Here's what others are saying about me:

* "He will be therapeutic for your soul, just by his presence and irradiated bliss." (c) Giorgio, Italy.
* "He is a geniune and lovely person whom you should surely try to meet." (c) Jenny, USA.
* "He's magic!" (c) Vadim, Belarus.

I’ve recently moved to 🇨🇭 escaping the armed conflict in Ukraine, after living 9 years in Kyiv. Now settling in a new place, looking around. Professionally, I’m a simultaneous interpreter, consecutive interpreter, translator, editor, proofreader working with English, Russian, and Ukrainian.

My IG: https://www.instagram.com/quartalnyi/ with story highlights of beautiful places for you to discover. :)

*** CURRENT MISSION ***

To feel alive, free and happy. To love. And continue building the Creative Society https://creativesociety.com/

*** PHILOSOPHY ***

* Love is all you need! http://goo.gl/gLIV17

* I'm at home wherever I am... (c) Rumi.

* Only he who walks towards the light will come out of the darkness. (c) Rigden Djapo.

* On ne voit bien qu'avec le coe“ur. (c) Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

* 'What's your favourite language?' 'The language of the heart...'

* Peace should first of all be inside you. (c) Sensei

* My life is my message. / Be the change you want to see in the world. (c) Mahatma Gandhi.

* Without going outside, you may know the whole world... (c) Laozi.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

*** HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING ***

I surf and with so many positive experiences I always host whenever I can. I invited couchsurfers to a local newspaper to give an interview about the project and spread the word. I attend and organise CS gatherings, play board games. Once, I even escaped a war with a couchsurfer.

*** COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE ***

From the -34C of the Russian Arctic to the +47C of the Syrian desert it has been very good.

Interests

I'm curious about the world, life and people.

• cats
• books
• poetry
• photography
• vegetarian
• running
• meditation
• gardening
• flowers
• music
• hiking
• martial arts
• languages
• philosophy
• hitchhiking
• marketing
• climbing
• marathons
• it
• volunteer
• clouds
• linux
• sunrise
• positive thinking
• translation
• synchronicity
• interpreting
• eco
• beards
• belarus
• fasting
• here and now
• lotus flower

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite Music:

Akvarium, Akute, Karine Polwart, Jethro Tull, Lumen, Radiohead, Joni Mitchell, Bell X1, Tracy Chapman, Taylor Swift, Loreen, Honor By August, KAN, Anais Mitchell, Lyapis Trubetskoi, Jason Blaine, Pablo Alboran, Aerostat.

Favourite Films:

the Matrix, Into the Wild, Monty Python's Life of Brian, the Lord of the Rings, Im Juli, Contracorriente, Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972), Giuseppe Moscati - L'amore che guarisce, October Sky, The Shack (2017)... More movies: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls021677723/

Favourite Books:

Harry Potter by JKR, Tales of Hodja Nasreddin by Solovyev, Tao Te Ching, Sensei of Shambala by A. Novykh, Eckhart Tolle, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, the Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, A Liar's Autobiography by Graham Chapman, The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis, 1984 by George Orwell, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe, AllatRa... More books: https://goodreads.com/quartalny

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

* volunteered to build the Creative Society;
* hitch-hiked 6000 km to lake Baikal in 6 days;
* dry fasted for 7.7 days;
* walked el Camino de Santiago;
* saw the sun rise...

Teach, Learn, Share

Happy to share language learning tips, experiences of life, any information of interest from the books I read and courses I take.

Always open to learn about cooking healthy vegetarian meals, fitness and others.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belarus, Canada, Jordan, Switzerland, Ukraine

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