! Please, DON'T add me as a friend if we didn't meet in person! I don't use CS as Facebook :)

Interests

• horses
• books
• photography
• folk dancing
• board games
• traveling
• guitar
• piano
• international relations
• languages
• ukulele
• dance
• contemporary dance
• handcraft
• fire spinning
• poing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Animal Джаz, Zero People, Мельница, Би-2, Мумий Тролль, Brainstorm, Estas Tonne

Books: Milan Kundera "Unbearable lightness of being", "The Joke", "Immortality", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", Dan Millman "Way of the Peaceful Warrior", Mikhail Bulgakov "Master and Margarita", German Gesse "Siddhartha", Tove  Jansson and the world of Moomin (yaay, forever 7), Richard  Feynman "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", Михаил Зыгарь "Вся кремлевская рать", Kurt Vonnegut "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine", "A Man Without a Country", Markus  Zusak "The Book Thief", George Orwell "1984", "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story", John  Fowles "The Collectioner", Jonathan Foer "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close", Анатолий Брусникин "Девятный Спас", Maria Parr "Waffle Hearts", Margaret Mitchell "Gone with the Wind", Андрей Белянин "Меч без Имени", J. K. Rowling "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (yeap, Harry-world :D)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Performed in the Kremlin
Tried firewalking and walking on broken glass
Did fire spinning
Spent a week in the middle of nowhere (ok, that was youth project near Novgorod, but we could have no other name for the place :D)
Amazingly stupid - went to 2-weeks trip with 19-kilo backpack. No, there was no tent. No, I have no idea what it was :D

Teach, Learn, Share

My 2018 plans included a promise to myself to try hitchhiking, but they failed, so would be glad to hear about your experience and get useful advice for 2019 :D

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can play enormously many (2) songs for you on piano and teach you one song for 3 people and some funny scout clap songs I grabbed from international youth projects (the only problem is that we sang it for 3 hours while I was taught so my friends can't hear it anymore and need to refresh my memory :D)

Share my travel-stories and Russian-university-student ones - don't really know which are harder to believe.

Unexpectedly for myself, got involved in numerous folk activities, so I can sing Karelian songs (warning: VERY strange) and show your moves for a typical Russian dance so you will be a super-star of ethno-parties
As for a dance, there is also an option for contact improvisation and some other styles - would be so nice to exchange!

I can hum with guitar or ukulele in my hands, but so far I've pretty much stucked at the same starting point so, may be, it somehow looks more as a request - just in case you are good at it and you love to teach (as a fact) or just have nothing to do, please, think of teaching me to play as I've been craving to learn more for a while and still too lazy to start =\ (shame on me!)

Can teach you the very basic poing (fire show) (but really basic)

Will be glad to get your advice on your favourite books/music/movies and share mine

Can show how to make an Indian mandala

Will be the most attentive and grateful listener - stories are my true passion!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation