We are a couple from Russia, living in Nizhniy Novgorod.
Marina working as an advertising specialist. Dmitriy is an internet analyst.
We both work in a small web studio, and also have several of our projects for promotion on the Internet (school of programming for children, landscape design and others).
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When Dmitry was a student at the Faculty of Physics, he lived in Germany for one year. That was 10 years ago. Now he has resumed learning the German language and would like to practice.
Marina likes German music and culture.
Therefore, we're going to visit Germany in February 2019.
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We are a quiet couple, loving sport (skiing, swimming, walking, qigong), cooking, reading popular science literature and classics.
We love to explore new places, walk around beautiful cities, visit museums and art exhibitions.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We like meeting other people, their traditions and culture.
People rejoice at the smell of fresh baked goods, hurry home for dinner, fry potatoes or together they make dumplings. Increasingly, We are convinced that the world rests on simple happiness.

Interests

• birds
• cooking
• chinese food
• fitness
• classical music
• fishing
• kayaking
• forests
• learning languages
• museum
• nonfiction
• rafting
• qigong
• postcrossing
• walking tours
• learning english
• wushu
• classic literature
• forest walks
• take pictures
• owls
• fishing.
• cuisine of the world

Music, Movies, and Books

We like different music. It is important that it got in the mood and didn't cut the ears.
We love the sounds of nature. For example, sounds of forest, sea, birdsongs. It's making me relax )) so we like walking in the woods.
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We like dirrenet movies too. Except for the horror films.))
Our favorite films is The God Father 1-3, The Truman Show, Pride & Prejudice (1995), Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, Some Like It Hot, Angélique 1-3, Interstellar, ets.
From the series I like The Big Bang Theory, House, M.D., Game of Thrones.
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Books.
We like classical and non-fiction literature.
Favorite books is Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Count of Monte Cristo by A. Dumas, Treasure Island by Stevenson, Olesya by Aleksandr Kuprin, Angelique by Anne and Serge Golon, Razor's Edge by Ivan Efremov, The Golden Calf by Ilf and Petrov, and other books.
From non-fiction books we like The Thinker's Toolkit by Morgan D. Jones, The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli, Never Eat Alone by Ferrazzi Keith and Raz Thal, and other books.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We together successfully passed a number of competitions and won a trip to China in 2016.
Marina was an international volunteer in Romania and worked with children in school in 2018.

Teach, Learn, Share

We can teach you how to cook Russian, Chinese, Romanian dishes.
We can teach exercises from Chinese Qigong gymnastics.
Dmitriy is a fisherman and can share his experience.

What I Can Share with Hosts

We can cook Russian, Romanian, Chinese tasty delishes. For example, Russian borscht, pancakes, salad «olivier», vegetable stew, Chinese noodles with seafood, Romanian mamalyga.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Romania