CURRENT MISSION

Travelling for me is a biggest freedom

ABOUT ME

Well, I am very open minded person. Being born and grown up in Moscow, I am already about 10 years living and working in Western Europe. Travelling is a very essential part of my life, since it really helps me to broaden my horizons and meet interesting people with different backgrounds, interests and hobbies worldwide. So far, I visited mostly all the European countries, was studying for 6 months in Brazil and also was travelling in Asia, in Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong and US. My hobbies, apart of travelling are foreign languages, photography, cinema and filmmaking, Salsa, other South American dances and climbing.

I had a 3 month sabbatical last year: amazing time and I used it to do something different in my life: I went to New York and completed a short term filmmaking course and after a screen-writing course, so just trying to write a script for a movie in my free time...that's hard...

PHILOSOPHY

Never give up, never stop enjoying life even in the moments, when it turned up to be difficult. Everything is on the bright side of life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am new here, I would love to meet new people

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am new at couchsurfing, i generally prefer to stay at some friends places instead of hotel, while I am travelling,as it is a good possibility to get to know the real sights of the country and not really only touristic ones. My flat is also always open for all my friends.

Interests

travelling, foreign languages, ice skating and inline skating, surfing, snow boarding and wake boarding, Salsa, Tango ( can't really dance), forro (dance from Brazil), climbing, photography, filmmaking

• writing
• photography
• film making
• dancing
• tango
• movies
• traveling
• surfing
• rock climbing
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Casablanca, American Beauty, movies by David Fincher, but to be honest I prefer more non-Hollywood cinema, also independent.
Wide range of music from bossa nova to French chancon and from reggae ton to classics, from rock to jazz and electronic music.
I like Dostojevski, Marukami, Garcia Marquez, Bulgakov, Uellbeq

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, filmmaking course in New York, Tough Mudder competition https://toughmudder.com. But damned, life is simply amazing every day

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Russian, German or English language, I also can teach some Russian dance and bit of salsa (salsa from Russian sounds quite weird though)))

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russian Federation