Hi everyone! My name is Ann, I've been living on my own here in Saint Petersburg since 2012 when I had finally moved into this fascinating city from the south of Russia. I am fond of unexpected travelling, little adventures, meeting new people, visiting new places, getting fresh impressions and practicing my English :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

In 2015 I decided to discover Europe so I would like to make friends and acquaintances from all over it. I firmly beleive that it is better to see a place through the eyes of its inhabitants ;)

Interests

Self-improvement, travelling, roofing, dancing (11 years of experience), listening to good music, watching good movies, reading A LOT, writing stories, studying languages

• pets
• dancing
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• linguistics
• climbing high places

Music, Movies, and Books

*Music*
Russian rock (Spleen, Nochnye Snajpery, Zemfira and so on), The Pretty Reckless, Muse, Paramore, Deftones, Massive Attack, Nirvana, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, NDH (OOMPH!, Megaherz etc.), drum'n'bass / dubstep.

*Movies*
I just love scary thrilers ("Would you rather", "Final destinations", "Paranormal activities", "The saw", "Insidious", "Mama", "Rec", "The ring", "The grudge", "Cube 2: Hypercube" etc.), then "Secretary", "The Devil's advocate", "The silence of the lambs", "Mr. Nobody", "Cloud altas", "Equilibrium", "Prestige", "Generation P", "The wolf of Wall street", "The green mile", "Don Juan de Marco", "Match Point", "The Pianist", "Schindler's list", "Dangerous liaisons", "Keinohrhasen", "One flew over the cuckoo's nest", "Inside Llewyn Davis"... and two times as many :)

*Books*
"Harry Potter", "The Moomins", "The little prince", "Alice in Wonderland", "Lolita", "To kill a mockingbird", "Dandelion wine", anti-uthopias ("1984", "We", "Farenheit 451", "Brave new world"), Stephen King ("It", "The dark tower", "Under the dome"), "The catcher in the rye", "Flowers for Algernon", "Till we have faces", "Sculptor's daughter", "Altas shrugged", "Of human bondage", "Vipers' Tangle", "Theseus", "Orlando" and "The waves" by V.Woolf, "Lady Chatterley's lover", "The seducer's diary", Henry Miller ("Tropic of Cancer", "Tropic of Capricorn", "Black spring", "The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder", "Under the Roofs of Paris", "Sexus"), William Golding ("Darkness visible", "The spire", "Free fall", "The god scorpion"), Cortázar's stories etc. There are also many Russian books, but they are mostly little-known abroad)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

There was definitely more than one :) Flew on a flex-wing trike, watched the Scarlet Sails celebration from a roof, personally got Dero's and Arbenina's autographs at their concerts, made tattoos, took a shower under 90 m waterfall, walked on ice of the frozen gulf, danced under the pouring rain in Gorky Park, rode a horse through the winter forest, swam with a dolphin, pet a tiger, a lionet and a bear cub, suddenly went on a two-week's cruise up and down the Volga River, explored Karakol lakes on foot (and hardly survived), "swinged over the edge" in Amsterdam in 100m above the ground... so many stories)))

What I Can Share with Hosts

My invincible optimism, of course ^_-
Also almost any type of housework, cooking, babysitting, teaching you some Russian language, nice dancing moves and acoustic guitar basics :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation