CURRENT MISSION

knowing things and meeting people

ABOUT ME

I am a student of Classics (aka an enormous hellenophile), who constantly goes on tangents to Asia . Therefore love all things language, culture and history. And food. Food is a big one. So it all makes travel inevitable. Even though I don't do nearly enough of it.

I'm the person to have long, serious (and not so serious) conversations with about art, society and politics. And yet I am permanently excited about everything new I come into contact with.

Oh, and I've been dying my hair a different color every month now.

PHILOSOPHY

To listen and learn. The world is an amazing place, gorgeous in its complexity. And I live to know it, and eventually make it better through my knowledge.

No pain - no game. Best things are the hardest.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I keep having terrible ideas which sometimes materialize into fantastic plans.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Interests

- old stuff

- museums

- politics

- space exploration

- theater

- passions & perspectives

- live music (any dialogue between art and its audience is utterly fascinating, tbh)

- the sea

- pop culture and science fiction

- cats

- critical theory

- Middle East

- Central Asia

• cats
• arts
• culture
• humanities
• theater
• coloring
• dancing
• dining
• politics
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• live music
• history
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Tarantino, Kurosawa, Asian historical drama, all sorts of sci-fi, Kubrick, Tarkovsky.

Music: punk, a bunch of Russian people with guitars, Patti Smith, Death in June, folk of all sorts, Tuvan throat singing (ask me about it!).

Books: I mostly read non-fiction and sci-fi these days, all while coaxing Greeks and Romans into making sense in their original languages. But Umberto Eco, Tolstoy, Dante, Homer, Shakespeare and Solzhenitsyn will always be good. I blame Joyce for a lot of my life choices.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- stood on the top of Kamchatka's volcano chain.

- went through the entirety of Louvre (and took naps there).

- seen a play in Epidaurus.

(I just can't do one, guys.)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can give you a clue of how Russia works, explain why Classics matter, teach the little Irish step dancing I still remember, or give you a crash course on a couple of theories and authors. And drag you into loving Star Wars.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Maldives, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United States