Born in Saint Petersburg, Russian
Now i'm street musician and drum trainer. I'm playing on djembe in ansemble of west african music.

I strive to be helpfull and kind to other people.

I don't drink and smoke, also i'm vegetarian.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like traveling and meet people from other countries. I like learning about their culture and traditions, cusine and habits.

Interests

I'm playng on different kinds of percussion and ethnic instruments african drums, ngoni (africacn harp) and bala (african xilophone), arabic darbouk, udu, dijeridoo, handpans (hang) jew's harp and a little bit blockfute, tin whistle (irish flute)

Also i like cookig various vegetarian food.

I'm learning buddism philosophy and practice, intresting joga and meditation.

• music festivals
• chinese food
• indian food
• vegetarian
• yoga
• meditation
• music
• drums
• hiking
• buddhist
• tourism
• budget travel
• vegetarian food
• buddhism
• wild camping
• jamming
• ethnic music
• ethnic food
• djembe
• drumming
• drum circles

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: World Ethnic, African Drums, Japan drums, Arabic drums, Reaggae, Funk, Ska, Irish Folk, Indi

Movies: Drummer (Zhan Gu 2007), Travellers and Magicians, Imaginarium of Doctor Parnas and many others

Books: History, Documentary, Japanese poetry, Tibetian and Russian and other Folk Tales and epic.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was born.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: music (note grammatic and something about sound), plaing on many kinds of percussion drums, playing digeridoo.

Learn: to speak english well. How to cook some national cusine meal.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My optimism, my hands and cookies!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Scotland, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation