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Min: I love hiking! and cooking, video games, manga, singing, yoga, rock climbing... I am on my way trying painting, sailing, diving and so many.

hola hola 🌻 here is Oli, a Moldovan-Romanian who recently found his way home after half of a lifetime studying. this june, i decided to put my phd on hold, packed my things and left Germany after 9 years studying computational physics and neuroscience. my whole being is drawn to move and be outside. loves wilderness and rocky regions. runs quite often, especially when greenery fills the eyes and lungs, and rocks or dirt touch the feet. i tend to contemplate a lot and be quiet. i find a lot of peaces in music, where both my mind and body merge into profound rhythms. my hands enjoy getting dirty. i was born and grew up in a small Moldovan village at the border with Romania. from age four, i mostly lived with my grandparents, while my parents were away working for a better future - as many of that generation did. with many fields growing all kinds of crop, my grandparents were taking me with them around. our household was shared with many other animals - usually a cow, goats, chicks, ducks, dogs and cats. i still love garden work, fixing things and caring for animals. after school, i followed an academic path - first physics, then computational science and machine learning. this eventually led me six years in a cognitive neuroscience lab, first as a research assistant and later as a phd candidate. along these years i started being fascinated about consciousness and contemplative practices. this opened a (new) inner journey, one that departed more and more from what i was doing in the lab. the last few years into the phd i started getting more and more restless, moved places several times, last time being this one - moving back to the homelands. i started feeling a longing for connectedness. it is through working together and joining efforts, rather than individually, that i feel i bloom - where i shine back the happiness and good energy i see in others. this is what drives me to volunteering. my experience as a volunteer is quite fresh. last autumn i left the city for an organic farm in a nearby village, where i helped care for bulls, cows, horses and many other animals in exchange for a place to live. there i (re-)discovered a smooth wordless connection with other animals. then, summer was the second time i helped with setting up of an outdoor music festival in the mountains of Transilvania. while in the wilderness, far from cities (and even villages), i discovered coming alive even more intensely. since then i keep waking up with an urge to be OUT THERE, to be with the rest of NATURE, to share, to care. i want to keep unfolding and share this light around the world. am very eager to keep on stepping along this shared journey.

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Incense Making Course / Corso di autoproduzione incensi

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This year, I started wearing a hat, and I absolutely love it! This particular hat, which I wear every day, is green and made of wool. I think it looks like a forest hat, especially after one of my weekly trips to the forest foraging. My colleague and farming partner tells me I look like a tomb hunter, a description that suits me quite well too. In this hat, I gather feathers and flowers that I find along my path. Not only does the hat help me function better on sunny days spent in the fields or in my kitchen garden, but it also looks quite classy. Being a big fan of jazz, blues, and bossa nova, it fits my style well. This is obviously not my first hat. I already have some winter garments that I use when out and about in Siberian countries and, of course, in northern Norway. The newest addition to that collection is a red fox hat I got for Christmas. It matched the hats worn by the nomadic family I met in Mongolia, although theirs were local and mine was Russian. For some of my activities, a scarf is more than enough—a head covering for the more hygienic parts of the day, like taking care of the cows, milking, and preparing food.

Language(s) I would like to learn : French, Russian

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