My parents studied Geography, so I traveled since my childhood. I think that visiting other countries can be helpful to understand your own culture. Also it shows your limits and teaches you how to be patient with your friends or strangers.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

I think that there is a cycle. When you are a child you are traveling with your parents so you stay at hotels. Then you begin to travel by your own but because of your parents worries you have to stay at hostels. And you have just few year for traveling without worrying. In those year you are learning from everyone and everywhere. Every stranger could become your lifetime friend or love. Then slowly you begin to stay at hostel, because now you have job and you are traveling more for having a rest, not just for meeting the world. After that you have a family, so you are going on business or family trip and have to stay like an adult at hotel.
I think that now I am living those years of the middle of this cycle and I want to do my best.

Interessen

Mountaineering, climbing, traveling, handcrafts, knitting, reading, learning languages, cinema, history and culture.

• culture
• books
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• knitting
• cycling
• mountaineering
• rock climbing
• business
• geography
• history
• languages
• mountains

Musik, Filme und Bücher

I have read almost all books of Leo Tolstoy and Hesse (some of them in original language - German). I loved Russian, Scandinavian, also some French classics. But now I do not have very much time for reading just for myself and my literature taste has changed a bit. Now I like Kurt Vonnegut, Victor Pelevin, Milan Kundera, Michail Bulgakov.

I like very much to spend my evenings at cinema theater. It feels different than watching a movie at home. Every time in cinema theater for two hours I can live another life. My favorite movies are The Dreamers, La Grande Bellezza, Belle de Jour, Fanny and Alexander.

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

I had go to my prom but I chose three weeks trip to Caucasus mountains from Russian side. We get there by train. That means I have spent four days on the road in a train, but for me it was quite romantic. It reminded me some Russian classic books. By the time I was reading Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (the protagonist is traveling through Caucasus mountains).

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

Germany, Italy, Lithuania