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I'm just a simple Russian girl, I've got vodka in my blood, so I dance with brown bears and my... hell no haha, fortunately that's not about me. I know many stereotypes about nationalities and I love to ruin them - so f ex if people think Russians r unfriendly and gloomy, I'll be the one smiling at them until my cheeks hurt, oh, and I hate vodka haha but ofc in the same time good stereotypes r only a pleasure to confirm :)
As for usual non-traveling life, I'm studying tourism in uni and working in news agency, so I have not so much free-time, but when I do, I try to get the best from it, specially during traveling.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

As I think, we r insanely lucky to be born on such a spectacular planet filled with incredible places and dissimilar people, so that it's just a crime against urself not to try to see the most of it. And it's great that more and more people r starting to think same nowadays and travel more. Now, with all planes, trains, hotels and guides it's much easier to do on one hand.. But also, on another hand, it became harder, because local people, specially in popular places, get used to tourists around them all the time and usually they aready don't want to go first for communication themselves, as it could have been before, and it's logical of them.. so most of people get only the picture of the place, that tourguides and stuff let them get.. And CS became an excellent the solution for us, it's an amazing opportunity to know a local way of life and foreign culture better
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(blablabla. short not-poetic version: just wanna meet cool people and see cool stuff. heh)

Interests

I love going to concerts and festivals, learning languages and exploring new things about different places and people. Besides going abroud I like visiting new cities in my own country too. Also I'm interested in stand-up comedy, art and various cuisines.

• arts
• culture
• concerts
• festivals
• skydiving
• history
• languages
• stand up comedy

Music, Movies, and Books

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Imagine Dragons, Arctic Monkeys.
Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, The Shawshank Redemption, Die Hard, Groundhog Day, 127 Hours.
D.Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", D.Keyes "Flowers for Algernon", C.Buckley "Thank You for Smoking", Meg Jay "The Defining Decade", A.Niffenegger "The Time Traveler's Wife", D.Pennac "La Saga Malaussène".

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

• skydiving at 14 & getting away from my mother who was mega angry about it haha
• won RHCP ticket, this was also the first time when I travelled by myself
• found an abandoned castle in Belgian woods (huge and creepy, perfect one for horror movies)
• won a scholarship to study Czech language in Prague for one month
• been at a lot of concerts of great bands like The Offspring, Three Days Grace, The Rasmus, Skillet, Theory of a Deadman.. plus a big Waterdance festival with Paul Van Dyk and stuff
• spent a day&night on a boat at Como lake during 12h nonstop scary thunderstorm (plus still managed to do the make up and my eye lines straight while this boat was shaking as fuck because of waves, this is also an amazing thing haha but only girls can understand)
• rode a camel in Sahara desert and spent a night there without a tent & looking at the sky full of stars

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, San Marino, Spain, Ukraine, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation