ABOUT ME

Intrepid energizer bunny, loving to explore new places, meet new people... Hold on. Aren't we all? Okay...

I was born in what is now Ukraine, grew up in Russia and now live in the US.

I used to call myself a computer geek, but then I quickly dropped that when I saw the real ones:-) Now I like to say that my occupation doesn't define me - it gives me passion and money to fuel other things I love to do.

I've recently finished my 1yr off-work where I traveled around the globe and have done a lot of things that I would never have enough vacation time for, like a 10-day meditation course and helping to put together a camp and art car at Burning Man.

PHILOSOPHY

Love to challenge yourself, your opinions and even beliefs and values - you will learn a lot about yourself and others in the process of that. It may be unpleasant and testing for your relationships with others, but never boring.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I don't have time for leisure travel now, so I'm guessing I should bring travel to where I am at and make the most of my business travels.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None so far. I've been using AirBnB a lot, but never couchsurfed - was too unpredictable in planning and lazy to fill out all the profile details. I hosted once, and it was great.

兴趣

Indie travel

• arts
• photography
• burningman
• dancing
• salsa dancing
• tango
• meditation
• traveling
• bouldering
• camping
• skydiving
• snowboarding
• rock climbing
• tantra
• zouk

音乐、电影和书籍

Music: psy-trance (Shpongle), chill, folk-rock.
Non-fiction: psychology.
Fiction: Vonnegut, Hemmingway, Russian authors.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Worked for 6 months in Beijing.
Flew through a hula hoop at 9000 feet above the ground.
Burning Man.
Looked for mountain gorillas in Uganda.
Swam around petrified trees in a halocline cloud of a water-filled cave.
Manta rays doing circles above my head.

教，学，和分享

I can teach you
- fire staff spinning
- meditation
- rock climbing
- social dancing: zouk, salsa, tango
- Russian

我游览过的国家

Belgium, Belize, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Guatemala, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Poland, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

我居住过的国家

China, Russian Federation, United States