Natural precursor of amusement, future hacker, aspiring multi-instrumentalist, idioms enthusiast, best person to be around if you dropped your ice-cream

Brought up on the southern coast of Black Sea, in a sunny Ukrainian city known for its happy-go-lucky spirit and people who learned not to take life too seriously; currently keeping myself busy with education + volunteering + taking care of a coffee shop in Bucharest

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To satisfy the needs of my inner info junkie, maximize the number of people I can get acquainted with enjoyable things like the word "kakashka", and, subsequently, make the world a better place

Interests

Finding a topic I'm not curious about would be a true challenge; momentarily focusing efforts on improvement of my whistling technique for the Shostakovich's second waltz

• watches
• reading
• coding
• jazz
• piano
• languages
• neuroscience
• ukulele
• ping pong
• maps
• sunsets
• fruits
• cactus
• cards
• peanut butter
• waffles
• ghosts
• optics
• whistling
• feeding ducks
• african snails
• cryonics

Music, Movies, and Books

Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel's My Body Is A Cage, Chopin's Scherzo no.2, whole Illmatic by Nas, Valentin Strykalo, Nirvana, Les Choristes, Gerry Mulligan, old children songs from Soviet cartoons, etc.

The Big Lebowski, Moonlight Kingdom, Snatch, Inside No.9, Black Mirror

Three Men In a Boat, Alice in Wonderland, Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy, Sum: 40 Tales of the Afterlives, The Road by Jack London

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Touched and performed chemical tests on fossilized dinosaur poo

Teach, Learn, Share

Sharing conversations of any grades of depth or anything else I've got in store and you're willing to accept: deep knowledge of superstitions popular across the post-soviet countries, fun card/word games and other ways to kill time without touching your smartphone, cool handshake routines, cheerful mood or my last slice of bread

What I Can Share with Hosts

How to cook 3 kinds of pancakes (including bliny and oladushki) and other amazing dishes with silly names, how to write a love letter or swear in Russian/Ukrainian/Romanian, how to sing a happy birthday song if you're in Denmark, how to make a whistle out of your hands, how to play AC/DC on a ukulele, various facts about animals, also giving out professional full-proof Good luck's and Have a nice day's

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Romania, Ukraine