Hey! I`m Alena, originally from Russia, Vladimir, but right now I am in the U.S. as an exchange student. Though I am majoring in teaching back in Russia, here I study marketing and business.

Interests

• photography
• concerts
• dancing
• movies
• reading
• music
• sports
• languages
• meeting new people
• cooking and baking

Music, Movies, and Books

I`m a music lover but what I listen to always depends on my mood. There`re songs of all genres on my playlist. For exaple, I enjoy listening to:

• Machine Gun Kelly
• Imagine Dragons
• Panic! At the Disco
• Nothing But Thieves
• Ed Sheeran
• Kodaline
• Sum 41
• Bring Me The Horizon
• My Chemical Romance
• Yungblud
and many others

I don`t have a lot of time for reading books which I want as I usually read a few for my English classes. Anyway, my favourite books are:

• "All the Light We Cannot See " by Anthony Doerr
• “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight ( I`m fond of such kind of books)

I`m a big fan of dramas and films based on true stories. They usually have interesting story lines and after watching they leave me thinking about important things. Though I don`t like horror movies . They are boring and not scary at all.

• The Notebook
• Into The Wild
• The Theory Of Everything
• A Walk to Remember
• Unbroken
• Atonement

As for TV shows, Friends and Sherlock are my favourites.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Won a scholarship so now I’m studying in the US.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Share information about Russia
Have a good conversation
Some Russian food :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Hungary, Latvia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United States