I spend my days at the university of Turku writing on a PhD dissertation about loanverbs in Russian.
Fond of languages, native (I'm Swedish) as well as foreign. You can contact me in any Scandinavian language, English, German, Russian, Ukrainian or Finnish.
Food: vegetarian (lacto-ovo), very cautious with alcohol

Other things: violinist, cyclist, atheist, ISTJ personality, drinker of tea, lover of science and literature, user of old-style button cell phone (I'm NOT going to buy a smartphone), reader of books and magazines in many languages

Interests

• literature
• classical music
• country music
• folk music
• jazz
• cycling
• hiking
• dialects
• history
• philosophy
• cinema
• tea
• learning new languages
• cross-country skiing
• foreign languages
• train travel
• old movies
• nature walks
• grammar
• old maps
• arthouse
• slavic languages
• tour skating

Music, Movies, and Books

Film: Andrey Tarkovsky, Werner Herzog, Ruben Östlund, Andrey Zviagintsev
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich, Led Zeppelin, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Django Reinhardt, folk music from all over the world ....
Literature: Nikolay Gogol, Svetlana Aleksievich, Vilhelm Moberg, Torgny Lindgren, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I like things that are new to me and make me feel "wow, I didn't know music/film/writing could be done like this!"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I won the first prize (ten lottery tickets) in a competition arranged by a local newspaper in 2003. The task was to guess what the result of the Swedish euro referendum would be, and, 15 years old, I came closer than anybody.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Mattress, bed linen, washing and cleaning facilities, tea in the evening and in the morning

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russian Federation, Scotland, Switzerland, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Norway, Sweden