CURRENT MISSION

Live life to the fullest.

ABOUT ME

I'm currently a student at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota and my major is Russian Studies. I like to spend time with the people I care about. I have a longing to experience new things (cultures, places, etc). I am a very outgoing person and love meeting new people! I am a very music-oriented person. I studied abroad in St. Petersburg, Russia from September 2010 to June 2011.

PHILOSOPHY

My motto here in Russia is: Бывает. Or 'It happens.'
I have also learned that you need to live life for yourself and not others to be truly happy. :)

Interests

Music, languages, photography, traveling, laughing, meeting new people, being adventurous, learning, people watching, Russia.

• photography
• traveling
• music
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

There are way too many to name! To name a few....
-Films: A Clockwork Orange, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Indiana Jones films (except Crystal Skull), 007 films, films from the 30s, 40s, and 50s, comedy, old-school horror films, thrillers.
-Music: I will listen to almost anything. My least favorite type of music is country western music. I really enjoy Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Chopin. I like techno, house, electro, rock (of all sorts), metal, rap, jazz, etc.
-Books: I really enjoy reading memoirs. Some of my favorite authors include: Oscar Wilde, T.S. Eliot, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, C.S. Lewis, Khaled Hosseini, George Orwell, J.D. Salinger, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Aleksandr Pushkin, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Living in Russia. There are, literally no words to describe how much I loved it.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach English.
I'm open to learning pretty much anything!
I can share the great experience of CouchSurfing with others that I meet through this site!

Countries I’ve Visited

Estonia, Germany, Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United States