ABOUT ME

I grew up in Moscow, started to play flute and once decided to make it my profession. Took a wrong plane and found myself in Graz, Austria. Started to study here and fell in love with the city and people around me. :)

PHILOSOPHY

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and to be loved in return"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've been surfing quite much and can't wait to have a place where I can host again

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm very grateful, because through Couchsurfing I've met people I probably would never meet without it. I would also never find out how much hospitality, kindness, generosity and friendliness there is in this world.

Interests

Music is a big part of me. It's one of the blessed professions, in which you can not say where a beloved hobby ends and job begins.

I love photography and can spend hours reading something about it, editing pictures or photographing whatever inspires me at the moment. Right now I'm somewhere between learning, earning some money photographing every now and then and trying to become a professional. Here you can see some of my pictures: https://www.facebook.com/sunflowerwine

My friends and people I meet are very important to me. They know how I can remember all details of some ordinary conversation for years or remind them something that even they forgot about themselfs. I think, that's how you can say what really matters to you.

I like to read a lot, but do my best not to be only a girl on a couch with a book in her hands - I'm a lazy beginner in sport, not a hopeless one though. :)

To talk about myself is not one of my interest, but after some experience in Couchsurfing I realised that feeling this in makes it easier to have something more than just a small-talk with your host/surfer.

Music, Movies, and Books

The Beatles is always there. Everything else changes depending on what I feel like listening in particular life phases. Sergei Prokofiev is my favorite in classical music world, though I mostly go to live concerts to hear orchestral and instrumental music. On my ipod you'd probably find someone like Bryan Adams, Glen Hansard, Regina Spektor, some 90s and couple of soundtracks.

"Stand by me" by Rob Reiner, Quentin Tarantino's movies, "What's eating Gilbert Grape", "Back to the Future", "The Return" ("Vozvrasheniye"), "Cafe De Flore" and many-many more - I love talking about movies and watch them very regularly.

"Dandelion Wine" by Ray Bradbury!, "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak, "Humiliated and Insulted" by Dostoyevsky (and generally russian classics), Mikhail Shishkin, "Catcher in the rye" by J.D. Salinger

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Playing flute with an open brain (literally)
- Sunrise on Mount Moses
- Few days and nights in a desert
- First steps after a month in bed
- Moving to another countries not knowing a single person there
- My brother's wedding. It was really amazing!
- A magic weekend in Lyon
- Seeing a falling comet
- Playing on the street in different countries

Teach, Learn, Share

I think I have a lot to tell and I also can be a good listener. As a host I give as much as I can and treat surfers as good friends.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories, food, experience

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Russian Federation, United States