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Overview

  • 24 references 22 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Russian; learning English, French
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2016
  • french language teacher, russian as a foreign language te...
  • Graduated in 2016 (Ural State University), now postgradua...
  • From Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation
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About Me

Please, do notice, I'm not in Yekaterinburg till the 21st of June, so I cannot host anybody. I beg your pardon and wish you the best in your searches.

I don't exactely know what I can tell you about myself. Taking into account that I'm not very good in English language.
When I was at the University I studied literature and foreign languages I was always passionated with. But I succeded in French only (I hope so:). So I've been a teacher of French during last 10 years. Then I decided to pursue my studies and now I'm the third year postgraduate student. I study foreign literature, in particular the Flaubert's works.
I'm a very joyful person always trying to find and to learn something new (new people, new cultures, new landscapes, all sort of information and so on). But for some people I'm maybe too active cause I don't like to stay a long time at the same place and I'm always moving:)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

As I've said I'm a very active person, so I really dream to see as much of the world as I'm able to. That's why I took part at an exchange program giving me the possibility to see France (to start with:) But I was in Rennes most of the time and that's only there that I had a room to stay. I wanted to see other places and other people (as many as possible:) that's why was looking for all the possibilities to do it. And I found. I've visited some cities and even some countries thanks to this couchsurfing thing and I really think it's great. It gives you not only the possibility to travel cheaper but to learn a lot of new things, to meet a lot of interesting people and to practice your foreign languages too=) It's amazing.
I would like to meet foreigners in our city too. It will give me the sensation of travelling while I'm at home=)

Interests

Literature, voyages

  • literature
  • teaching
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

I really think that it's possible to find something interesting in every piece of music (rock, pop...doesn't matter), as for the movies I'm usually watching horror stories and thrillers just to have a little bit of emotional shock;)
As for the books...Ohhh...
A very short list:
"The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio
"Don Juan" by Byron
"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens (I'm really fond of all the Victorian literature)
"Faithful Ruslan" by Georgi Vladimov
"One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest" by Ken Kesey
"The Little golden Calf" by Ilf and Petrov
"The Inseparable Twins" by Anatoly Pristavkin
"Affinity", "Fingersmith", "The Little Stranger" by Sarah Waters
"To kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
"The Color purple" by Alice Walker
"The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink
"The Folded Leaf" by William Maxwell
"Dusty Answer", "The Echoing Grove", "The Gipsy's Baby", "A Dream of Winter", "Wonderful Holidays", "A Note in Music", "Invitation to the Waltz", "The Weather in the Streets" by Rosamond Lehmann
"The Braid" by Lætitia Colombani

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've taken part in this program of exchange:)
And in 2017 I left Russia and went to France for four months without almost any money.I don't regret it even if it was quite hard to survive=D

Teach, Learn, Share

French and Russian.
I can tell you a lot of stories about my life and experiences I had if only my English is good enough.
We'll see=)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Anything I know, any help I'm able to offer (cleaning and so on...) except of the cooking (what I usually cook is almost impossible to be eaten by nobody but me=D)

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Monaco, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Russian Federation

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