Hello, my name is Anya

I am 32 y.o., about to start my Master studies in University of Bonn, Agricultural and Food Economics. I am from the Republic of Sakha, the coldest living region on Earth.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meet great people, learn about new places and cultures

Interests

I like food (eating mostly, but learning to cook slowly), all things sustainability, moss, arctic, snow. My current craft project - I am upcycling Kinder chockolate wraps into 1000+ origami cranes. I've learned a litle how to play Kendama. I really like to play board games.

• board games
• reading
• origami
• hiking
• swimming
• ecology
• science
• food
• english
• space
• social entrepreneurship

Music, Movies, and Books

Listen a lot of music genres - mostly jazz, soul, indie pop, indie or alternative rock, electronic music. My favorite music bands and singers are One Ok Rock, Maroon 5, ONUKA, Sirotkin
Favorite writors - Bernard Verber, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury
Favorite TV series - How I Met Your Mother, Twin Peaks, Sex in the City, Firefly, Caprica, Battlestar Galactica, Star Gate, StarTrek, Doctor Who.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelled

Grew up in a small town in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), near the Arctic Circle, 🌌 where the sky is low, there are northern lights and moss. Finished school in Yakutsk, university in Novosibirsk, grew a prefontal cortex and left a part of myself in St. Petersburg, unblocked anger and learned to love money in Moscow, got sick and treated my mental illness back in Novosibirsk, chilled with my family and fed mosquitoes and midges in Yakutsk.

I also learned about UX analytics in Austin, Texas (USA), was shocked by typhoons and walked knee-deep in water in Manila (Philippines), watched cows engage in cannibalism and eat beef sausage on Olkhon, gorged on pljeskavica and got drunk on plum rakia in Serbia, hung out in mosques in Cairo, ran away from large meat-eating wasps in Tashkent, and returned a lost camera in broken English in Beijing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Travelling stories, tea, attentive ear, clean, polite, respectful and quite stay

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Egypt, Philippines, Serbia, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation