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  • 37 references 27 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian, Ukrainian; learning German, Slovene
  • 112, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Researcher
  • PhD in sociology
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

During our last several years we visited around 35-40 countries (counting failed:)). For the last four years we with Ivan (https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/sheasik) were living in Slovenia, several months in Budapest (like any other capital it's not precise Hungary- it's it unified, globalized best:)), before that I experienced life in Warsaw (1 year) and Turkey (0,5 year).
Now our path brought us to very beautiful Prague and we are excited to feel the history that is breathing through each stone.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I participate in both cases (couching and surfing) in only case: when people are truly interesting for me! I understand cases when couchsurfers want to save some money and therefore are writing very poor standard letters just to receive the roof, but I'm afraid those cases will be definitely ignored by me. So please, don't waste your time, even on copy pasting- the about-nothing requests would be declined.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
People are great. Great people are even better.

Interests

Sociology, research, Ukrainian studies, Balkan studies, contemporary literature, yoga, climbing, hiking, Tibetian Buddhism, meditation, parapsychology, super-memory and other postmodern stuff:)

  • writing
  • literature
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • buddhist
  • rock climbing
  • history
  • sociology
  • volunteering
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: documentaries, especially Werner Herzog's, Jarmusch, Woody Allen, Ioseliani, no-one knows this one: "Mastres of stone 5", Samsara.
The list of book is huge and is in the process of continuous replenishment. To take a single book would be too simplified answer:)
Depending on the mood, moon and memories it can be a wild combination of music lists: mix of acid jazz, dubstep, Ukrainian ethno, or throat singing and Arvo Part. Yeah, and of course Mantras.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Spending New Year at the snowy mountains in the tent.
-Traveling in the night from Macedonia to Kosovo alone in a public transport. Yes, I'm full of prejudice.
-Volunteering at Dalai Lama meeting
-PhD:)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine

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