Katarzyna Ciesielska

Hometown: Warsaw, Poland
Grad School: University of Warsaw-English Department
Major: British Literature&Culture
Languages: Polish, English, German
Interests: Traveling, Photography, Movies, Books, Fashion, Music

I like: long summer nights (especially in New York!), traveling by car at night and watching the world outside, teaching English, reading, British&American literature, spontaneous photo shoots, watching old movies, spending long hours at the cinema, smell of the old books, my Ipod, visiting many unknown places, meeting new people, sharing experiences with my friends, yoga, coffee, tea, frozen yoghurt, VOGUE, NYLON, cutting and making collages from the fashion magazines, alternative music, interesting music videos, disturbing sounds, dreaming, dancing, new clothes, sleeping, lavender, perfumes, pillows, cosy interiors, NIVEA Cream, Carmex Balm.

I don't like: exams, writing essays, heat and extremely hot days, waiting in queues, playing volleyball, hyperactive interlocutors, headaches and toothaches, traveling by tram, stress, shouting, quarells, hangovers.

Movies: Lost in Translation, All About Eve, The Red Shoes, 8 1/2, Cabaret, Les Diaboliques, Amelie, My Fair Lady, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Funny Face, Roman Holidays, Fanny and Alexander, Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, Atonement, Broken Flowers, Annie Hall, The Shop Around The Corner, Sleepless in Seattle, Gone with the Wind, Deathproof, Metropolis.

Books: "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath, "Hamlet", "Julius Caesar", "Much Ado About Nothing" by Shakespeare, "Blonde" by Joan Carol Oates, "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, "Atonement", "The Comfort of Strangers" by Ian McEwan, "Caucasia" by Danzy Senna, "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, "Native Son" by Richard Wright, poetry written by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Music: Florence and the Machine, Metric, Austra, Coldplay, Sleigh Bells, Lana del Rey, Foals, The National, Lissie, The Killers, The White Stripes, The Dead Weather, Young the Giant, The Kills, Santigold, PJ Harvey, She and Him, Feist, Marina and the Diamonds, Adele, Selah Sue, Cults, Robyn, Kings of Leon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Norah Jones, Diana Krall.