Taking a break and only meeting up with people I already know or if we have a mutual friend x

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

🇰🇿 A Couchsurfer from Kazakhstan (GuGu/Gulya) encouraged me to join. She's amazing, by the way.

Interests

✈ Aviation with side-interests in geopolitics, folklore, anthropology etc

Some amateur psychology

I like making and customising things.

Currently teaching myself to repair and recondition cashmere and learning about textiles and colour theory (like how blue and red make purple but more advanced).

• cats
• folklore
• diy
• ethics
• crafts
• aviation
• origami
• anatomy
• anthropology
• genealogy
• psychology
• russian language
• social justice
• airplanes
• trains
• reddit
• handcrafts
• textiles
• english language
• transportation
• ethnography
• transport
• central asia
• comparative linguistics
• planespotting
• colour theory

Music, Movies, and Books

I prefer non-fiction to fiction, except maybe Sci-Fi

Alternative rock, indie, English and Ukrainian folk. Post-soviet Russian and Euro-pop.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

• Got into university before finishing high school
• Freelanced as an academic/medical translator from the age of 14

Teach, Learn, Share

Every trip is a little anthropology case study. I like studying people.

I want to build bridges between cultures, in particular between Poland and the Russian speaking world. We have more in common than we'd like to admit (superstitions, communist era disco music, language etymology...).

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm very open-minded. No subject is taboo to me.

I assume some form of chocolate is a universally good gift, unless told otherwise.

I will leave your place as it was when I arrived or even cleaner :) Please, let me help around.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, United Kingdom