CURRENT MISSION

Help as many people as I can and make the world better

ABOUT ME

I have a very different mix of cultures in me. I grew up in Kazakhstan, studied in a Russian school, then I went to university in the USA in Computer Science, but I'm very interested in a history of China and Maya. So I'm open minded to new cultures and ideas.

PHILOSOPHY

Work as hard as possible.

A NOTE FROM REVIEW:

There is a negative review from a host (Sam). I can't put full response there, but I will put it here:

"To say that I'm surprised is to say nothing.

- Yes, we agreed that we'll come over at 10.30 PM, but came over a bit later. But we texted before saying that we'll be late and Sam said s/he'll be fine with that. If s/he would say that it is unacceptable, we could cancel our request and stay in hostel.

- Next morning we woke up and waited for Sam's partner (Chris) to show up after work. Right when Chris came in, we had a tea together. I was curious about board games and thought that playing it could be great way to socialiaze. I've put aside my working from home, asked my manager to take a break for an hour. Then I tried to socialiaze with Chris as much as I could till my wife came back from the store. Then my wife spent an hour with both of them.

- We've read in their profile that Sam's partner like to have a beer, so my wife went to a store to buy some beer. She ended up buying a pumpkin pie but nobody had touched it (we still left it at their fridge).

- In the evening we asked if they want to go to a movie theater, but they rejected. We went there ourselves.

- Then after the movie I asked them if they want to play videogames together (they have been playing them before). They responded that we can play by ourselves. Then they brought a nintendo switch to our room and let us play the game. Also in the mid of the game Sam invaded into the room and started complaining about some guy that stole couple videogames from her/him. That was awkward.

- Before we left, we had a tea with Sam's partner. We exchanged with some candies and had pretty nice conversation (or I thought we did).

- So we used every chance that we could to have a conversation and when they locked themselves in the room, we also locked ourselves. We offered them several chances to hang out or to do something together (have tea, play board games, play videogames, go to movie theater, cook and etc.), but they rejected it.

This is very weird for me. I do couchsurfing from 2011 and mostly I was a host. Sometimes we barely even talked to couchsurfers, but that's how couchsufring works. It doesn't always go by happy path, sometimes hosts are tired, sometimes guests are tired, sometimes it doesn't click between them. I'm "okay not to hang out" from time to time.

That's why I think that Sam is wrong."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can host and I'm travelling a lot.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have very good couchsurfing experience. People are friendly and open. They do so much for me, so will I when people come to my city.

Interests

Programming, history, studying, reading, meditation Vipassana.

Music, Movies, and Books

Fight Club, Оборона Царицына, Vivaldi, This Strange Life by Granyn, Black Swan by Taleb.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My first 10-day course on Vipassana meditation, working 18 hour day in Alaska.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can offer 2 or 3 nights at max. I can't accept anyone for longer because I don't live alone.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Singapore, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Kazakhstan, United States