Hi, my name is Katerina or simply Katya. I was born in St. Petersburg, however, I love to travel around the world and feel deeply happy about it. Nevertheless, I love my native city very much, at the moment I can't imagine myself to live my whole life in it, therefore I can't stop exploring the World and believe to find my place someday.

I love people and always happy to meet new friends. I believe we are (as people) are born not for a simple things, but for something special to do in the life. I love to help people and have opportunity to be able to do the things which will make positive changes in any field. I do believe that people are strong and could hold the world in a positive way.

For whole my life I am doing dance and sports. I used to dance ballet since I was 6, however, at 13 got injured and had to stop dancing. Having passion for moving and expressing myself I decided to continue with synchronized swimming. It was very hard as at 13 I didn't swim at all and had to start from the very beginning. However, after 3 years of just learning the technique I had opportunity to be placed in the team for performing routine. In total I had been doing synchronized swimming for 7 years, completing with a group and solo routine. When I was 20 I had to quit synchronized swimming because of the age (this is a young sport). This was very hard but happy time with a lot of barriers to overcome. At 21 I started to explore hip hop dance as a completely new direction for me. It was an amazing experience which gave me a lot for my life's vision as well as brought me very good friends with whom I am in contact untill now.

In my professional life I used to work for 8 years for a company as a head of purchasing department. However, at someday I realized I want to change my life completely and to be involved into the sport sphere. I was lucky to got a job on the Winter Olympic Games 2014 as the international dignitary programme manager (protocol department). Starting that day and until now I am working in the field of sport. My recent projects are FIFA World Cup 2018, Confederations Cup 2017, UEFA Europe League 2017-2018, Formula One Russian Grand Prix.

Also, I love to teach and had experience as a synchronized swimming teacher for children. I believe that someday I had opportunity to teach ballet and may be this become my future profession as I enjoy it a lot.

I live in a healthy style, don't smoke and drink (it could be not more than a glass of wine very rare with my family/friends). I don't eat meat, however, eat fish and never speak about this or tell anyone to do so as I think this is the personal choice of anyone, just only when someone ask me about it. In Russia I have big family with incredible parents, 2 brothers and 2 nieces.

I am always happy to tell you more about myself, so please, just ask me if you have any questions.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To have opportunity to meet new friends, to share

Interests

Ballet, dance, sport, swimming, synchronized swimming, sculpturing, art, traveling, photography, meeting new people, to learn the art of life and be a good person.

• traveling
• surfing
• swimming
• art
• ballet
• sport
• dance
• meeting new people
• sculpturing
• synchronized swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Any sort of music and movies which inspires me; Favourite writer R. Bradbury

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Used to work on the Winter Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi, Formula One Russian Grand Prix, FIFA World Cup 2018.
I am a candidate to the master of sport in synchronized swimming.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to share any knowledge I have and passionate to learn new

What I Can Share with Hosts

Teach ballet, synchronized swimming, my positive attitude, humble personality, respect host rules, be a good listener and companion

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Lebanon, Maldives, Netherlands, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece