CURRENT MISSION

Find friends!

ABOUT ME

I'm a very enthusiastic person who is easily entertained. I love learning new things and I absolutely adore meeting interesting people who can teach me things or change my mind. I'm quite opinionated but it's wonderful when someone can present me with a different view and change my opinion on something.

I study French and Russian and will be moving to St Petersburg for a year in September. I really love learning other languages so if you can teach me any of your language then that would be wonderful. I recently went to China and studied mandarin for 3 weeks so now I think I'm fluent, but otherwise my french is pretty good and my Russian and Spanish are somewhat questionable.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Currently not a great deal but I'd love to get to know a network of people so I can be more involved in the future. I'm currently living in Russia so it's kind of difficult to have people come as I can't register their visas for them.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have never experienced it myself but I know loads of people who have had wonderful experiences. I've stayed on people's sofas after meeting them in other countries so that kind of counts.

Interests

I have all sorts of interests but above all I love to travel (obviously). I love meeting new people and hearing the wonderful stories that they have to tell. I play the piano, guitar and ukulele all pretty terribly, but I am quite a good singer and love gathering people together and making music.

If anyone knows how to salsa dance then we should be friends - I'm not spectacularly good but what I love about salsa is that you don't have to be; a good sense of rhythm and the basic steps is all you need. Otherwise I love all other forms of dance and have been figure skating since I was a kid.
I'm always open to new experiences if anyone has any exciting suggestions :)

• dancing
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• hiking
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Pretty much any classic Hollywood musical, really bad Latin music and epic love stories. I like to read a lot of Russian literature since I'm studying Russian and one day hope to read it in its original language. I'm always reading something and I tend to prefer the classics but I'm open to suggestion.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seeing Lenin in Moscow was an all together bizarre and surreal experience.
Hiking into the Croatian wilderness barefoot with a crazy man I just met was pretty cool.

China: every second of my trip to China.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Russian Federation, Spain, United Kingdom