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Overview

  • 21 references 13 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian; learning Spanish
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • an English teacher
  • Master's degree
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Please, don't send me requests to host. Not really possible at the moment!

PHILOSOPHY:
Be easy-going and kind. Have fun and help people. Try find youself in this life and not to waste the time doing unplesant boring job. Not to be be afraid to change smth. Never stop learning new things, getting new skills and personal development.

I wrote it 15 years ago when I 1st tried CS at a very young age, but it still sounds not too bad for me :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am very keen on meeting people and making friends!

Interests

My main interest is travelling, that's why I am here. I am fond of watching really good films and series, taking pictures , reading books, snowboarding, swimming, cycling. I am opened to everything new and challenging coming into my life.

  • books
  • festivals
  • movies
  • chess
  • reading
  • traveling
  • camping
  • snowboarding
  • teaching
  • keeping fit

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Arizona dreams, The Fountain (by Darren Aronofsky), Sunshine, Melancholia, Into the wild, XXY, Dogville, Alice in den Städten.
Series: Dexter, 6 feet under, Black books, True detective, Breaking bad, How not to live your life.
Music: Massive Attack, Radiohead, Tricky, Little Dragon, Morcheeba, Portishead, De-phazz
Writers: Jonathan Franzen, Donna Tart, F. Dostoevsky, L. Tolstoy, S. Dovlatov, Ernst Hoffmann. My favourite book is "Karamazov brothers". I also like French literatute: Michel Tournier, Boris Vian, Guy de Maupassant, Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Update: Moving to Spain (from Russia and in 2024 :)

- Parachute jumping
- Working as a teacher at school for 10 years
- Snowboarding
- Surfing
- Visiting Singapore and many other extraordinary places

What I Can Share with Hosts

update: I cannot host now!

A couch, a shower, some stories, my company, my friends' company and lots of fun!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Latvia, Maldives, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Hungary, India, Russian Federation, Spain, Thailand

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