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Georgia - from Jan 2024 until May 2024 View all
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Heya there! I'm Gaia, a 28 y.o. Italian aspiring filmmaker and storyteller from Milano, Italy 🎥🇮🇹
In March 2023 I've started what was supposed to be a one-year journey throughout Europe with my last stop being Georgia. Now one year later and in Georgia, my craving for travelling has only deepened and I'm planning to keep on moving towards East, through Iran and India.
The rest of my journey is a mistery still, but I'll try to observe the principle of vacilar, as the Spanish would say, and devote my travel to finding experiences, but most of all people, that may challenge my views, as well as my writing.
The main reason I travel is because I see it as an extension of how I also experience Cinema: it provides you with an unrivaled opportunity to immerse yourself in other people's worlds. You could say It simply helps me becoming a better person, as well as a better writer.That's why most days, when I'm not travelling, you can find me buried in a movie theatre having film marathons until my eyes and brain beg me for mercy. All because I do believe in beautifully told stories and their power to change the world.
The other main reason I started this journey to begin with was to find an ethical and alternative way of living in a world that deems overconsumption and hoarding money as the ultimate (if not the only) goals for human life. I don't see any point in devoting this short life of mine to a corporate world, eventually contributing to the further destruction of this planet. This is why I've decided to backpack solo, only moving around by bus, trains, hitchhiking and mostly using couchsurfing. Ironically enough though, I do have an ambitious and hard-working mentality and I like contributing to smaller realities while I slow travel.
On a less serious note 💁♀️:
I do fit the typical Italian stereotype of being an obsessed foodie with a coffee addiction☕. So be prepared for some mean home cooked vegan pasta al forno and the strongest moka coffee of your life.
Beware: high risk of random talks about linguistics, romance philology, cinema and techno.
[updated on 30.03.2024]
Interests
Charity workAdventure sportsAnimalsCarpentryArchitectureDrawing & paintingHistoryVegetarian or veganMusicLGBTQArt & designWritingLanguagesPlant carePerforming artsPhotographyMovies & TVSustainabilityVideographyPolitics / Social justice
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Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
French: IntermediateMore details about my language interests
I have a BA in Modern Humanities with a focus on Romance linguistics, as well as a Cambridge C2 Proficiency certificate, so I am very interested in language exchange. I can potentially teach English, and I'd love an opportunity to brush up on my French and Spanish
Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
I'm interested in:
Eco Projects
Hospitality/Tourism
Charity Work
Art Projects
DIY and building projects
Some knowledge of:
Gardening
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Helping around the house
Teaching
Able to teach about:
Languages
More details about your skills
🛎️ Hospitality, customer care and cashier duties
Amongst other things, I volunteered in film festivals, worked in a bookstore in Milan, helped preparing airbnb apartments for guests, volounteered in a hostel in Vienna for 2 months and in a café in Istanbul for 2 months also
🌵Gardening + pet care
I love love love gardening and animals. Being in contact with the soil, planting and seeing the seeds of my work (pun intended) is probably one of the most rewarding things. These days, while workawaying, gardening is one the main things I'm doing.
🛠️ Carpentry and renovation
I helped building and furnishing a studio and a vintage shop while in Norway, + i contributed with the restoration process of a railway station in Czech Republic
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🖋️ Creative Writing, storytelling and some copywriting
(I worked in an indie online newspaper for 2 years)
🎬 Filmmaking (Screenwriting, Directing, Photography, Sound Recording)
I studied in Prague at PFS and shot my first short movie there
🎞️ Video Editing on Avid and Premiere
🕮Teaching
5 months experience in Alesund, Norway teaching filmmaking to kids while helping them develop their short movies
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Other skills:
🍝 Cooking
🚲 Basic bike maintenance
🖱️ Familiarity with Linux (Fedora in particular)
🔍 Random facts about European history and romance languages
(blame it on the BA in Modern Humanities)
Age
28
What else ...
🌱 vegetarian, mostly plant-based
💉 fully vaccinated against Covid
🎥Movies that I'll happily rewatch over an over are: Midsommar by Ari Aster, Laputa by Hayao Miyazaki, Petite Maman by Céline Sciamma
Last movie I watched: Aftersun
🎵musicians that soothe my soul: Paolo Nutini, The Runaways, Deep Purple, Men I Trust, Courtesy, Mia Martini - 🎧 I do have a true obsession for acid and ravehouse techno, and trance
📖currently reading: My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
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Thank you for every task you took on and for being such a positive energy at the station. If… read more
I was the only volunteer there, which is not usual, but Jam made sure I was okay with this beforehand and I gotta say that overall I actually appreciated being more on my own, having time to write and read, as well as enjoying the… read more
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Thank you for every task you took on and for being such a positive energy at the station. If… read more
I was the only volunteer there, which is not usual, but Jam made sure I was okay with this beforehand and I gotta say that overall I actually appreciated being more on my own, having time to write and read, as well as enjoying the… read more
