CURRENT MISSION

There's notning sexier than enthusiasm

ABOUT ME

I work with numbers but I long for people. For those who leave footprints in the heart, who don't pretend to be something they are not, who see life in colours that they can show to others.

25 random facts about me:
1) My name's Daryana, not Daria. They both mean 'winner' but Daryana is rare :) You can call me Dasha for short.
2) I'm a kinesthetic... if I'm trying to touch you it means I like you.
4) The most important thing Mom has taught me is my optimism. I am always asked if I can be sad or angry
5) I can be sad or angry
6a) My Mom is the most gorgeous woman I know
6b) One thing that The Most Gorgeous Woman has forgotten to teach me is that not everyone has to love me. No, really?
7) I believe that the two most serious problems people have are: 1. not saying aloud what they think and feel and 2. not listening to each other
8) One of my goals is to learn the two things above. Another one is to learn foreign languages - for no particular purpose, they just add colors to life. I'm struggling with Italian and am forgetting Romanian right now.
9) My favourite time of the day is between 11pm and 3am, it's the peak of my inspiration :) However I love my work so much that I often put up with being there by 6 am.
10) I prefer a company of 2-3 people/a concert to a party/disco
11) I believe the first impression is right in most cases
12) I easily fall: in love, out of love and under the influence of other people
13) I can't tell the difference between love and friendship because the latter is a very strong word for me
14) I like surprises when I don't know they're coming. I'm awfully impatient and very Gemini'sh
15) I think black people are attractive
16a) The sexiest things for a man are: driving, cooking and playing with children
16b) The sexiest man happens to be my husband :)
17) My bad habit is listening to one song until it makes me nauseous or until people around start threatening me. I also used to have smoking listed here as a bad habit but then I quit so now I have to think about something else to put here :)
18) My epic laziness and leaving everything until the last moment is my third bad habit - but see # 7
19) I like the Russian people but I'm more patriotic about my city than about my country.
20) I hate jokes about bears, vodka and communists.
As well as the question 'How to say ____ in Russian' followed by 'Oh, I will never remember it' Grrrrr
21) I prefer beer to 'girly' cocktails
22) I'd rather spend money on a new device or a book than on make-up.
23) Because I believe in natural beauty.
24) I also believe in God but he has nothing to do with churches or religions
25) I'm anti-talented but that doesn't stop me from singing all the time. Luckily... see # 7 (:

PHILOSOPHY

1. Happiness is only real when shared
2. The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

To my great surprise my lovely newlywed husband managed to redirect all of my attention and enegry from CS to home, so in these days I'm mostly sandwiched between work and family. However I'm trying to involve him into CS activities to make a come-back, this time together :)

Interests

Learning to live, volunteering, who am I?, strange coincidences, paper letters, unusual people, smiling until cheeks hurt, summer, street musicians, stormy weather, huge dogs, hair fading in the sun, body language, crossroads, urbandictionary

• dogs
• books
• singing
• beauty
• concerts
• cooking
• beer
• cocktails
• partying
• olympics
• languages
• religion
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC.

I always have my ipod with me and I suffer when I get bored with all my music. I can listen to pretty anything (not a fan of electronic music though) but when I hear two-part singing I'm hypnotized like a rabbit by a python.

Gianna Nannini (and the rest of old Italians), Negramaro, Anouk, Sade, Kings of Leon, The Killers, The Kooks, The Fratellis, Okean Elzy, Brainstorm, Country music, Reamonn, Zemfira, Train, Peter Nalitch etc etc

MOVIES

Once, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Into the Wild, Love Me If You Dare, Shutter Island, Investigating Sex, La Meglio Gioventu', La finestra di fronte, 5 cm per Second, The Secret Life of Words, Prime, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Meet Joe Black, Amelie, The Butterfly Effect, Final Destination, 7 Pounds, Kill Bill, Howl's Moving Castle, The Chorus, Pretty Woman

BOOKS

Mikhail Bulgakov, Ken Kesey, Arthur Hailey, Truman Capote, Douglas Coupland, Chuck Palahniuk, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Jane Austen, Joseph Brodskiy, Carlos Castaneda, Mariam Petrosyan, Malcolm Gladwell, Dictionaries, Guidebooks, E-books, Notebooks (:

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Noticing that the Universe constantly hears me;
- finding amazing friends along the way,
- singing my lungs out with some street musicians in France
- squatting for a couple of weeks at a former military fort in Rome,
- volunteering with 60 other people in Iceland in winter
- working for the Sochi Olympics-2014

Teach, Learn, Share

Every single person we meet on our way teaches and changes us a little. Which is beautiful

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Palestine, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation

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