are dumb, censorship in the states is overdone, and i feel real freedom whenever i'm in holland!

i used to be out exploring beijing, warsaw or mexico city, but now i'm back to the Harbin nightlife :)

my tongue's pierced, and i have a couple cool tatoos, one of flaming dice on the back of my leg and a cool tribal design going around my bicep with an aries sign in the middle, and another aries sign on my back, but i always forget about that one :) lol i got them all while stationed near new orleans, man that place ROCKS :), oh and i tend to hitchhike a lot, europe's perfect for it ;) especially in lithuania, goddamn i must have hitchhiked everyday around the southwest there...10km here...20km there...from netherlands to lithuania too! (more than once!)

oh and i own 7 guitars...it's usually what people first notice when they walk into my flat...i always get the same question: "why do you have so many guitars?" :D

-si se puede leer eso
-ruoguo ni neng duo zhe piar
-jeśli możesz przeczytać ten
-if you hitchhike!!! let's chat

-if you can help teach me learn/practice any one of these languages: polish, italian, turkish, german, russian, tagalog or annnnnnything...languages are sooooooooo much fun to learn!!!

my yahoo and skype screen name is ostrenga4, message me anytime :)