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Overview

  • 22 references 16 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Filmmaker. Traveller. Storyteller.
  • New York University Film School
  • From Manhattan
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Live. Travel. What. Else?

ABOUT ME

I'm an independent writer-traveler-filmmaker from New York City.
I'm twenty-six (and counting).
I've been traveling for the fifteen months - after having gotten my driver's license at the ripe old age of twenty four. I bought an old car and for six months, drove nine-thousand miles around and across the United States.
I even went to Canada.
Afterwards, I left for St. Petersburg, Russia. I was born there. I had been away for ten years and I at last saw all of my aunts and uncles and yes - My Babushka.
I left in July and traveled throughout Europe on my dimes and quarters; I am free - for awhile - of responsibilities. I'm also on hiatus from filmmaking. I would like to walk until I get tired or find somewhere to sit down . . .

. . . because I like to eat in parks on benches.

PHILOSOPHY

No philosophy for now.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've begun to couch-surf as I continue to explore and oggle the place I been borne into.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've enjoyed my first couch-surfing experience in San Antonio last January.
Afterwards, I surfed twice in Poland, and continued to do so in many of the twenty countries that I visited .

Interests

People, Cities, Food . . . Filmmaking, Photography, Writing (words; sentences are hard), Basketball, Cycling, Walking, Butter-Scotch Ice Cream.

  • writing
  • photography
  • film making
  • dining
  • walking
  • traveling
  • cycling
  • surfing
  • basketball
  • parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Books/Writers: Catcher In The Rye, Calvin & Hobbes, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Bukowski, Kundera, Dovlatov.
Films: Annie Hall, Taxi Driver, (70s American Cinema), Lost In Translation, Rush Hour, The Fire Within, Zerkalo, Brother.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

. . . to be continued . . .

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm best at listening although it can be at times, difficult, to listen all the time.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Wonder

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Laos, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russian Federation, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Russian Federation, United States

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