ABOUT ME

I'm a postgrad student in my second year of Master's in Development studies. I'm originally from Russia but I had been moving around quite a lot. About two years ago I settled in Portugal.

PHILOSOPHY

Keep learning, open to new experiences, feeling and appreciating the moment

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Unfortunately, I can't accept guests right now, but I would be happy to hang out and show you around.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Few but AWESOME

Interests

People, Music, Russian classic literature, traveling, Portuguese language, kundalini yoga, meditations, mantras, vipassana, nature, ocean

• literature
• yoga
• meditation
• traveling
• music
• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Fedor Dostoevsky - Demons, Idiot, Crime and Punishment; Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One hundred years of solitude; Carlos Castaneda - Journey to Ixtlan...

S. Rachmaninov, Philip Glass, indie, folk, ethnic music, Deep forest, Xavier Rudd, Beck, Time for T, Pink Floyd, Moby, Yasmine Hamdan, kundalini mantras

Arizona dream, Caótica Ana, Good Will Hunting, The sky above Berlin, The Science of Sleep, Underground, Azuloscurocasinegro, The Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind, Moonrise kingdom, The Darjeeling Limited, Boyhood

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbing the Pico (Azores) mountain during the night and watching the sunrise from the top above the clouds in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

10 hour kundalini meditation

Following a 30+ meter whale on a 3 meter boat

Sky-diving

Teach, Learn, Share

I would be happy to help you with your Russian or teach you anything I can do (which is not much to be honest:)). I would like to practice Portuguese, Spanish, English, learn playing Ukelele and Sansula and learn cooking new dishes.

Countries I’ve Visited

Angola, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States