I'm from Ukraine and I love my country. I'm a student of Institute of international relations in Kyiv. People say that I can always find the reason to smile and to be happy and they also wonder where I constantly have so much energy. I'm optimistic person and I tend to be able to find the way to communicate to anybody. I'm quite talkative and people enjoy conversations with me. I can say I try to make every moment of my life special. My favorite quotation of Mark Twain is "Only on the deathbed we realize how little we travelled and how little we loved." I think self-development is the way to success, so I try to do my best to make parents and my friends proud of me!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've heard about this cool thing and I thought it could be a good tool to find new friends and just meet interesting people all over the world! So I registered :)

Interests

Traveling, sports, gym, swimming, windsurfing, snowboarding, dancing (jazz-funk and hip-hop), reading, cinema, music, hanging out with friends, exploring something new, ice-skating etc.

• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• walking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• hiking
• windsurfing
• camping
• snowboarding
• sports
• swimming
• extreme sports
• teaching
• international relations
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm a big fan of music. I can listen to anything that I like, no matter which genre it is. E.g. maroon 5, Adele, Imagine Dragons, Arctic monkeys, Iowa, Phantogram, Mr.Probz, Young rising sons, Ellie Goulding, The Heavy, The Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce, Hucci, Бумбокс, Океан Ельзи, Calvin Harris, Bruno Mars, AC/DC, Pusha, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, Avicii, Lana Del Rey, Lorde, Flo Rida, Иван Дорн, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, The XX, John Newman, Snoop Dogg, N.E.R.D., Muse, Adam Lambert, Aerosmith, Amy Winehouse, Chris Brown, Christina Aguilera, David Guetta, Eminem, Gotye, Rihanna, Iggy Azalea, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Kat Graham, Katy Perry, Kid Cudi, The killers, M.I.A., Macklemore, Michael Jackson etc.
Movies : Friends with benefits; Titanic; Crazy, stupid, love; Gatsby; Inception; Pirates of the Carribean; Harry Potter; The tourist; Avengers etc.
Books : Portrait of Dorian Grey, War and Piece, The Great Gatsby, Think like a freak etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This summer my good american friend George invited me to go to camping with his friends. That was my first experience of camping ever. That was amaaazing. We went to wild camping, so that we saw literally no people. We used a machete to cut out way through, I felt as if I was some kind of amazon woman. We also swam in the virgin-clean river and went hiking. We were at Shanandoah, Virginia, where there are wolves and bears. At night we heard something really big walking in shade through the bushes, and that wasn't a human for sure, because there was no flashlight. We tried to figure out whether we should make a lot of noise to scare it or just sit in the darkness silently. We decided to put out all light and try to be quite. Not everybody managed to fall asleep that night. That was so scary, but at the same time really cool! Fortunately, everybody survived :)

Teach, Learn, Share

I love sports, I used to do ice-skating (6,5 years since I was 2,5 years old) and then swimming (7 years since) professionally, and I can teach anybody. My friends tell me I could make a good teacher. Moreover, I like extreme sports, such as windsurfing, snowboarding etc. I also love learning languages, so I'd be glad to communicate on any of the listed above. And I adore cooking, so recipes-sharing would be cool :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm quite flexible. I guess, first of all food :D , hanging out together and great talks.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ukraine