Boring vital stuff:
– working for the Ukrainian part of the Open Society Foundations network as a communications coordinator;
– was involved in a book & cultural journalism, charity, digital marketing. Now I combine the Uni study with a work for NGO which is promoting clean tech, green energy and, of course, bright future :);
– try to make each "away-from-keyboard-experience" as intense and vivid as possible (that's why I'm here).
Not that boring stuff:
– dancing type person;
– author of an artistic (to my mind) and weird (to some other people mind:) Instagram profile @ivshnastia;
– still dream about a perfect impactful job;
– still believe in people and want to interact with them more :) ;
– at least twice a week change the topic of my future Ph.D. research (but it will be in social science for sure);

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

As I said, I still believe in people and try to make each "away-from-keyboard-experience" as intense and vivid as possible. The biggest happiness for me is when people host me at their place and when I have a chance to host them.

Interests

So, yes, my interests are quite typical. To tell something more precise, besides job and Uni, most of all I listen to a lot of music, do yoga, read and make photos :)

• graphic design
• photography
• dancing
• yoga
• traveling
• electronic music
• languages
• sustainability
• fine arts
• celery

Music, Movies, and Books

1. Music. Alright, alright, alright.
Nicolas Jaar, yaeji, Nils Frahm, Tyler, The Creator, Kendrick Lamar, Ariel Pink, Luke Abbott, Alice Coltrane, Andy Stott, Frank Ocean, Japanese Breakfast, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Franz Schubert, Leonard Cohen and of course Radiohead.

2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Laurence Anyways, Paterson, and yes Only Lovers Left Alive.

3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Le Spleen de Paris by Charles Baudelaire, poems by William Blake, Ezra Pound, Joseph Brodsky and Osip Mandelshtam.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It was an August evening in Kyiv when together with my friend we bathed in a fountain after an unexpected heavy rain and then went to crowded McDonald's, took coffee and totally wet just sat on the floor. After 10 min of this performance, a McDonald's worker brought us two chairs :)

Teach, Learn, Share

So, I want to dive deeper into:
– digital anthropology;
– fine arts;
– film industry.
And skills I want to acquire:
– web development;
– German and Spanish language;
– hip-hop dancing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

– my humble thoughts on literature, languages, art, social science, and philosophy;
– give clues and context to my weird Instagram;
– a quick or a long virtual tour through Ukrainian reality and insights about Ukrainian soul;
– a workshop in Adobe Creative Suite if needed :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Ukraine