ABOUT ME

well ... traveling can be fulfilling and exhausting at the same time... I lived on a lovely island named Taiwan for 5 years under the excuse of studying/working. It's a peculiar part of the Far East [sorry for being Eurocentric]. Their president is a woman, they are several months away from legalising same sex marriage nad they like to tease PRC aka Mainland China. Before Taipei Moscow was my home and also the starting point for hitch-hiking with my awesome crazy best friends. We used to reach the south of the country and further to the east just starting with the question: "What if...". That's how I accumulated a number of travel-stories, so exciting that i'm not sure anymore where the imagination takes over the truth.

PHILOSOPHY

om gam ganapataye namaha

Good groove and beat

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

it's fun to meet new people and make new acquaintances. The most important - to know when to stop.

Interests

Lindy hop, Traveling, Art-Shmart, Chinese Culture, Southeast Asia, hardships of the Life of Penguins and beyond, History, Literature, the brain,

• arts
• culture
• literature
• dancing
• yoga
• chess
• traveling
• music
• piano
• hiking
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

From Pushkin and Oscar Wild to Herman Hesse and Ken Kesey ... Terry Pratchet and Pelevin.

Jazz, ethnic music, reggie, funk, psychedelic rock, psytrance, embient, dub...

Lindy hop and blues.

Monty Python, Eddie Izard, Kozma Prutkov (seriously do check his quotes, full of silly wisdom)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

life is amazing itself as a phenomenon, aquatic or macro/micro cosmos life seems to be even more so... going to South Siberia to see full solar eclipse, to rave and to horse-hike was rather exciting.

Teach, Learn, Share

Counting/swearing/tongue twisting in Chinese
Lindy hop dance

What I Can Share with Hosts

Play chess and bad piano

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, Russian Federation, Taiwan