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  • Last login about 1 month ago

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Overview

  • 42 references 31 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian; learning French, Spanish
  • 39, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Software testing engineer
  • High education, School of Management of SPb State Univers...
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Для русскоговорящих - нет, тут не домик для бедных поросят, нет, мне неинтересны ваши причины поиска ночлега, нет, я не принимаю людей, которые не удосуживаются прочитать мой профиль и занимаются массовым спамом.

June and July 2015 are out of question for hosting.
Please note that I tend to reject requests from people who obviously didn't even read my profile, nothing personal here. I prefer guests which actually care which host will accept them.

CURRENT MISSION

Adventure may hurt me, but monotony will kill me

ABOUT ME

I'm a nice and friendly person I think. I have lots of friends, I like to go out very much, to have big parties and to get to know new people.

Don't start me on Saint Petersburg cultural heritage or history, as I won't shut up for hours and will bore you to tears. I deeply love my native city, and can talk about it forever. However, you can easily switch me off to movies or games or some other subject, I love to talk about almost anything)

PHILOSOPHY

I think we live only once, so we should live every day as it's the last one.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like to host people visiting SPB. I love my city very much, and I'm always happy to show you guys around and tell stories about my city history and traditions.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've already hosted several couchsurfers, and met even more for a coffee and chit-chat. I had a great time communicating with people from different cultures and countries, and I hope to continue my CS participation.

I believe in Couchsurfing mission which states that it's a project about cultural exchange and experience sharing. So please don't write to me "Hi, can I crash at your place, bye", it's hotel reservation you need, not a CS host.

Interests

I'm a software tester, and games are my passion as well as work-related subject.
Foreign languages - it's so fun to learn new words, new languages, get in touch with another culture.
Travel - I like to travel by myself, I dont like tourist guides and so on. London is a city of my dreams, I've been there for 4 times now and I'll visit it again.
Music - I like russian rock very much and I play the acoustic guitar a bit. I'm crazy about musicals as well, "We will rock you", "Mamma mia", "Cabaret" are among my favourite ones

  • culture
  • coffee
  • partying
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • history
  • languages
  • software

Music, Movies, and Books

I like movies so much, especially those about mafia (Godfather, Untouchables). In fact I'm omnivorous about movies, I see practically all new ones.
Musicals, russian rock music, that's what I like to listen.

I read a lot, fantasy and sci-fi books are among my favourite (Michael Moorcock, Terry Pratchett, Ray Bradbery and so on)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Mining museum in Kohtla-Nomme, Estonia
Disneyland in Paris
We Will Rock You musical in London

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation

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