Hi! Welcome to my CS page!

Call me Dima, which is short from Dmytro. Yes, Ukrainin language is strange🙂 I was born and grow up in Kyiv, Ukraine. My first international experience was AIESEC Global Citizen Internship in Algeria in summer 2015. Ever since, I regularly do volunteering, studying abroad and traveling to a different place.

Two years ago I have done the trip around the globe on the ship MV World Odyssey during the program Semester at Sea. We sailed from Europe down to South Africa, then Asia and finished in North America. We were studying normal university classes on the ship while traveling to different countries to receive a global perspective of the world. At this moment you should say WOW!!! Thanks.

I studied in five countries, was kicked out of the Ukrainian university twice and finally graduated in summer 2019. Then in September, I came back on Semester at Sea as a post grad student and this time we sailed from Europe to Africa, Latin America, through the Panama Canal to the Pacific side of Latin America, Ecuador!!! and to North America. I fell in love with Ecuador and decided to live here for a few months.

I'm happy to meet locals in Quito to learn about your country or guests of the city to tell what fascinates me in Ecuador so much.
Whatsapp +380957051543
Ecuadorian number +593990396759

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

CS is a wonderful opportunity to travel. Everything is about seeing the world and meeting people.

Thanks a lot for all of my friends and hosts:
Veronika (Ukraine, Lviv)
Alex (Ukraine, Cherkasu)
Evgenii (Ukraine, Odesa)
Billal (Algers, Algeria)
Wassim (Oran, Algeria)
Amine (Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria)
Ashraf (Bejaia, Algeria)
Adel (Alicante, Spain)
Gerardo (Barcelona)
Sune, 73 year! (Céret, France)
Cécile and Bienvenu (France)
Sarah (Orlean, France)
Mark (Tours, France)
Geoffroy Belgium
Joeri Belgium
Niels Belgium
Hans Netherlands
Patrick Netherlands
Igor Ukraine
Anja and Kyra Köln
Katya Basel
Barbara Czenstohowa
Jakub Prague
Sagar Germany
Yuto Japan

I hosted:
Alex and Julia from Ukraine
Josip from Croatia
Body and Nastia from Poland/Ukraine

Interests

Hiking, caving, cooking, business, health, biographies of famous personalities.

As my 74 years old professor like to say, the first rule of traveling "Never let your age get bigger than the number of country you visited".

Music, Movies, and Books

Kung Fu Panda, Peaceful Warrior, Napoleon Hill, "21 laws of leadership" by John Maxwell, Scarlet Sails by Alexander Grin, Elon Musk.

I listen music in the language I'm currently learning. At this moment Spanish songs. Please, advise some Spanish music with clear understandable voice, like Frank Sinatra in English:)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The trip around the world.

Circumnavigating the globe took me 150 days and 70,000 km. The biggest part of the trip I studied on the ship MV World Odyssey on the program called Semester at Sea. It was a floating university. We sailed 106 days to eleven countries. We had classes on the ship and field programs in countries. We studied global perspective to receive a brief picture of the world culture interdependence.

On the evry day I signed up in CS, I've got a dream to write "The trip around the world" in this section:)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you the secret how to cross the road in Viet Nam and how to escape from the angry painter who want to beat you in Ghana.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cook a delicious dinner. I will try to bring some sweets, souvenirs or postcard from another country. I can help to do some work at home

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, India, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Algeria, Ecuador, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine, United States