CURRENT MISSION

explore the world!

ABOUT ME

Born Russian, raised by Jewish community, educated by Korean people.

I'm resourceful, patient, inquisitive, painstaking and a little bit creative.

I am explorer and searcher. I like to explore the life, to understand, what is it for. What it has to offer. I don't want to follow the one way, because no one know where it leads to. But I love people who follows their dreams.

PHILOSOPHY

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get..." (W. Grumm).

Carpe Diem

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can be an excellent guide in Saint-Petersburg. I can help in many different ways.

Surfing helps me a lot. Sometimes I spent even more time figuring out people in the place I am going to, than roaming around cities and museums, you know.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Munich of August, 2010 + Berlin of August, 2010. Also a lot experience in South Korea in 2011. And it was magnificent. SO many people helped me out.
Then I've couchsurfed a little also in Romania previous summer.
And last December I met beautiful Xinxin and her friends, who hosted me in Beijing.
Then there was once at Norway, in a beautiful city of Oslo.

Until now I didn't have much chance of giving back the CS community by hosting people, cause I was living in dorms mainly. But hopefully soon I will get my place and we will see.

Interests

Discussions, education, lots of books, violin, St.Petersburg, friends, movies, the Beatles, Korea in general, social entrepreneurship, Asia, history, classical music, tennis, pedagogics, working in children camps, food, frisbie, opera, Hip-Hop.

• books
• dancing
• education
• dining
• cooking
• movies
• poker
• music
• classical music
• violin
• opera
• surfing
• boxing
• tennis
• teaching
• entrepreneurship
• history
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: "The Fight Club", "A walk to remember", "Love me if u dare", "Truman show", "Forrest Gump", "Cinderella man"..Books of Dovlatov, Remark, Hemingway, Feichtwanger, Zweig (I like german prose), Selinger, O.Henry, Vonnegut (I also do love American novels) and music of...the Beatles!=)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Waterskying in Seoul

Be taught by Harvard professors (not in Harvard =)

Travelled to Israel and touched the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Meditating at the Korean Buddhist temple at the sunraise

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach, how to play violin, how to chop onions without crying, how to speak russian, how to cook apple pies, how to stay on hands, how to play poker and many other. Your choice!

I love to learn too. But the first rank is learn how to dance!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Romania, San Marino, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, South Korea

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