🤪 The kind of girl who can ride a bike in a dress, weaving through the city streets with ease. I can do rock climbing with long nails or tackle any wild adventure that seems impossible at first glance. And I guess it’s my superpower: to be different.

✨ I like night walking in the summer and unpredictable adventures (throughout the year). Sharing experiences over a glass of wine, talking the night away about all sorts of things.

🍷🗣️ A huge lover of good food, good wine, good coffee, and a good chat!

🧠🫠 Have a soft spot for pets 🐶, brains, creative souls, stylish people, crazy sense of humour, smiles, and hugs.

🌱 Vegetarian for 5+ years (no meat except for some fish and seafood). However, I can deal living a co-existence with people who aren’t vegetarians and even cook meat with you 😅

🦥 Learning to be an aerialist.

PHILOSOPHY / CURRENT MISSION

To make sure that at the end, when my life flashes in front of my eyes, I will have plenty to watch 👀

Only two things we will regret on deathbed that we are a little loved and little traveled
(Mark Twain)

A man has two lives. The second one starts once you realize that you only have one.

My art of living: https://www.instagram.com/_maria.prokhorenko

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

1. I am addicted to traveling. I have to circulate to feel alive.

2. I travel solo quite often.

3. I love meeting new people with different mindsets and backgrounds, creating new connections (maybe even friendships?) and seeing countries through locals’ eyes. Couchsurfing made me have so many unexpected, random, sometimes weird and always — spontaneous experiences!

4. Although I can afford to book an Airbnb, I often prefer CS. This way, I can truly experience the city, meet locals, and learn how they live.

Interests

• bachata
• wine
• traveling
• eating out
• scuba diving
• snorkeling
• snowboarding
• sports
• language exchange
• discovering new places
• pole dance
• aerobatics
• marketing digital

Music, Movies, and Books

Whatever fits the mood, but as an example:

MUSIC: The Beatles; Arctic Monkeys; M83; MGMT; Nick Cave; Tame Impala; ONUKA; Clubz

MOVIES/SERIES: Interstellar; Grand Budapest Hotel; Kleo; The Menu; Last Night in Soho; The Green Book.

BOOKS: "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Shantaram".
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One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Got stuck in Thailand during the pandemic 😬

Crossed the entire Mexico travelling by buses from Mexico City (CDMX) to Merida, Tulum & Cancun and staying in each city/town/village for quite a while.

Bungee jumping from 60 meters.

Swimming in the Baltic Sea (the water was, like, +14 degrees max) 🥶

Started learning hoop aerobatics although I’m extremely afraid of heights 🫠

Put fried cockroaches 🪳 into my friends’ rice in Thailand as a joke (they still hate me for that 😂)

and… started using Couchsurfing of course!

Teach, Learn, Share

Stories, personal experience, ideas, drink, cooking, talk philosophy, knowledge, time, personalised gifts, cuddles, fun, whatever. Just ask!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food (I cook sometimes, so far, no one got poisoned 😅), Dozens of Different Stories, Good Vibes, Tolerance, Yummy Gifts (I do hope you aren’t a chocolate hater cuz I always have some craft chocolate from the local factory in Ukraine 🙂), and Personalized Gifts (although you can help me with that)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Latvia, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Qatar, Slovakia, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, Thailand, Ukraine