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Overview

  • 24 references 16 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian; learning German, Italian
  • 41, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • translator, interpreter (En-Ru)
  • higher, Pedagogical university, degree in philology
  • From Saint-Petersburg
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

finding more people, frieds from different countries, sharing experience, travel, find hosts

ABOUT ME

Oh, I can't tell everything about me. In a few words: I'm laughable, lively, people say I have positive energetics. I love traveling, dancing and knowing different languages! Actually, I seem a bit chaotic to some people - that's because I love so many things and want to see and know so much...
And I look pretty much younger than I am)))

PHILOSOPHY

If for a moment God would forget
that I am a rag doll and give me a
scrap of life, possibly I would not
say everything that I think, but I
would definitely think everything that
I say.

I would value things not for how
much they are worth but rather for
what they mean.

I would sleep little, dream more. I
know that for each minute that we
close our eyes we lose sixty seconds
of light.

I would walk when the others loiter; I
would awaken when the others sleep.

I would listen when the others speak,
and how I would enjoy a good
chocolate ice cream.

If God would bestow on me a scrap of
life, I would dress simply, I would
throw myself flat under the sun,
exposing not only my body but also
my soul.

My God, if I had a heart, I would
write my hatred on ice and wait for
the sun to come out. With a dream of
Van Gogh I would paint on the stars
a poem by Benedetti, and a song by
Serrat would be my serenade to the
moon.

I wouldn't let a single day go by
without saying to people I love, that
I love them.

I would convince each woman or man
that they are my favourites and I
would live in love with love.

I would prove to the men how
mistaken they are in thinking that
they no longer fall in love when they
grow old--not knowing that they grow
old when they stop falling in love. To
a child I would give wings, but I
would let him learn how to fly by
himself. To the old I would teach that
death comes not with old age but
with forgetting.....

(from Garcia Marquez. Farewell to His Friends. translated by Matthew Taylor and Rosa Arelis
Taylor)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted a few people and have stayed at with wonderful hosts in Italy, Poland, Finland, UK, Portugal, France, the Neterlands. And met wonderful hosts and meravigliosi people in everywhere! Surely surfing is the way to truely see life as it is, not through the "looking glass" of usual tourists's routes. And hosting is a great way to travel staying at home.
I've only had extremely positive experiences with CS :)))

Interests

dancing, reading, traveling, off-roading, hitch-hiking, learning languages (at least true arabic numbers or alphabets or pronunciation rules).

COOKsurfing (see http://www.couchsurfing.com/group_read.html?gid=228&post=1700352 )

El Camino - one day, maybe soon, I will do it! Happy to hear any El Camino stories!)

  • concerts
  • dancing
  • chocolate
  • flying
  • off-roading
  • reading
  • traveling
  • painting
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • languages
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

music - Pink Floyd, the Doors and all good classic old rock, all latino rythms and everything that fits into a notion of "good music" (quite diverse, as it is Nina Simone, Kusturitsa,
Books - ok, give me a few ... days and I will give you an answer.
My friend's books.
Recently - The Way, great movie!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

polar day at Arctic Russia! Sunshine at 12.00 am on the top of Khibiny nountains!!
Il Coloseo!
Venezia - that is just the different world!
Been to the Ozzy's concert! Isn't it amazing!)))

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach you how to make a mess, for example... ("Useless!" as someone likes to describe me))
Would love to learn languages, more languages! Italian at the moment!
Share my beliefs and opinions...my interest and love of life... e la vita la mia...

Countries I’ve Visited

Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, India, Italy, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation

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