CURRENT MISSION

TRAVEL THE WORLD WHILST I'M STILL YOUNG!

ABOUT ME

A specimen of globalisation, I was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, then moved to St. Louis, US, back to Almaty, and then to London, UK.

As a result, my mentality presents an eclectic concoction: 'a bit of everything' as an acquaintance once stated.

Russian being my mother tongue, I am fluent in English and have an advanced knowledge of French. Personal qualities include self-discipline, curiosity and audacity.

PHILOSOPHY

You only regret what you don't try out in life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I wish to travel around Spain next Spring 2011 and do a language exchange with my hosts.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None as yet.

Interests

Languages, cinema, photography, fine art, music.

Throughout my life, I have dithered between the visual arts and writing as future, career paths.

As a child, I enjoyed drawing hares and rabbits, as a 9-year-old I portrayed female clothing and as a teenager – painted naturalistic portraits in the style of Art Nouveau artist, Gustav Klimt.

Throughout my undergraduate degree in English literature with French at Edinburgh University, I was particularly drawn to Modernist novels such as Toni Morrison’s Jazz, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.

On the level of music, I absolutely love listening to a wide range of eclectic bands including the classics (Sting, Annie Lennox, EBTG, Radiohead, Björk), indie (The Kooks, Razorlight, The Killers, Coldplay, Oasis, The Verve) and French music (Nouvelle Vague, MC Solaar, NTM, Serge Gainsbourg, , Air), Irish music (The Cranberries and Enya).

Lately, I have become particularly interested in independent cinema including the work of film directors such as Wong Kar-wai, Takeshi Kitano, Zhang Imou, Pedro Almodóvar.

• rabbits
• arts
• humanities
• writing
• literature
• photography
• acting
• modeling
• flying
• clothing
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• jazz
• languages
• visual arts
• language exchange

Music, Movies, and Books

Wong Kar-wai's 'Fallen Angels', Radiohead's 'Creep' and Sharon Creech's 'Walk two moons'.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching Taiwanese/Japanese actor, model and ex-singer, Takeshi Kaneshiro, in 'The House of Flying Daggers'.

Teach, Learn, Share

I agree completely wih the CouchSurfing philosophy - for sizzle my nizzle!