🐨Kate: I was born in Russia and my entire childhood was spent in the Siberian wilderness and hard conditions. I grew up with wolves, fought with bears and caught the Internet using for it a mammoth tusk.
I was a very impressionable child, now I am a grown up Dreamer. The whole story of my life is the story of overcoming my own shortcomings and fears. As a child, I was greatly impressed by the story of Suvorov who, in order to overcome his fear, went to temper in a cemetery and slept on graves. Another impressing story was about Anton Chekhov, who kept a diary where he wrote down his shortcomings and thereby tried to re-educate himself...So did I. I am inspired by fearless, hardworking people.
I like history, archery, hiking in the fields, forests and mountains. I am a dog person, but I've started to like two cats recently C: .I have been inventing my fantasy book since I was 12 years old and I’m almost finish it. I have many relatives, interesting stories, kind and cheerful character.

🦈Alice: Half Polish, half German girl, who was born far away in the northern town. Raised and studied in the Muslim capital of Russia. As a child I graduated from music school as violinist and pianist. I also attended ballet school and chess lessons. But my true passion was botany, biology and medicine in those days.
I have always been passionate about cinema and learning something new.
I can seem to be silent and shy, or even closed and angry, but it's only my face structure and tiredness C:
I collect all sorts of papers and pleasant little things, keep a journal, take pictures, shoot short videos, make plans (really meticulously), grow plants, love my cats and dream of having a lot of animals.
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WE ARE:
Vegan_Friendly (Not fully vegan, but appreciate it in others and can easily cook something)
LGBTQ+_Friendly
ECO_Friendly
And Just Really FRIENDLY C::
What we are NOT FRIENDLY to - racism, sexism and homophobia 🙅‍
We are also against aggression, rudeness, negativism, and when a person places himself “high” above other people.
We don't use CS as a dating site‼️
🙅‍ Do not say that our cat is fat, pregnant or that she has a small head - she is ill.
For violation of this rule, we will have to let you go without review (and we love to write great good reviews)
P L E A S E read rules before writing to us. They are on this page and in the folder with the photo-description of the house

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Let's say, we are infected by wanderlust 🦋
Spend all day at the beach - that's not our type of travel. Before we go to any place, we need to make a detailed plan, study the language, history, culture, look for everything that is possible. Therefore, we have chosen CS!
There is something that you won't get if you check into a hotel - the opportunity to see the city through the eyes of locals. And this is exactly what we need.
We want to collect people's stories, see every city from all sides, make new friends (maybe even lifelong friends) and sharing experiences. Our aim is no more, no less: to visit all corners and meet guests from all over the World!

Interests

• animals
• birds
• arts
• writing
• photography
• lgbt rights
• vegetarian
• anime
• chess
• traveling
• alpinism
• snorkeling
• skiing
• snowboarding
• extreme sports
• cosmetology
• ecology
• history
• mountains
• filmmaking
• dance
• hooping
• sloths
• cosplay
• climbing
• alcohol
• collecting
• postcrossing
• journaling
• positive thinking
• runnig
• sharks
• yoga and meditation
• koalas
• deer

Music, Movies, and Books

🐨Kate:
🎹 Parents of my music taste are Trent Reznor and Bowie:NIN, Florence the Machine, Gorillaz, Garbage, imogen heap, archive, tv on radio, metronomy, lorn, the gardens, Fleece, foals, дайте танк, prodigy, наутилус, 7б, grimes, Chelsea Wolfe, P!nk, Crystal Castles, Fatboy slim, gotye, Bondage Fairies, Daughter, лед 9, RHCP, SOAD, placebo, melanie martinez, meg myers, Mumford & Sons, Twenty One Pilots, wild child, slaves, alt-j, Carter Burwell, Joy Division, ǝțâ ΛЮƂǪɃЬ, the xx, crazy town, aurora, flume, Major Lazer, moby, queen, linkin park, bjork, Ludovico Einaudi, Yann Tiersen
🎬 Das Leben der Anderen (2006) , The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Stand by Me (1986), Into the Wild (2007), On the Road (2012), Lawn Dogs (1997) , Howl (2010), Kes (1969), Romeos (2011), Capote (2005), Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010), Flipped (2010), Mysterious Skin (2004), The Mighty (1998), "Limitless" (2011)
📚 "The First Man", "The Rebel", "The Myth of Sisyphus", "The Fall", "The Stranger ", "The Plague", "Essays", "A Happy Death" /Albert Camus ; "The Secret History" , "The Goldfinch"/Donna Tartt; "On The Road", "The Dharma Bums", "Desolation Angels"/Jack Kerouac; "The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell", "The Perennial Philosophy"/Aldous Huxley; "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot"/Fyodor Dostoevsky; Dao De Jing; Essays of Schopenhauer; "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Beyond Good and Evil"/Friedrich Nietzsche; "De profundis"/Oscar Wilde; "Junkie ", "Naked Lunch"/William S. Burroughs; "Dead Souls"/Nikolai Gogol; "Cat's Cradle", "Cat's Cradle"/Kurt Vonnegut; "Tropic of Cancer","Henry Miller on Writing"/Henry Miller; "The Castle ","The Trial"/Franz Kafka; "Ulysses"/James Joyce; "1984"/George Orwell; "The flowers of evil"/Charles Baudelaire; "A Season in Hell"/Arthur Rimbaud; "Howl"/Allen Ginsberg ; "Filth"/Irvine Welsh;"Better Than Sex"/Hunter S. Thompson ; "TRANSMETROPOLITAN"/Warren Ellis

🦈Alice:
🎹 Scissor Sisters, Bonaparte, Pink Floyd, U2, Nirvana, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Sonic Youth, Adam and the Ants, Blur, Morrissey, Oingo Boingo, Bloodhound Gang, The Cranberries, Plastic Tree, BABYMETAL, Monoral, The Pillows, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Pearl Jam, Nina Simone, Oasis, Mumford and Sons, Muse, Nick Cave, Marilyn Manson, Leonard Cohen, The Kinks, Kasabian, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Eric Clapton, Eurythmics, Mars Argo, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Hozier, Adam Lambert, Panic! At The Disco, Deftones, Beck, A-Ha, The Knife
🎬 I like to watch strange and creepy movies, B-horror especially, My favourite directors are: Jan Svankmajer, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, Brian De Palma, David Cronenberg, Wes Craven, Stanley Kubrick, Park Chan-wook, etc
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , What We Do in the Shadows , The Wall , Forrest Gump , The Goonies
Manbiki kazoku (2018) , Wild (2014) The Fall (2006) , Due Date (2010), The Greasy Strangler (2016) ,
The Way (2010) , Child's Play (1988) , Everything Is Illuminated (2005), The Room (2003),
Swiss Army Man (2016) , Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) , Party Monster (2003), Tusk(2014), Taxi Driver (1976), The Social Network (2010), John Wick, Oldboy (2003), Hot Fuzz (2007), Star Wars, Donnie Darko (2001), Whiplash (2014), Trainspotting (1996), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The Thing (1982), Seven (1995), The Big Lebowski (1998), Fight Club (1999), Alien (1979)
🎈ANIME: Perfect Blue ; Mushishi ; Akira ; Papurika ; Memories ; Eternal Family ; The Animatrix ; Mind game ;
Tekkon Kinkreet ; Genius Party 1-2 ; Detroit Metal City ; Berserk ; Grave of the Fireflies ; Spirited Away ;
Whisper of the Heart ; Howl's Moving Castle ; The Wind Rises ; Nana ; Paradise Kiss ; Fullmetal Alchemist ;
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure ; FLCL ; Saint Young Men ; Serial Experiments Lain ; Mononoke ; Space Dandy ;
Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei ; Cowboy Bebop ; Tokyo Godfathers ; Millennium Actress ; Durarara!! ; Ergo Proxy ;
Naruto ; Katanagatari ; Soul Eater ; Aku no Hana ; Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture ; Cat Soup ;
🎤MUSICALS: Hedwig and the Angry Inch ; Kinky Boots ; Wicked ; Rent ; Hairspray ; Les Miserables ; Cats ; Chicago ; Matilda ; Grease ; Jesus Christ Superstar ; Hair ; The Wiz ; Funny Girl ; Cabaret ; Newsies ;
The Book of Mormon ; Dear Evan Hansen ; Be More Chill ; Hamilton ; Heathers ; SpongeBob SquarePants ;
🎈CARTOONS: The Boondocks ; Aqua Teen Hunger Force ; Daria ; Over the Garden Wall ; Gravity Falls ; Shrek ; $9,99, The Plague Dogs ; Felidae ; Watership Down ; Fritz the Cat ; Fantastic Planet ; Coonskin ; South Park ; The Triplets of Belleville ; Persepolis ; Fantastic Mr. Fox ; DISNEY movies ; PIXAR movies ; Isle of Dogs ; Anastasia ; The Boxtrolls ; The Secret of Kells ; The Prince of Egypt ; The Last Unicorn ; American Pop ; The Book of Life ; The Road to El Dorado ; The Secret of NIMH ; Song of the Sea ; Balto ; The Iron Giant ; The Land Before Time ; The Flight of Dragons ; Where the Dead Go to Die
📼TV SERIES: Flight of the Conchords ; Spaced ; Halt and Catch Fire ; Boardwalk Empire ; Scrubs ; The Sopranos ;The Mighty Boosh ; The IT Crowd ; Skins ; Breaking Bad ; House, M.D. ; True Detective ; Stranger Things ;Twin Peaks ; The Wire ; Black Books ; Monty Python's Flying Circus ; Star Trek ; The Walking Dead ; Mad Men ; Fargo ; Charmed ; Eerie, Indiana ; Xena: Warrior Princess ; Lexx ; Buffy the Vampire Slayer
🎙 PODCASTS: The Mysterious Secrets Of Uncle Bertie’s Botanarium, Alice Isn’t Dead, Welcome to Night Vale, The Adventure Zone, Lore, Critical Role, 2 Dope Queens
📀 GAMES: Overwatch, Red Dead Redemption, The Legend Of Zelda, Assassin's Creed, Undertale, Portal, Far Cry, Dark Souls, Detroit, Five Nights At Freddy's, Cuphead, Doki Doki Literature Club, Left 4 Dead, Borderlands 2, The Walking Dead, The Off, Nightmare House, Serious Sam, Outlast, Hotline Miami, Life Is Strange, BioShock Infinite, Alice: Madness Returns, Machinarium, Final Fantasy, The Last of Us, Brothers, Never alone
📚 BOOKS: "Martin Eden" - Jack London ; "The Great Gatsby", "This Side of Paradise", "The Beautiful and Damned", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" - F. Scott Fitzgerald ; "The Importance of Being Earnest" - Oscar Wilde, "Harry Potter", "The Lord of the Rings", "The Book Thief" - Markus Zusak, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" - Mark Twain, "Of Mice and Men" - John Steinbeck, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" = Douglas Adams, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, "Between Heaven and Hell" - Jon Stefansson
P.S. I am also a geek for comic books.
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These lists are far from complete. That's why we need your help. Please, Share what you adore, what you tired of listening but keep on doing it, national music, favourite books and writers, talented people and your creations with us. We are kind of addicted...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Still working on this item: all the best and cool things yet to come 🌀
Now we have a BIG Goal - to visit all regions of Russia (about 100 cities), all seas (13), some ski resorts (10), wonders (7) and anime/comic conventions/festivals. Oh, and visit Elbrus 💪🏻
So, we are now in a long and great adventure!
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✅ Kicked depression's ass
✅ Proved that soulmates exist and long distance relationships can work. Overcome Barrier - 3000km
✅ Being Awesome
✅ Were traveling a whole month with 20 kg of backpacks behind our backs. The path running for 5000 km. We lived in a tent, cooked on a fire and wrote down every day in a notebook.

Teach, Learn, Share

We try to share everything we can or have ⭐
Kate can help you with writing, give useful tips or edit your work 📝
Alice can give you information about how to choose photo and video equipment, tell about the process of filmmaking or just take an awesome picture of you 📽
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We can always offer help in languages (as far as possible), funny stories and stories about our travels and favorite places, talks about Russian culture, discussion of art in all its manifestations and share love and good emotions!

What I Can Share with Hosts

⭐ We can cook breakfast or dinner, some interesting dishes (vegetarian, spicy, Russian, Tatar, Indian or Asian cuisines) Also mix some crazy cocktails
⭐ We can help you around the house
⭐ You can expect national gifts and souvenirs from us
⭐ Good photos C::
⭐ We can go together to your favorite places in the city, but we can also be quiet and not insist on communication
⭐ Can open new artists, musicians and film directors for you
⭐ Fact: invite us = find four leaf clover. Karma will notice you, and after that you'll become incredibly lucky
⭐ We are open-minded and easy going. If you need participants in your cultural project, if you have no one to go to a strange art house movie - now you have company.
⭐ If you have always wanted to try such hobby as cosplay or visit anime\comic convention - we can help you
⭐ Good vibes, warm smiles and interesting stories

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Greece, Mongolia, Poland, Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, Russian Federation