Urban Planner, Traveler and a Dreamer (short bio, goals, dreams, interests + lots of photos ) (Eng., Рус.)
Hello Everyone!
My name is Ella. I'm originally from Riga, Latvia, but I moved to Los Angeles when I was 12 years old. Later, when I was 20 I moved to Spokane, Washington to finish my bachelors degree in Urban and Regional Planning. I'm not sure if I will continue living in Spokane, but it all depends if I find a planning job here. I might move back to LA.
I speak English and Russian. Used to speak in Latvian, but I almost forgot the language because I never use it anymore.
Currently, I am working on opening a small online store specializing in antiques and handmade items. Hopping to start selling by the end of this year. Also, I travel a lot lately, but only in Canada and United States this year. Previous years were more about traveling in Europe. I'm hoping to see Asia next year.
Things I like: philosophy, history, astronomy, urban planning (community planning, economic development, and environmental planning), traveling, photography, reading, Taoism, cooking, playing games ones in a while, tasting new food and wine, outdoors, art, animals, taking long baths while listening to books or watching shows with a glass of wine, hiking (but I'm lazy), and many more things.
I consider myself as an optimist, even though my life wasn't and isn't very easy. My motto is: live your life, don't survive it! I believe that traveling and adventurous life can heal our souls. I think life is art and it is beautiful in its own way.
Another thing, I'm a dreamer, and what I mean by that is that I want to believe that everything is possible and sometimes I even believe in things I don't see, or at least I hope things like that exist because why not? I think life is more interesting when it is a lot more than only what you can see. Also, I'm a dreamer because I just like to look at the sky and think about infinity. Somewhere there is another world, many worlds, many different things not like on earth. … and we don't know so much.
I have a dream to open a no-kill animal shelter and a rescue, but it costs a LOT of money and sadly government won't help me with that either because they don't fund NO-Kill shelters, but I still want to do it because I just really want to do something good in the world and I was always very sensitive about wildlife and all animals.
Here, I am thinking to write about traveling, give some advice on how to buy cheaper tickets, how to get to the place, write about places to see, ideas on how to travel on a budget and without it, and just about my travel experiences. I want to propose some ideas about how to spend a weekend at home or outside, and maybe show couple cool food and drink recipes. Also, maybe once in awhile have some philosophical discussions about life, death, morals , friendships, etc. I don't know how this Steemit blog will work out for me, but if everything will go great I might also write about art and my other interests , so everyone can find something for themselves to read about.
Anyway, I'm very happy that I found out about Steemit. I always wanted to have something like a blog that will actually help other people. ... and I'm hoping I will meet some great people here.
Please follow me :)
part 2: About my family members: cats and fishes
https://steemit.com/animals/@ella-kay/new-to-steemit-about-my-family-members-cats-and-fishes-i-love-animals
Well a big HELLO to you Ella - great intro and bio.
It just so happens that the team at Community News is looking for someone to run a travel advice column at #communitynews. Feel free to show us what you've got by incorporating this tag into your first travel advice post.
Regardless though - best of luck with your Steemit career.
COMMUNITY NEWS
thank you! ok, I will :)
Welcome to Steemit Land! Great to see you continuing to post more often now!
I wish you the best! Hope you gonna have fun with our community and see you soon.
thank you!
Hey there @ella-kay and welcome to steemit! I can see that you are putting a lot of effort into your posts, which are a joy to read having only come across you recently. (I think I noticed your name when you left the steemit.chat General channel, was the spam or level of discussion that poor? ;p Tell me if you're interested in finding a chat community related to a more specific topic so I can help you!)
Urban planning is a really cool topic to work with, especially in a more digital age where big data on mobility and citizen's needs can be analysed to design "smarter" cities, as has been so trendy lately.
Also, who are your favourite philosophers? And what do you like about astronomy? Seeing has you have a rather different background I would be curious to know :)
Anyways, again welcome to steemit!
Hi. Thank you . I really enjoy reading about Tao te Ching. My favorite philosopher is its writer, Laozi. But of course he is not the only one that I like, but it is hard to say that the other ones are my favorite because i never agree with them completely. I might write about that some day. I have a pretty good philosophy background from university. I was taking a lot of philosophy classes because I was planning to get a BA in it, but later I decided that I want to do Urban Planning. Well, astronomy isn't that far from philosophy :) the way stars move was always a topic for ancient philosophers. I guess, after learning about Aristotle and Plato, subject about our universe was always on my mind. Just the thought about infinite world makes you want to learn more about it.
Welcome to Steemit @ella-kay - This is a really good first post... I look forward to reading about your travels... Im curious where you received your planning degree. When I read that it sort of lit up some old memories for me - Fresh out of school looking for the first gig, not sure what part of the country to go, debating where would be best to actually enjoy your work... I guess you could say I know exactly where your coming from...
Thank you! I got it at Eastern Washington State University. In our city this is the only university that has this program and I got lucky with tuition :) very cheap compare to private schools here.
what is your profession?
Now I'm a General Contractor - heavy industrial and high rise. I guess you could say I have a lot of experience in your field also - I spent many years working on the Southwest Florida Comprehensive Plan (capital project consultant), went to school with and was married to a planner, and even now my girlfriend is an environmental tract planner...
nice! :)
Welcome aboard @ella-kay. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you need assistance.
Cheers,
@yehey
thank you so much. yeah, I might need some help, but I'm trying to figure out on my own for now :)
OK
Cheers for now. Got to go, beauty sleep time.
good night :)
Excellent @ella-kay :D upvote
Thanks :)
Welcome to steemit!
I know that steemit may seem very overwhelming to you right now but don't worry. There's a learning curve to everything so just be patient and you'll be churning out posts and becoming a part of something great in no time!
Also if there are any questions that you may have, then just ask your questions on any of my blog posts or in a reply below and I'll be more than happy to assist you with whatever questions you may have! I will also be creating a basic starting out guide for all minnows and newcomers on my blog so do give it a read as that might help answer many of your questions!
Have fun and I wish you LOADS of success on here! :)
Also. you can call upon originalworks whenever something you post is your own content like this: @originalworks
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Thank you. Actually, I was wondering if there is anything else like originalworks that I should know about?
Mhm. There's also the minnowsupport project that I have described in my last post. I'll be adding a post for curation rewards and how they work in a day or so :)
Welcome to steemit greetings
Thank you :)
youare welcome on steemit. I wanna say that your are so cute . looking for ward to see nice things about your dreams.
Thank you
Welcome Ella! I love the Latvian people, they are so kind and lovely. Thank you for helping to make our community even more
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Thank you. I will try to do good here :)