People say you shouldn’t just talk about work if you want to appear fun. So here are some of my interests:

  • I like learning languages. So far I’ve tried English (C2+), Mancunian (C2), Greek (C1), French (B2), German(~B1), Mandarin (HSK 3), Turkish (A2), and Liverpudlian (~A2). I once spent a summer learning Classical Nahuatl.
  • I like doing sports. I somehow managed to represent Cambridge University twice in the so-called Spare Pairs Race against Oxford, and I successfully lost both times. Like my approach to research and language-learning, now I do a little of a lot of sports to make sure I don’t get very good at any of them.
  • I like to eat. It is the main reason I got into doing sport. This means I have to like cooking. It can be fun sometimes, nonetheless.
  • I also like to stress myself out by listening to lots of politics podcasts and reading books about history and its consequences for contemporary world affairs.