CURRENT MISSION Building things in my free time. ABOUT ME My name is Ivan. I am a naturalized citizen of Japan. I grew up in the Soviet Union in the city of Omsk. My father is Belarusian and my mother is of Ukrainian heritage. I have moved to Japan in 2007. I am working in the Orthopedics department of the Hokuto Hospital in Obihiro, Hokkaido. In the past I've been involved with historical reconstruction and role-playing activities, mountain climbing, , house building, botany, Tolkien role-playing, philosophy, ship model construction, English and Japanese homeschooling (as a tutor), skating, poem composing, motor vehicle repairing etc. PHILOSOPHY Marcus Aurelius
Interested in Adventure Sports
Fluent in English
Learning German
Pioneer Badge
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I'm going to host people and stay with those who'll host me and make donations once in a while. I also enjoy helping people in trouble just as much as I enjoy getting help when in trouble myself. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE 5 years of Hospitalityclub (see possi4ster) before I moved to CS 15+ years ago.
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: Miracle Worker, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Touching the Void, Dancer In The Dark, American Pie, Stalker, Amadeus, Gravity, My Neighbor Totoro, Blue Valentine, Rush Hour 2, Still Life, The Tribe (2014 film), House of Sand and Fog, Metropolis (2001 film) Music: Giuseppe Verdi, Backstreet Boys, Gentle Giant, Bjork, The Beatles, Uneven Structure, Mozart, No Doubt, Spiral Architect, Control Denied Books: 1984, Norwegian Wood, Three Comrades, The Red and The Black, Glory Road, everything by Strugatsky brothers, Silmarillion, Plato's Republic, some medical literature
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Donating blood 50 times
Teach, Learn, Share
I can teach Japanese(including hieroglyphs), English, medicine, making armor (esp. chain mail), some cooking. I'd be happy to learn Finnish, German, Spanish, blacksmith skills, gymnastics, hairdressing, Ukrainian language .
What I Can Share With Hosts
Stories of life in the USSR and the culture shock after moving to Japan.
My Interests
Medicine especially Orthopedics, Family Medicine, Pharmacology and Physiology, foreign languages (Finnish and Spanish more than others at the moment), working abroad. cooking, making music, studying, teaching, visiting opera and fine art exhibitions, all kinds of professional medical activities.
