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Overview

  • 12 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian, Ukrainian; learning French, Latin, Spanish
  • 28, Female
  • Member since 2013
  • photographer, artist, explorer
  • BA history
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About Me

Currently getting MA degree in the US. (Maya culture and anthropology)

ABOUT ME:
I choose adventures that sometimes, though, go too far. Exploring the world whenever there is chance, always hungry for traveling.
This year I made my old dream come true - world tour, that took me just 5 months. Ukraine, Germany, Belgium, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, China, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and back home to Ukraine. Stunning landscapes, amazing and diverse cultures, those are the things that keep me going and staying passionate about the world. I guess that's one of the reasons I chose anthropology.

Passionate about myriad of other things. Photography is one of the things that I am totally addicted too. Art, calligraphy and design.
Another crazy journey I am dreaming about is exploring bunch of islands with indigenous cultures.

Just want to be a know-it-all. Want to know about all kinds of things ancient history, quantum mechanics, neuroscience, philosophy, design, hog futures etc.
Because you never know when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But have faith that it will happen and it will be something incredible.

"Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they are willing to make silly
mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well
that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible; he is able
to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions
without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are."

PHILOSOPHY

You are the creator of your reality, you are the perciever and the life giver to what you believe is possible. You are God making all of this up in your own mind just as I am making a personal note in my own self created universe. We are one and nothing separates us no matter how hard you think we're not.
May seem exaggerated a bit heh, but this is what people love to read because it's inspiring, right? :))

Just enjoy the world around you and let the things pass)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosted and been hosted, wonderful experience all over the world

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Thank you guys that you exist, you are AMAZING!! I am very grateful for my couchsurfing experience, it was often getting me out of some shiit literally. I hope I can return some day all the help I got.
CS people are just great

Interests

photography, minimalism, Buddhism, knowledge, meditation, travelling, music, hiking, hitchhiking, books, art, drawing, weird places, summer, sea, different cultures, Latin America, philosophy, anthropology, methaphisics, ancient history, creativity and creating, deserts.

  • arts
  • books
  • fashion
  • photography
  • festivals
  • boating
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • guitar
  • hiking
  • sports
  • extreme sports
  • anthropology
  • history
  • science
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Richard Bach's books, Carlos Castaneda, Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, Bram Stoker - Count Dracula, Harry Potter books, Umberto Eco, Edgar Poe and many others.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

World tour 5 months!!!!
hitchhiking across Europe 4000 km
living in Buddhist temple to study meditation (to be honest one of the best experiences of my life)
living with Maya and Zapotec people in Mexico
skydiving
being on height 4500 m, and being by the active volcano (Guatemala)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Croatia, France, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Thailand, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Guatemala, Mexico, Spain, Ukraine

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