CURRENT MISSION

more joy, more communication, more sharing

ABOUT ME

I'm interested in things that bring joy: music and literature, talking with friends, hiking in the mountains and so on. I was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, lived in Munich, Germany, and now share my life between Graz and Salzburg, Austria.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like Couchsurfing very much, it's a good possibility to meet new people, feel at home in an other city and share something with other people. Basically I'm sometimes too busy and have many guests that are my friends (for example, from my home country or from Munich, where I lived). But when I have time, I like guests very much!

Interests

Photography, music (percussion), mountains, language games and so on...
Here some photos, that I've made: https://picasaweb.google.com/101078104654251358465

• literature
• photography
• music
• hiking
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

To name a few: Brodsky, Mandelstam, Cortazar, Rilke, Nossack, Lorca, Woolf, Canningham, Vvedenskij, Platonov, Boell, Ionesco, Vera Pavlova, Jack Kerouac...
Music: Tow Waits, The Doors, Devendra Banhart, Phillip Glass, Beirut, ukrainian music, rock, folk, percussion and drums, alternative, indie, some female singers (from Janis Joplin and Nina Simone to Katie Melua), some electronic (Xploding Plastix; Up, Bustle and Out and so on...) etc.
Current music at http://www.last.fm/user/manishma
Movies by Fellini, Greenaway, Lars von Trier, Muratova, Kusturica, "Amelie", "Luna Papa" and other.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Organized and conducted SprachWanderCamp :)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you Old Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, greek, cyrillic or hebrew alphabet) I can teach you how to play darbuka... it's an eastern drum :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Basically everything :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Germany, Ukraine