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Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
@alyona-alexandrova
Member since 2014
I want to discover this amazing world! It's a great new experience that allows you to understand yourself and others better. Now I live in Novosibirsk, Russia
Interested in Books & Literature
Interested in Cooking
Fluent in Russian
Learning English
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I stayed in Strasbourg and in Irkutsk (a town in Siberia near Lake Baikal). It was fun and interesting!
Music, Movies, and Books
Music: Chinawoman, Eels, Blonds, Caro Emerald, The Pierces, Beatles, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Gogol Bordello; russian rock (vk.com/madamsattarov) Books: Edward Whittemore, Terry Pratchett, Jasper Fforde, Max Frei, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Bulgakov, Lukyanenko, Gromyko, etc. Films: 8 femmes, The Importance of Being Earnest, Love Actually, The Addams Family, Inconscientes, Glee; all films of Wes Anderson, a lot of films of Woody Allen, Guy Ritchie and Kevin Smith + Firefly and fantastic films
One Amazing Thing I've Done
The most remarkable thing for me was my visit to Vladivostok (I have been dreaming about it since I was 14 years)! Yes, I live in Russia, but it was more expensive to travel around Russia than to go to Europe.
Teach, Learn, Share
I hope I can show people that it’s possible to love reading books! When I was in Russia I was a teacher of philosophy at the university and I also worked in the library. And in France I teach children to speak Russian language and Russian history.
My Interests
It will be very interesting to me know how not to be so lazy. If to be serious there are so many opportunities to learn about interesting things in the modern world that it’s so hard to find something exciting. But I can not stop reading fantasy! And I have realized that I love cooking :) I like to be a guide: a tourist guide or a guide in the world of the Russian language and literature.
