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In winter you’ll find Aneta Szyja on the mountainside, either skiing or sipping hot chocolate. When the snow melts, she’ll be enjoying the fresh air on her bicycle. When she’s not embracing a healthy lifestyle, she enjoys the films of Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick, or reading novels and biographies. She is also a fan of progressive rock, especially Syd Barrett, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix.
In future, she would love to teach Afrikaans to Polish and foreign students and infect them with the joy of this wonderful challenge.
In future, she would love to teach Afrikaans to Polish and foreign students and infect them with the joy of this wonderful challenge.
Handball, rock climbing and snowboarding are some of the sports Martyna Witkowska enjoys. You’ll find her at Heineken Open’er Festival every year. She loves travelling, and her dream destination is Rovaniemi in Lapland, where she will snowboard with Santa Claus. Her only regret in life is never having been to a Michael Jackson concert.
Paweł Konik risks his life every day to feed his cycling addiction, making him a regular sight on the streets of Poznań and formerly his hometown of Opole. As often as possible, he challenges himself to climbing rockfaces in the mountains. He loves good music, by which he means garage rock, punk, free jazz, stoner, piano, funk, new wave, trumpet, saxophone, 60s, 80s, crossover and chillout. On top of that he is (actively!) interested in tattoos and body piercing.
Monika Mazurkiewicz is in love with King Shaka, and South Africa in general. She is from the mountainous south of Poland, but not a highlander, as many think. She loves the sensation of reaching the top of a mountain, and can’t see the point in sunbathing or seaside holidays. She enjoys working with children, volunteering as an English teacher at an orphanage. She loves cooking Polish cuisine, and specialises in desserts.
Joanna Telus is a fun-loving, jolly person, exploring what the world holds for her. She has eliminated one skill – when it comes to cooking her greatest achievement is preparing a meal without injury. She loves a quiet evening with a good book or film, and enjoys a variety of music styles, from pop and soul to jazz and hard rock. When it comes to her interest in foreign cultures (especially the Far East) she sets herself reasonable goals: she would like to speak all languages known to humanity.
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Tertius Kapp is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Adam Mickiewicz University's Department of Dutch and South African Studies, specialising in South African subjects. This is his second study trip to South Africa after organising 2011's Multiversity Tour. He is also actively involved in the South African theatre scene and frequently writes for various South African publications.
Jo Sterckx is a senior lecturer at AMU's Department of Dutch and South African Studies. He teaches theory and history of cultural & media studies and Dutch language acquisition. This is his second tour to South Africa after assisting with the 2011's Multiversity Tour. He writes a PhD on the evolution of the image of Central and Eastern Europe in Dutch culture.