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Overview

  • 5 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Russian; learning Bulgarian, Spanish
  • 39, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Textualist
  • French language and literature
  • From Saint-Petersburg
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

see the world and near galaxies

ABOUT ME

Catcher of pearls

PHILOSOPHY

People can contrive their quays, lovers and friends little more then choose their parents. Life gives all this and deprive it, and the most difficult thing is to say "yes" to this life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm not new in CouchSurfing: at the beagining i partiсipated in some couchsurfing activities in Saint-Petersburg, but after some months i mooved to one of the poorest countries of Africa where couchserfing moovement almost don't exist.

Interests

Painting, languages, music, cinema, sport

  • literature
  • movies
  • painting
  • music
  • sports
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

My favorite films: "Roman Holiday", "Wait until dark ","Abre Los Ojos","Azuloscurocasinegro","Caotica Ana","Perfect Sense","Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset","In the Mood for Love","OrangeLove", "Shining","Dear Frankie","L'appartement","Ce soir, je dors chez toi","Ne le dis à personne","Un homme et une femme","Gainsbourg (Vie heroique)", "Don Juan 73 ou Si Don Juan etait une femme","L'Odeur de la papaye verte", "Un balcon sur la mer".
My favorite music: Marcus Miller, Alex Han, Groove Armada,Aeroplane,Todd Terry,Kathy Diamond,Calibre,Roisin Murphy,Regina Spektor,Depeche Mode,Air,Jazzanova,Eric Clapton,De-Phazz,Daft Punk,Milosh,Kayna Samet,Jamie Woon,Henry Purcell,Bach,Tchaikovsky
My favorite books: "Tender Is the Night","The Great Gatsby"(F. Scott Fitzgerald),"The Catcher in the Rye"(J. D. Salinger),"The Lord of the Flies"(William Golding),"The Collector"(John Fowles),"The Black Prince"(Iris Murdoch),"Idiot"(F.Dostoevsky),"Naiv.Super"(Erlend Loe),"The Wight Closes"(V.Dudintsev),"The Master and Margarita"(M.Bulgakov),"Hard to Be a God","Dead Mountaineer's Hotel","Roadside Picnic","Snail on the Slope","Monday Begins on Saturday","The Ugly Swans","Prisoners of Power","Space Mowgli","Beetle in the Anthill"(the brothers Strugatsky),"Bonjour, Tristesse"(F.Sagan),"Le Petit Prince"(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry),"Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There"(Lewis Carroll),"Captain Blood"(Rafael Sabatini),"The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion"(James George Frazer),"The Art of loving. An Enquiry into the Nature of Love"(Erich Fromm),"Letters to Milena" (Franz Kafka),"The Unbearable Lightness of Being"(Milan Kundera),"The Name of the Rose"(Umberto Eco),

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw the giraffes in the wild! One of the more impressional things i saw in my life! They are aliens, it's sure!

I'm learning to play the saxophone - it's my perfect love, my childhood dream, and, as you know, childhood dreams are the truest!

Teach, Learn, Share

French language, Russian literature

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco, Niger, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Niger, Russian Federation

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