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Overview

  • 83 references 58 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Russian; learning Czech, English, Karelian, Polish
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • theatre
  • political scientist (but I hate politics)
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Generally, I'm a socialized wallflower, often odd, sometimes little crazy and a bit lazy. I'm relaxed and speak slow but often a lot. I wear glasses, try to cover my body with tattooes and have a terribly unruly wavy hair. I enjoy going barefoot at home and smile, try to compose ambient music, sometimes meditate at beach, ride my bicycle and smoke a hookah in a good company. I bet that you say that I'm nerdy and geeky. Maybe it's true but I am who I am and I do what I wanna do.

I'm a dreamer (hahaha, but I'm not the only one as John Lennon sings). I enjoy walking in the rain, watching stars and counting them, smiling at passers-by for no reason, listening silence in deep forest, talking all night long in the dark kitchen or near campfire, jamming with my friends, having silent conversations (no words cause there's no need), stoping time with my analog cameras and etc.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I wanna host and be hosted. I wanna listen to your stories and tell you mine. Wanna share with people around my emotions, impressions and get touched with your ones.

All the experiences I had so far were so different from each other but super great. I've been surfed many times by friends and strangers alike I just enjoy the energy which meeting people brings.

Interests

Lomography and analog cameras. Coffee, ice-cream and milk chocolate. Nature and small cities. Bicycles and long, really long walks. Hand-made and flea-markets. Night-talking and midnight streets. Scandinavia and green summer fields. Music and strange music instruments. Architecture and urban planning. Linguistics, literature and indie movies.

I have many hobbies but when I feel laziness I just count flowers on the wall 8)

  • arts
  • literature
  • architecture
  • chocolate
  • coffee
  • walking
  • movies
  • music
  • parks
  • nature
  • linguistics
  • urban planning
  • scandinavia
  • analog photography
  • bicycles
  • slavic languages

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm a music addict. I walk with music, eat with the music, wake up and sleep with music, work with music. I do everything with music. It is my shadow. And when my mp3-player runs down or I forget it at home - it is a tragedy for me and pledge of spoiled mood. I can not live without music. Without it I'll just die. I'm really music maniac 8)

I grew up in musical family on songs of Joy Division, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Deep Purple, Bob Marley and Janis Joplin. Now I listen to different kind of it from jazz and french chanson to hardcore and classic rock but if to be honest I'm in love with post-rock, shoegazing, dreampop, trip-hop and chill electronic. (http://www.lastfm.ru/user/sniperok).

Also I watch psychological drama, thrillers and read non-fiction and classical literature (Camus, Harms, Dostoevsky, Lovecraft, Paasilinna, Reymont, Hesse, Steinbeck, Kesey, Hamsun and so on).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Breathing, kicking, talking, crying, laughing... Being alive is the most amazing thing I've done.

Teach, Learn, Share

If I could teach the world one thing is to never forget the passion you put into every second of your life as a child.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Finland, Norway, Russian Federation

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