Maria Kyznetsova's Photo

Unverified Profile

  • Payment not verified
  • Phone not verified
  • Government ID not verified

Wants to Meet Up

  • Last login almost 7 years ago

Join Couchsurfing to see Maria’s full profile.

Overview

  • 0 references
  • Fluent in English, Russian; learning Spanish, Swahili
  • 26, Female
  • Member since 2014
  • student
  • The Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
  • From Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast, Russian Federation
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

I think that every person can change our amazingly impossible world. My ambition has always been to help people. Now I'm organising a centre for difficult teenagers in Moscow whose parents are drug-addicted, alcoholics or criminals. It is to open in February 2018 (streetemple.ru). But I don't want to help just locally - I wanna change the system - in 2017 I went to Africa and saw that the charity system doesn't work there properly.
I travel a lot and most times by my own. This summer I went to Italy and Spain where I was a volunteer and than I travelled to Africa, to Kenya, where I spent a month at a charity base on Victoria lake.
So you can see I'm adventurous and quite fearless:)
My best experience was staying in Ireland for a month 2 years in a row. I experienced the culture deeply and from that moment I started to seek every opportunity to find out the real culture, talk with natives, try cuisine, but not to visit just tourist attractions. I have never been on a package tour and I don't plan to do it:)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because I love experiencing new culture! I study international relations and the reason why I chose this major in university was that I've always wanted to find an answer on the question: what is happening in the world? I wanna understand global processes. And the best way to get to know some country is talking with natives - they would tell you about culture, traditions, politics, modern situation, some funny and strange details of every day life:)

Interests

  • photography
  • ecology
  • nature
  • africa
  • diving
  • charity
  • elon musk

What I Can Share with Hosts

Unfortunately, now I can't receive guests, because I live in my university's dormitory, but I can show you Moscow and its suburbs - there are very interesting but not popular ones!

Countries I’ve Visited

Azerbaijan, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Northern Ireland, Spain, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Russian Federation

Join Couchsurfing to see Maria’s full profile.